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June 2017

June 21, 2017

The Perilous Position of the Sales-Minded Christian

There are a whole bunch of Christians who don't like to evangelize. This reticence drives...

June 20, 2017

Lord Snow Presides Over Arizona’s Complete Lawlessness. (#11)

A new first has happened in America: an openly atheistic woman has been elected to...

June 18, 2017

The God-Shaped Wound

For many years, Christians have been trying to convince everyone that human beings have a...

June 16, 2017

Monster Trucks in the Nightlife: The Ballad of the Bad Christians

Here, then, is the brutal truth about both evangelicalism and Bad Christians.

June 11, 2017

The SBC’s Decline Continues (Wanna Hear a Riddle?)

In the immortal words of Cobra Bubbles, things have indeed gone very wrong for them.

June 08, 2017

The Ongoing Crisis in Christianity Continues Apace

I thought it was hilarious that this news comes out now, amid a Gallup poll...

June 06, 2017

Ken Ham’s Creationists Know Exactly How to Reverse Evangelical Churn

Ken Ham says that he totally thinks that families that do not already buy into...

June 01, 2017

Church Planting Amid Iron Chariots.

This ancient story is way too potent of a reminder to Christians that their omnipotent...

May 2017

May 30, 2017

Lord Snow Presides #9: Ed Stetzer’s New Gig

With everything going on in Baptist-land lately, I'm just surprised he lasted this long. Lord...

May 27, 2017

The Power of Prayer in Christian Marketing

Last time we met up, we were talking about Christian marketing and why it sucks....

May 26, 2017

Why Christian Marketing Sucks — And Why It Must

As one might expect, the leaders in the religion are doing their best to combat...

May 20, 2017

You Lost Me: Why Nothing Can Change

This past week we were talking about the 2011 book You Lost Me by David...

May 16, 2017

You Lost Me: How to Create Change Without Changing a Thing

There's another magic spell he wants to teach Christians to cast here, and that spell...

May 13, 2017

You Lost Me: No No, Y’all, David Kinnaman is All Wrong.

To say the least, we haven't been, um, impressed by it a whole lot. And...

May 11, 2017

You Lost Me’s Push for Discipling: Hold On, Y’All, He Knows Exactly What to Do

David Kinnaman's central idea is that The Big Problem Here is that modern churches aren't...

May 09, 2017

You Lost Me: And How They Lost Us

David Kinnaman always couches Prodigals' disbelief in terms of how they came to disbelieve. The...

May 08, 2017

Lord Snow Presents #7: Signs of Decline.

For a long time now we've been talking about evangelical churn and the strange and...

May 06, 2017

You Lost Me: And You Will Keep Losing Me

This book is a good example of how wishful thinking and self-deception makes Christians incapable...

May 04, 2017

No, Christians. Your Churches Are Already Dead

Nowadays, many Christians act like they only run into trouble because individuals come in and...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

Ed Stetzer’s Written an Easter Post and It’s Amazingly Bad

In the grand tradition of glurge, his post not only fails spectacularly to persuade those...

March 2017

March 22, 2017

Evangelical Churn: A Tidal Wave of False Reasons

Sometimes we're surrounded by something before we realize just how much of it there is....

March 15, 2017

When the Question Isn’t “Are They Hateful?” But Rather “Are They Hateful ENOUGH?”

Russell Moore, one of the current presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), is discovering...

March 01, 2017

And Oh! They Cry Out, “Fix Me, Fix Me!”

Another Christian has a bunch of ideas that he thinks will totally fix Christianity. Unfortunately,...

February 2017

February 25, 2017

Ken Ham’s Bubble Maintenance

Creationist charlatan and serial liar-for-Jesus Ken Ham did a little bubble maintenance this week, and...

February 19, 2017

Sorry, Bible. Christians Just Aren’t That Into You

I recently ran across this gobsmackingly self-deluded blog post from fundagelical group The Gospel Coalition...

February 17, 2017

Changing Course in a Broken System

Sometimes I see something happening in the real world and compare it to how things...

February 03, 2017

Why They’re Not Ambassadors

Last time we met up, we were talking about the differences between ambassadors and salespeople--and...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Needs Must When the Culture War Drives

We are in the midst of a vast change in morality that is every bit...

January 25, 2017

What Christians Get Wrong About “Objective Morality.”

I've been noticing for some time that Christians' morality appears to be shifting--very subtly, but...

January 12, 2017

Love in the Time of Culture Wars

Sometimes it's downright painful to see a Christian skate right up to the edge of...