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June 2019

June 27, 2019

#SBC2019: Where Man-Pain Substituted for Change

These SBC leaders settled on a strategy long familiar to secular women: they acted very,...

June 25, 2019

#SBC2019: The SBC Pretends to Care About Sex Abuse

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) just had its big Annual Meeting this year. There, they...

June 18, 2019

Beth Moore at #SBC2019: The SBC Pretends to Care About Her Past Abuse

It's hard to tell which is worse: the sex-abuse scandal as it is, or the...

June 11, 2019

The SBC’s Sex-Abuse Scandal Is Getting Worse

The 'Abuse of Faith' scandal happened right on the heels of the denomination's other sex-abuse...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

Abuse of Faith: The SBC Continues to Circle the Wagons

Generally speaking, he and the entirety of the SBC's top leadership knew. They simply avoided...

February 12, 2019

Abuse of Faith: J.D. Greear is SO BROKEN, Y’ALL!

This investigative report has revealed that the SBC power structure allows abuse, protects abusers, and...

February 09, 2019

Abuse of Faith: The SBC Braces For a Long-Overdue Reckoning

Tonight, two Texas news outlets prepare to unleash a major report regarding an epidemic of...

August 2018

August 23, 2018

The Broken System: Change From Within (Is Impossible)

Through members' own effort, goes the logic, they can return the system to its original...

August 21, 2018

The Broken System: How Predators Keep the Prey in the Fold

Predators gravitate toward these systems because they are a reliable source of the prey they...

June 2018

June 23, 2018

J.D. Greear Knows How to Solve the SBC’s Misogyny Problem, Too!

Poor J.D. Greear. Dude literally just got elected the Grand High Lord Poobah of the...

June 19, 2018

The Fruits of Complementarianism

Today, I'll show you how meaningless Greear's gestures are in the face of the SBC's...

June 05, 2018

Al Mohler: No, It’s Our Critics Who Are Wrong.

Today, I'll show you the techniques he used to manipulate his flocks. These are common...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

Why the Christian Right’s Sex Scandals Are Only Increasing With Time

Another day, another bunch of scandals erupting out of fundagelical Christianity, and yet more predators...

February 2018

February 04, 2018

No Low is Too Low: #MeToo Edition

This time the guy digging frantically for an even lower spot in my estimation of...

November 2017

November 17, 2017

Roy Moore and How His Excuses Fail.

Roy Moore was simply acting out the fantasies of every red-blooded Southern fundagelical man--and now...

November 15, 2017

A “Second Glance” at the Subculture That Produced Roy Moore.

When the accusations began flowing against bigot-for-Jesus Roy Moore, that movie showed us exactly why...

November 12, 2017

Roy Moore and the Real Virtues of a Broken System

Roy Moore is someone who benefits from reaching the top of the ladder of a...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

A Safe Guess for Anona United Methodist Church

If my blog were a sort of News of the Weird of Christianity--and I suppose...

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 02, 2017

The Root of All Evil in the Broken System

One verse most fundagelicals know well is 1 Timothy 6:10: the line about how money...

March 2017

March 04, 2017

The Gaze of Dead Children Follows Me Today

These stories are related. They both reflect an endemic issue within Christianity: its broken systems'...

April 2016

April 24, 2016

Tony Waller and the Cruel Dilemma

Do you folks remember Anthony Waller? He's a youth pastor I discussed about a year...

February 2016

February 05, 2016

A Shell Game Played With Christian Predators

Christian leaders have a terrible problem on their hands, and it's only getting worse every...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

Jordan Root and Yet Another Child Abuse Scandal Erupting in Christianity Right Now.

We're still reeling from the Duggar sex abuse scandal, but on the heels of it...

March 2014

March 03, 2014

Bill Gothard: To Catch a (Christian) Predator

I wanted to introduce y'all to Christian leader Bill Gothard. He's in the news lately...

March 02, 2014

Sex Scandals: I Don’t Think This Is How Jesus Loved the Little Children

Meet 35-year-old sex offender Robert David Wright, who was a youth pastor. You're already cringing,...

November 2013

November 15, 2013

More Matt Pitt Weirdness (And It is WEIRD!)

This needed attention and it needed it right now. It's about Matt Pitt, who continues...