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September 2021

September 18, 2021

Why Christian Dishonesty Matters

Christians' dishonesty around their lack of evidence matters way more than that lack of evidence...

July 2021

July 29, 2021

Manga Messiah: Another Bait and Switch Evangelism Attempt in Japan

Out of everywhere evangelicals seek to make sales, Japan might be one of their most...

July 27, 2021

Beach Reach: Followup as Fake Friendship

Hi and welcome back! We're quickly approaching the end of our Beach Reach training. Now,...

October 2020

October 16, 2020

Counting the (False) Costs of My Teen Zealotry

As we reviewed evangelist Greg Stier's three totally-surefire teen evangelism strategies, many of us got...

June 2020

June 26, 2020

Unchurched: Lee Strobel’s Semi-Sales Reveal the Truth

I noticed something recently about the way he talks about sales success, and now I...

June 25, 2020

Unchurched: Some of Lee Strobel’s Best Friends

Today, let's look at Lee Strobel's totally real atheist friends -- and how his own...

June 21, 2020

Unchurched: Friendship Evangelism, Lee Strobel Style

Yesterday, I offered you an overview of the personal-level strategy he suggests, friendship evangelism. Today, I...

June 20, 2020

Unchurched: An Overview of Friendship Evangelism

Today, I'll show you what friendship evangelism is -- and what lies its practitioners tell...

June 18, 2020

Unchurched: Lee Strobel’s Action Plan (Doesn’t Work)

In Unchurched, Lee Strobel sought to teach his tribe about those strange space aliens who weren't part...

June 07, 2020

How That Lee Strobel List Indoctrinates Evangelicals (#5-8)

Hi and welcome back! Recently, we began examining a book by evangelical apologist and toxic...

June 05, 2020

Lee Strobel’s Many Lies About ‘Unchurched Harry and Mary’

Hi and welcome back! Recently, one of our dear friends, Kevin, presented us a list...

December 2019

December 26, 2019

Christian Lies: ‘Absolutely Everybody Needs Our Product!’

By now, Christians consider axiomatic the notion that literally everyone on the planet needs their...

December 10, 2019

Magic Christians Seek the Perfect Sales Pitch in ‘Only God Can’

Today, let me show you what the Perfect Sales Pitch looks like--and why Magic Christians...

November 2019

November 20, 2019

Only God Can: The Huge Official Mega-Riffic Review!

We're kicking off our review of the 2017 Christian movie Only God Can. In this...

November 16, 2019

Evangelicals, Their Witness, and Why It’s Falling Apart Lately

Hi and welcome back! Off and on, I've mentioned a bit of Christianese that's key...

September 2019

September 16, 2019

The Stolen Evangelism Strategy in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #108, Ch. 8)

Hi and welcome to our off-topic chat series, Lord Snow Presides! In this series, we've...

January 2019

January 14, 2019

52 Reasons to Dread Invitations to Church (LSP #77)

This awful list shows us some important things about the people who made the list,...

December 2018

December 15, 2018

When Evangelists Play Deceptive Games

Last time we met up, we covered a book about evangelism called Soul-Winning Made Easy, by...

November 2018

November 19, 2018

Ed Stetzer Wants Christians To Be Super-Creepy This Holiday Season (LSP #69)

We've been talking this year about Christians' push for increased evangelism. In that vein, today I...

September 2018

September 04, 2018

Beach Reach: One of the Most Hilarious Evangelism Strategies Ever

Today, I'll show you what Beach Reach is, some of its history, and why it's...

August 2018

August 02, 2018

Intentional Evangelism: Yay, ANOTHER Doomed Attempt to Save Christianity

Today, I'll show you what this trendy phrase means, and why Christian leaders have latched...

June 2018

June 26, 2018

About That “Dear Facebook Friend” Image Going Around Lately

I'm not a fan of the open-letter format of social media posting or blog post....

June 16, 2018

Yay, Another Innovative Christian Non-Solution

Another day, another non-solution for life's universal daily struggles. This particular non-solution comes to us...

May 2018

May 01, 2018

An Introduction to “Jesus Aura” Evangelism (And How it Fails)

We've been talking this past week about evangelism in Christianity and how it fails. Christian...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

How Confrontational Evangelism is Failing Christians, and Why It Doesn’t Matter.

Christian evangelists act, in a very real sense, as salespeople of their ideology. And they...

April 16, 2018

Lord Snow Presides Over the Newest Evangelism Failure (LSP #38)

The recent incursion of Christian trolls we've seen around here highlights the failure of evangelism...

February 2018

February 13, 2018

Captain Cassidy’s (Big Ol’ Huge) Deconversion.

In this blog's first year, I spent a few months outlining all the different elements...

February 09, 2018

A Landscape Littered With Failed Shortcuts

For some stuff, there's no substitute for doing something the long way for a result...

December 2017

December 08, 2017

The Rights of Consumers in the Post-Christian Marketplace

We're going to look more closely at one important aspect of the spiritual marketplace: would-be...

December 03, 2017

The Love/Life Seminar and the Politics of Fixing People

Last time we covered what the seminar's creators thought were the five levels of friendship...