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November 2021

November 15, 2021

Before Evangelicals and Fundamentalists Fused Together (LSP #218)

Essentially, the evangelicals I knew back then thought fundamentalists were dangerous zealots and wingnuts who'd...

May 2020

May 20, 2020

How Al Mohler Accidentally Highlighted Evangelicals’ Idolization of Literalism

In an interview, you see, Al Mohler defended slavery as a practice. He did it for...

May 07, 2015

A Tale of Two Christianities

There really are two types of Christian in this world, and one of them hates...

March 2015

March 13, 2015

The Vast Comfort of Literalism

Ever wonder how someone converts into fundamentalist or evangelical Christianity? Here's how I ended up...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

A Monopoly on Manliness

One of the genuinely weirdest turns that fundagelical Christianity has taken in recent decades has been...

February 01, 2015

When It’s Not Funny

Last time we talked, we covered a straw man essay written by a Baptist pastor,...

November 2014

November 20, 2014

When Is It Wrong? (Never.)

Hi, y'all! Are you getting ready for my favorite holiday of the entire year? We...

September 2014

September 14, 2014

Drilling Down

Today I saw this piece in Religion News Service about how some evangelicals are still...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

Divine Wooing: It’s So Romantic

(CN: Religious abuse, domestic violence, stalking.) Today we're going to talk about one of the...

July 21, 2014

The Night My House Was Exorcised, Sort Of

Have you ever had a really embarrassing deed haunt you for years? This is one...

July 17, 2014

Spiritual Warfare: What’s It Good For? (Absolutely Nothing!)

Remember furries? Those are the kids who think that they're "really" animals in human form....

July 12, 2014

A Legend In Their Own Minds

When someone desperately wants to have status, there are really only a couple of ways...

June 2014

June 24, 2014

Sometimes I Feel Like I Dodged a Hail of Bullets.

I'm reading this piece about IHOP and feeling a shiver go down my spine every...

June 22, 2014

When Facts Don’t Sway, the Rape Threats Come Out

A bunch of seemingly unrelated scandals and gaffes broke out in the Christian community around...

June 20, 2014

Birthing Pains

I wanted to talk about something kinda metaphysical today. See, sometimes I get this overwhelming...

June 14, 2014

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: Engaging Me.

Welcome back! Last time we talked about how Christians share many qualities in common with...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

That Crazy Little Thing Called Love

A few days ago, I was watching a Christopher Hitchens video. In it, a Christian...

May 29, 2014

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: Stop Defending Slavery

Seriously, folks, we're going to have to be really careful about how we present atrocities...

May 19, 2014

Exiting Far East: Falling Apart

As I look back at my experience living abroad, brief as it was, one thing...

May 14, 2014

Exiting Far East: The Outsider Test.

Today we're going to talk about that startling moment when I realized that I applied...

May 05, 2014

Exiting Far East: On Being Immodest.

I was finally in Sapporo, Japan, and in the earliest days of the trip. It...

May 03, 2014

Exiting Far East: Fish out of Water

It's hard for me now to even think about all the different ways that I...

May 01, 2014

Exiting Far East: Stage-Setting.

I once had an apartment in Sapporo... Sorry, I share with Betty White an unreasonable...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Differing Conversations (We Can’t Both Be Right, Part II)

Have you ever talked to somebody who tells you one thing but tells someone else...

April 20, 2014

Dividing to Conquer

Welcome back. We've talked here before about Doug Phillips, uber-patriarch and onetime leader of the...

April 14, 2014

How Not to Be a Compelling Witness

It's almost a pity that most of modern Christianity has this major hard-on for evangelism...

April 04, 2014

A “God’s Not Dead” Retrospective: The Day I Debated the M.Div. Dean of My College

The backlash continues against that stupid movie God's Not Dead (which is at this point...

March 2014

March 25, 2014

Recipe for a Fundamentalist

Welcome to Captain Cassidy's Kitchen! Today we are going to make one of the season's...

March 23, 2014

The Cosmic Freakout Over Cosmos

I shouldn't be surprised anymore about how poorly fundamentalists understand the word "faith." They don't...

February 2014

February 28, 2014

When Christians Do the Right Things for the Wrong Reasons

I've written before about Christians I think who are kinda getting that whole "love your...