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April 2020

April 25, 2020

A Taste of Accountability for Jim Bakker

His sky is falling, and we're here for it. Today, let me show you what happened to...

April 20, 2020

A Wingnut Meeting Gets Completely Out of Hand in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #138, Ch. 21)

In Chapter 21, Frank Peretti skipped merrily across a whole bunch of plots, giving us a little...

April 11, 2020

How Religion Hijacks the Weirdness of Liminal Spaces (Pre-Easter Post)

I want to dive into the way that liminal spaces affect us--and how they've impacted humanity's view...

April 10, 2020

The Heartbreak of the Teen Zealot

Recently, I saw something that downright dismayed me: a young evangelical who's very upset about...

April 09, 2020

Evangelistic Success in China Amid the Pandemic

Lately, I've noticed a distinct narrative developing in fundagelicalism. It involves claims of wild evangelism...

April 04, 2020

Soulwinners: Score More Jesus Sales In This Pandemic!

Hard times really separate good people from bad apples. That rule applies double with Christians,...

March 2020

March 03, 2020

J.D. Greear Is Back With a Brand Old Rap (About the SBC)

Recently, J.D. Greear, the president of this venerable fundagelical denomination, admitted to that decline being...

February 2020

February 24, 2020

Confirmation Bias and Angelic Meddling in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #130, Ch. 17)

In this installment, we discover how Frank Peretti's tribe thinks angels create coincidences--and how they...

February 06, 2020

A None Who’s Done Grades an Apologetics Lecture

Hi and welcome back! A while ago, we looked at fundagelical mommy blogger Natasha Crain....

February 03, 2020

An Exorcism in Christian Fantasy-Land in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #128, Ch. 15)

In this installment, a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ wages honest-to-goodness spiritual warfare--and he wins, because of course...

January 2020

January 16, 2020

How the Toronto Blessing’s Influences Created Chaos

Most folks know well that evangelicals live in a haze of alternative facts. Several times...

January 13, 2020

A Repulsive Urban Legend Retold in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #125, Ch. 14)

Hello and welcome back to our off-topic chat series, Lord Snow Presides! Today, we return...

January 09, 2020

The Muddle of Influences That Created the Toronto Blessing

Today, I'll show you both the obvious influences and the undercurrents that went into the...

January 04, 2020

The Tangled Web: Rick Joyner, Todd Bentley, Lakeland, Toronto, and More

Today, let me introduce some of the major players of the Toronto Blessing--and how they...

December 2019

December 19, 2019

More Christian Lies: ‘We’re So Different From Everybody Else!’

It's as accepted a trope as claim about the total-for-realsies earthly existence of Jesus himself....

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...

December 05, 2019

Chick-Fil-A Meltdown: Evangelicals Are Giving Us the Most Glorious Meltdown EVER!

Before, I thought Mike Huckabee's 2015 tantrum over rainbow Doritos was the most awesomely funny...

November 2019

November 04, 2019

The Big Church Meeting in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #115, Ch. 10)

Finally, we enter the big scene Peretti set up as the big conflict from the...

October 2019

October 21, 2019

The Tempting of Pastor Hank in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #113, Ch. 10)

I find this book fascinating still, even after all these weeks of reading and reviewing...

October 17, 2019

I Bet You Had No Idea It Was This Easy to Become an Apologist Like Natasha Crain

Today, I'll introduce you to Natasha Crain and show you how she went from a...

October 12, 2019

How Elizabeth Warren Made Christian Culture Warriors Lose Their Minds (This Time)

Culture warriors are losing their poor little minds lately over something Senator Elizabeth Warren said yesterday in...

October 10, 2019

Christian Evangelists Keep Asking the Wrong Question

Apologists take as a given that once they demonstrate that gods in general might exist,...

August 2019

August 13, 2019

Loudly-Christian Businesses And The Company They Keep

A while back, I showed you some disturbing information about businesses that trumpet how very...

August 10, 2019

Hillsong Songwriter Marty Sampson Has Left the Jesus Building

Marty Sampson, a songwriter for the Christian band Hillsong, recently announced his deconversion on his...

August 05, 2019

Training Spiritual Warriors in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #102, Ch.6)

Today, Lord Snow Presides over the overwhelming arrogance of spiritual warfare--and its surprisingly earthly origins.

July 2019

July 29, 2019

Spiritual Warfare in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #101, Ch.6)

Chapter Six contains a pair of vignettes about demonic attacks on people--and how those attacks...

July 19, 2019

Josh Harris Is Kissing His Marriage Goodbye

Coming as it did right near the height of evangelical dominance in America, courtship culture...

June 2019

June 22, 2019

Meet the Christians Who Are HOPPING MAD About ‘Good Omens’

This time around, our brave widdle culture warriors flew into a lather over a television...

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 17, 2019

The Not-So-Casual Sexism in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #95, Ch. 1-5)

Written at the height of the Satanic Panic back in the 1980s, this novel provides...