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January 2021

January 05, 2021

A Crisis of Conscience for a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Clerk

Hi and welcome back! Gosh, being a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ is so hard nowadays. Not only...

January 03, 2021

Why Jesus-ing Harder Won’t Help Evangelicals At All

Recently, we've been checking out a ten-year prediction from the Internet Monk, Michael Spencer, about...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

How Ravi Zacharias Got Away With Sex Abuse for YEARS

Hi and welcome back! To top off the dumpster fire of 2020 comes a story...

December 27, 2020

What ‘Christ’ Really Adds to Christmas

They're 1000% certain that we're missing out on the full meaning of Christmas because we...

December 26, 2020

Jerry Root Offers Up the Worst Evangelism Advice I’ve Seen Lately

Hi and welcome back! We find today's story in a recent Christmastime post from Christianity Today....

December 23, 2020

Sex-Abuse Scandals in the SBC: Don’t Ever Believe They Care

Don't ever believe that any big-name evangelical leaders really want to fix anything. Today, I'll show you...

December 22, 2020

The SBC’s Internal War Over Racism Has Only Intensified

Hi and welcome back! Recently, I showed you the newest schism threatening to tear the...

December 19, 2020

Racism, the SBC, and Critical Race Theory: A New War Brewing

Hi and welcome back! I'm just endlessly fascinated with the sheer dysfunction of the Southern...

December 18, 2020

A Mean God for Mean People: Performative Piety Fools No One (Else)

Today, let me show you why nobody will ever convince evangelicals to be less cruel:...

December 14, 2020

No, Virginia, the Nativity Won’t Change Evangelicals (LSP #170)

Today, Lord Snow Presides over yet another evangelical trying -- and failing -- to get...

December 04, 2020

Rejoice: Ben Jack Has Solved Evangelicals’ Hypocrisy Problem!

Today, let's check out how evangelist Ben Jack sees hypocrisy as a hindrance to sales...

November 2020

November 27, 2020

Madison Cawthorn: How Evangelism Success Claims Work

Hi and welcome back! Recently, I showed you an interview with a young Republican fundagelical...

November 17, 2020

How Evangelical Men Try to Divorce-Proof Their Marriages

Evangelicals in general absorb all kinds of bad advice about relationships, but today I want to show...

November 11, 2020

Rod Dreher: Fretting About Evangelical Men’s Boners — er, Civilization’s Future

Today, the ever-hilarious Rod Dreher clutches his pearls over young women's lack of interest in...

November 10, 2020

Why Evangelicals Can’t Follow Their Own Rules About Sex

Today, let's wonder together why evangelicals' sex rules give believers so much trouble.

November 05, 2020

Carl Lentz: Why He Committed ‘Moral Failures’

Yesterday, Hillsong, a massive international megachurch complex, fired one of their lead pastors, Carl Lentz....

October 2020

October 27, 2020

Evangelical Leaders Have Finally Noticed QAnon

Recently, I've seen a number of evangelical leaders frantically trying to squash QAnon conspiracy theories...

October 20, 2020

The Fantasy and the Reality of Evangelical Youth Groups

Of late, we've been checking out the hilarious, utterly-lacking-in-self-awareness ramblings of aspiring youth evangelist Greg...

October 03, 2020

Well, Well: LifeWay Is SUING Former CEO Thom Rainer

Today, let me show you what's going on with the LifeWay lawsuit against Thom Rainer,...

October 02, 2020

The Real Tipping Point of Christian Dominance (Already Came and Went)

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we talked about Thom Rainer's assertion in 2018 that American...

September 2020

September 14, 2020

Deconversion: Christian Parents Did NOTHING Wrong! (LSP #157)

Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Lord Snow Presides! Lately, we've been...

September 11, 2020

Christianese 101: ‘Biblical’

Hi and welcome back! Recently, we started talking about a new Christian book that promises...

September 10, 2020

Christianese 101: ‘Conviction’

Hi and welcome back! For a long time now, I've studied Christianese. That's the jargon that...

September 06, 2020

Porn and Christians: Starting Trouble For a Reason

Hi and welcome back! I guess today also represents a bit of a palate cleanser. I ran...

September 05, 2020

Study About Disagreeable People Says: Nice Guys DON’T Finish Last

Hi and welcome back! Today also represents a palate cleanser. A new paper has come...

September 04, 2020

Pew Research Surveyed Christians’ Attitudes Toward Casual Sex

Hi and welcome back! I promised you a palate cleanser yesterday, and here it is!...

August 2020

August 31, 2020

The Truth About Christianity

Hi and welcome back! As many people do now, I feel disquiet and dread when...

August 27, 2020

Utility vs. Truthfulness in ‘Atheist Overreach’

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about Christian Smith's 2019 book, Atheist Overreach. In it,...

August 25, 2020

Jerry Falwell, Jr. and the Morality That Created Him

Jerry Falwell, Jr. is a product of his culture, completely and through-and-through. Today, let me...

August 17, 2020

The Conversion of Bernice Krueger in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #154, Ch. 36-37)

Hi and welcome back! We turn our attention now to Frank Peretti's 1986 novel, This Present...