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August 2021

August 05, 2021

CARM Apologetics Zingers (Are Absolutely Awful)

But I'm attached to this CARM post we'll cover today. It's just such a nonstop,...

July 2021

July 21, 2021

Let’s Play: Beach Reach Training!

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we had a refresher about Beach Reach. That's the annual...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Josh Duggar and His Entirely Unsurprising Child Porn Charges

Hi and welcome back! Last night, we got the news that Josh Duggar -- eldest...

April 18, 2021

Bespoke Spirituality: Another Try at ‘Last Ideology Standing’

This past week, we had a really good time examining Brett McCracken's post on The...

April 15, 2021

Deconversion: Brett McCracken Gets It Completely Wrong

Sure, it might seem like Brett McCracken is just insulting his tribal enemies. And he...

March 2021

March 27, 2021

The Entire Goal of Authoritarianism: Oppression of the Powerless

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday (and the day before, really), we touched on a post by...

March 06, 2021

The ERLC: In the Middle of the SBC’s Newest Slapfight

Today, let me show you how the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) is fighting...

January 2021

January 22, 2021

Afterlife: How Captain Cassidy Let Go of a False Belief

Over the past day or so, a lot of people have taken a stab at...

January 19, 2021

Beliefs vs. Behavior: Evangelicals’ Redefinition of Occam’s Razor

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, I mentioned briefly that White evangelicals' own stated beliefs regarding...

January 17, 2021

Narcissistic Rage: Of Game Admins and Presidents (LSP #175)

To borrow a phrase and wreck its meter: 'the time has come,' the walrus said, 'to...

September 2020

September 10, 2020

Christianese 101: ‘Conviction’

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

August 2020

August 28, 2020

‘Atheist Overreach’ Asks If God-Belief Is Inevitable

Now we move to Smith's third question: Is god-belief inevitable, something humans will never really...

August 14, 2020

Avoiding the Burden of Proof in ‘Atheist Overreach’

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

July 2020

July 29, 2020

Why Christianity Is So Hard to Practice

Today, let's explore why the practice of Christianity is so gosh-darned hard for 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 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....

October 2019

October 15, 2019

The Price of the Shining Wire: Evangelicals’ False Promise of Safety

When we believed, we pretended to live in perfect safety, like we curled up in...

October 08, 2019

Russell Moore Tells Us How to Fool a Monster

Monsters dwell here. One band of them might have a silly-sounding name--eh-van-jellicles. I see you...

August 2019

August 08, 2019

Lost Coercion: The Center of Christianity’s Current Decline

That cultural change was and is a loss of Christians' onetime powers of coercion. Today,...

June 2019

June 29, 2019

Complementarianism: The Fight For Their Life

The SBC's leaders deployed two main strategies: pretending to care about the abuse scandal that's...

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...

December 2018

December 19, 2018

Evangelicals: Nope, Still in Denial Over Their Decline

Recently, some irresponsible folks over at Newsweek let him and a pal blather at length about how...

October 2018

October 11, 2018

J.D. Greear Wants Southern Baptists to Become Even Creepier

Last week I mentioned offhandedly that Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) president J.D. Greear has a...

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 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...

May 2018

May 01, 2018

Paige Patterson Is Helping the SBC Out of Its Slump (LSP #40)

Paige Patterson, a bigwig with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), gave a speech in 2000...

January 2018

January 17, 2018

The Cult of “Before” Stories: A Mega-Review of Zachary King’s Testimony

Zachary King gave an extensive XM radio interview a couple of years just after becoming...

November 2017

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...

October 2017

October 25, 2017

CBMW: Why Complementarianism Fails So Dramatically.

Today we'll examine the CBMW's central conceit, complementarianism, since it informs both of their culture...

October 18, 2017

Evangelical Churn: Why Christian Leaders’ Orders Never Change

It took Christian leaders some time to recognize that yes indeed, they were facing not...