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August 2017

August 03, 2017

Burnout: Pastors’ Wives Confess All

Today I'll show you what this problem looks like, what the women dealing with the...

July 2017

July 20, 2017

No, No, Wait, Everyone: A Progressive Christian Shares the Real Reason Why Christianity is Failing

Today we've got a progressive Christian who's here to give us the real skinny about...

June 2017

June 14, 2017

The Big Miracles, Explained

Come join me as I take you on a Big Miracle Safari today.

April 2017

April 18, 2017

Stages of Grief at the End of Apologetics

I've been coming into contact with a lot of different ideas about apologetics itself as...

March 2017

March 23, 2017

Christian Opportunism in Action

In comments last time we met up, we learned about yet another set of those...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Needs Must When the Culture War Drives

We are in the midst of a vast change in morality that is every bit...

November 2016

November 20, 2016

The Handbook: Intervention Conventions

We're fast approaching the holiday season, and as fun as holidays are supposed to be,...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

Why People Don’t Like Christians, According to a Christian (Real or Not Real Edition)

Located on a site called Bible Reasons and called "25 Reasons Why The World Hates...

September 04, 2016

The Oncoming Bus Gambit, and Why It Fails.

This response is something I'm starting to call the Oncoming Bus Gambit. Chances are you've...

July 2016

July 14, 2016

Through a Bubble, Darkly: 7 Things I Wish I Could Get Through To Thom Rainer

We've been talking lately about how, when Christians write about non-Christians, they often end up...

June 2016

June 29, 2016

The Really Scandalous Part of “People to Be Loved”

That's quite a lot of deception both in and out of one person, but it's...

April 2016

April 06, 2016

PRATTling in Christianese.

Quite a few Christians cherish and use these failed, long-debunked arguments--and they are not interested in...

November 2015

November 05, 2015

Airline High School: Evangelicals’ Captive Audience

Airline High School of Louisiana has a problem. Airline is a public school that has...

September 2015

September 27, 2015

Leopards Don’t Change Their Spots: Kim Davis Edition

Kim Davis is from a family of super-duper-fervent Christians in a super-duper-religious town, but she...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

What Josh Duggar Shows Us About How Not to Apologize.

Here is what a real apology looks like, and notice, please, that the response of...

April 2015

April 12, 2015

The Unwashed Heathens of “God’s Not Dead”

Today I want to talk about how this movie presents non-white and/or non-Christian characters. As...

April 03, 2015

The Unequally Yoked Club: Relationships in God’s Not Dead

(Please consider all of my posts about this movie to be spoilerrific.) Last week I...

March 2015

March 25, 2015

God’s Definitely Dead, and Mortally Embarrassed (God’s Not Dead) (SPOILERS)

"God's Not Dead" is an incredibly inept and horrible movie, and this is my full...

February 2015

February 04, 2015

The Handbook: Building a Worldview Around Consent

One of the biggest shifts I had to process in my thinking was my understanding...

October 2014

October 11, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: The One Pillar.

Welcome back, R2Ders! We're heading into the Unequally Yoked Club today. One thing I was...