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November 2021

November 21, 2021

Intentional Ministries: When Congregations Are Pastors’ Worst Problem

Hi and welcome back! Lately, I've been thinking about this 2019 column by Ryan Burge....

August 2021

August 29, 2021

Megapastor Todd Elliott and the Church Mutiny

For years now, Todd Elliott and his elders have been fighting over who holds ultimate...

August 10, 2021

Kent Hovind: Arrested on Domestic Violence Charges

Hi and welcome back! The other day, we took an introductory look at a relic...

January 2021

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...

January 06, 2021

The Capitol Attack and Evangelical Leaders’ Reactions to It

Today, let me show you some reactions evangelicals had regarding the Capitol attack today --...

November 2020

November 18, 2020

Evangelical Marriages: Where Fantasy and Reality Collide

Today, let me show you how evangelicals' broken system poisons members' minds and relationships --...

October 2020

October 08, 2020

The Trump Betrayal Evangelicals Just Aren’t Talking About

Hi and welcome back! Last week, news emerged about Donald Trump mocking and belittling evangelical...

October 07, 2020

Why Toxic Christians Hate ‘Weak Christians’ So Much

Hi and welcome back! One recent topic of interest around here is the redefinition of love...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Weaponized Pet Names: Recognize This Control-Grab

Hi and welcome back! I find inspiration in the strangest places sometimes. Case in point:...

August 2020

August 21, 2020

Narcissists in the Pulpit: The Worst Advice Ever

Hi and welcome back! I recently caught this news and it blew my mind. See, apparently...

July 2020

July 28, 2020

The Dark Triad and Virtue Signaling

Hi and welcome back! Recently, a study came out regarding something of great interest to...

July 25, 2020

Biff’s Freakout Over ‘Forrest Gump’ (Helped Me Deconvert)

Today, let me tell you about the time Biff fanboyed all over the movie Forrest Gump...

July 19, 2020

Why White Evangelicals Are Freaking Out Lately

Of late, the news has been filled with stories of the most shocking and heartbreaking kinds regarding...

May 2020

May 10, 2020

Captain Cassidy and the Case of the Mother’s Day Geraniums

Whether those connections are bound to us by blood or by choice, they're what matter...

November 2019

November 30, 2019

Evangelicals: The Narcissism That Passes All Understanding

Yes, nobody loves evangelicals quite like they themselves do. And I do mean that assertion...

July 2019

July 20, 2019

Bachelorette: Why Luke Parker Thought Hannah Brown Owed Him Anything

On the reality show The Bachelorette, a Christian man lost his ever-loving mind when a woman he...

September 2018

September 13, 2018

The Red Flags I Didn’t Notice

Red flags are those in-your-face warnings that a situation could be going pear-shaped in short...

August 2018

August 09, 2018

The Worst Advice Biff Got from Christians About Marriage

If there's one thing ex-Christians in the Unequally Yoked Club know, it's that our Christian...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Meltdown of a Marriage

I've been wanting to return to the UYC lately, since I've seen new developments on...

March 2018

March 16, 2018

The Israel Obsession: An Introduction to Christian Supersessionism

When it comes to fundagelical Christianity, few things make as little sense to outsiders to...

May 2017

May 04, 2017

No, Christians. Your Churches Are Already Dead

Nowadays, many Christians act like they only run into trouble because individuals come in and...

April 2017

April 16, 2017

Ed Stetzer’s Written an Easter Post and It’s Amazingly Bad

In the grand tradition of glurge, his post not only fails spectacularly to persuade those...

April 13, 2017

Robert Bentley is (What Passes For) Big Game Now

One Christian minister rationalized the whole fiasco by claiming that Satan himself had gone a-hunting...

March 2017

March 26, 2017

The Shack: A Land Where Dreams Come True.

The Shack is one of a very long line of Christian glurge media that recreates...

October 2016

October 14, 2016

Election 2016: Trump’s Plaintive Question

Donald Trump may well have simply given up on this election. One can only hope....

October 08, 2016

Thom Rainer and His Boxes of Air

Certainly, we shouldn't be surprised that Christians, having finally figured out just how bad the...

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...

June 10, 2016

Evangelical Churn: The Fury of the Tribe

You can probably imagine that Christians aren't terribly happy about Shannon Low's deconversion. Today we'll...

June 01, 2016

Being Wrong: The Feedback Loop, Embraced

One of the greatest gifts we can get is constructive feedback from our peers and...

May 2016

May 01, 2016

Evangelical Churn and the Chain of Pain

As the religion becomes more and more extremist and polarized, we'll be seeing more and...