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November 2021

November 23, 2021

Pew Research: Sometimes Bad Things Just Happen

Ever since humans gained self-awareness, we've been wondering why bad things happen to us.

February 2021

February 04, 2021

The Shaky Foundation of the Pre-Trib Research Center

Recently, I ran across a group I've somehow never heard of: the Pre-Trib Research Center....

September 2020

September 22, 2020

Reducing Christian Churn By Manipulating Parents

Yes, Christians. The shameless hucksters whose livelihoods are directly tied to your contributions would really...

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...

March 2019

March 26, 2019

Evangelicals React to Their Newest Bad News

These believers in objective morality can always find a way to turn their frowns upside-down with...

January 2019

January 27, 2019

Ed Stetzer Wants Evangelicals to Just Calm Down Here

Ed Stetzer wrote a recent post seeking to reassure his tribe, the Southern Baptist Convention...

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...

June 2017

June 08, 2017

The Ongoing Crisis in Christianity Continues Apace

I thought it was hilarious that this news comes out now, amid a Gallup poll...

September 2016

September 27, 2016

NOT Looking for Group: Takeaways from the New PRRI Religion Survey

The Public Religion Research Institute just released a new study they completed about Christianity in...

May 2016

May 29, 2016

HB2: An Angry Christian Shows Us What the Real Problem Is Here

Christians these days sure do sound angry. The more right-wing the Christian, the angrier they...

February 2016

February 28, 2016

Even Going At It From the Non-Literalist Angle, It’s Still Not Credible

One of the big mistakes non-believers make--especially those who've never been believers themselves--is to assume...

November 2015

November 10, 2015

Priorities, Priorities: Freedom 2015

Sometimes when people can't possibly achieve a goal, they start setting some downright odd priorities...

November 08, 2015

To Flounce or Not to Flounce: Christians Are Starting to Admit They’ve Lost Their Culture War.

I couldn't help but notice a major shift in the tenor of how Christians are...

October 2015

October 15, 2015

The Titanic Band is Striking Up the Next Song (of Decline)

Some churches like their lights to be super-bright; some prefer their churches to be dark...

September 2015

September 12, 2015

Condoning Sin: The New Way to Judge Without Sounding Judgey

The drumbeat of hypocritical defenses of bigots-for-Jesus for their fellow bigots-for-Jesus continues as Christians continue...

August 2015

August 06, 2015

Fireproof: Hunting Bears with an Umbrella.

(This is part of our Fireproof review week--here's the review itself and here's where I...

June 2015

June 20, 2015

The SBC Still Doesn’t Get Why Nobody Likes Them Anymore

Sometimes it's hard to believe that a culture can be this blind to its own...

May 2015

May 26, 2015

The Loyalty Test and Ireland’s Referendum

They ache for the legitimacy of having a good reason to believe--all while having no...

May 19, 2015

Excuses, Excuses: Two Ways Christians Delude Themselves about the Pew Study.

But what this study did do was to shine a line on two particular, self-servingly...