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February 2021

February 08, 2021

Bobbie Houston and the Casual Cruelty of Evangelicals (LSP #178)

Bobbie Houston, the co-founder of the Hillsong megachurch, released an audiobook in 2003 that used...

January 2021

January 29, 2021

The Bryan Loritts Scandal Reveals the Principles of Power

Hi and welcome back! Recently, I showed you the latest scandal hitting evangelicals. In this one, it turns out...

January 10, 2021

It’s a Little Too Little and a Little Too Late for Evangelicals’ Credibility

Yes, I've seen some evangelical leaders wringing their hands about evangelicals' supposedly-lost credibility. But as...

January 08, 2021

The Evangelical Reckoning That Will Never Happen

After Donald Trump supporters attacked the nation's Capitol Building on Wednesday, I noticed some evangelical...

January 07, 2021

Matt Chandler Needs Everyone to Redefine Love His Way

Recently, an evangelical megachurch pastor and abuser-for-Jesus, Matt Chandler, whined to an evangelical audience that...

December 2020

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...

November 2020

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....

August 2020

August 26, 2020

‘Atheist Overreach’ and Being Good Without Gods

In this book, the author expresses great concern over "how human societies might best be...

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 11, 2020

Why Jerry Falwell Jr. CAN’T ‘Be a Good Boy’

Hi and welcome back! The other day, I heard a quote that sounded for all...

July 2020

July 03, 2020

Why CaringWell Won’t Help the SBC

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we looked at what the leaders of the Southern Baptist...

June 2020

June 04, 2020

How J.D. Greear’s ‘Evangelism Ethos’ Is Going For the SBC

Hi and welcome back! Today, our presses got stopped cold by some breaking news from...

May 2020

May 31, 2020

Pastoral Restoration: A Beloved Evangelical Farce

Pastoral restoration involves punishing and humiliating a male evangelical leader enough to mollify the flocks. Both...

April 2020

April 25, 2020

A Taste of Accountability for Jim Bakker

His sky is falling, and we're here for it. Today, let me show you what happened to...

February 2020

February 05, 2020

Willow Creek: Missing ALL the Red Flags

Last week, yet another sex scandal broke out in right-wing Christianity. But this one erupted...

February 01, 2020

Paige Patterson’s Having a Tough Time, Y’all

A while ago, we looked at Paige Patterson, a Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leader who...

January 2020

January 07, 2020

Todd Bentley Gets By With A Little Help From His Friends

Last time we met up, I showed you a recent development in the evangelical world:...

November 2019

November 02, 2019

Catholic Leaders: Totally Corrupt Financially, Too!

As if one huge, long-running, top-level scandal wasn't enough for Catholics, they've now got a...

October 2019

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...

September 2019

September 10, 2019

Jerry Falwell Jr: What He Does in the Darkness

Today, let me show you just how insulated Jerry Falwell Jr. is from reality, and...

July 2019

July 02, 2019

The Hypocrisy of TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Employers Matters

A funny-weird, rather than a funny-haha experience provoked today's post. It sent me on a...

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 27, 2019

#SBC2019: Where Man-Pain Substituted for Change

These SBC leaders settled on a strategy long familiar to secular women: they acted very,...

June 25, 2019

#SBC2019: The SBC Pretends to Care About Sex Abuse

The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) just had its big Annual Meeting this year. There, they...

June 20, 2019

Ed Stetzer’s Curious Ties To James MacDonald (Are Hurting Their Religion)

Since we've been talking about the SBC's decline generally lately, it fits in quite well....

June 18, 2019

Beth Moore at #SBC2019: The SBC Pretends to Care About Her Past Abuse

It's hard to tell which is worse: the sex-abuse scandal as it is, or the...

June 11, 2019

The SBC’s Sex-Abuse Scandal Is Getting Worse

The 'Abuse of Faith' scandal happened right on the heels of the denomination's other sex-abuse...

June 01, 2019

Back When the SBC Issued a Million-Baptism Challenge

Last year, the SBC managed to slightly slow down its tanking baptism rate. It reminded...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

Abuse of Faith: The SBC Continues to Circle the Wagons

Generally speaking, he and the entirety of the SBC's top leadership knew. They simply avoided...

January 2019

January 10, 2019

Authoritarians, Fear, and the Culture Wars

They couldn't be more obvious in their fear if they sang their messages while playing...