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August 2018

August 23, 2018

The Broken System: Change From Within (Is Impossible)

Through members' own effort, goes the logic, they can return the system to its original...

August 21, 2018

The Broken System: How Predators Keep the Prey in the Fold

Predators gravitate toward these systems because they are a reliable source of the prey they...

August 18, 2018

Why It Matters: That Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report

This week, the world reeled at a shocking report issued by a grand jury in Pennsylvania....

August 12, 2018

2018 SBC Annual Report: The Sign of Things to Come

Here are the overarching trends in the SBC right now, how they're responding to criticism...

June 2018

June 19, 2018

The Fruits of Complementarianism

Today, I'll show you how meaningless Greear's gestures are in the face of the SBC's...

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...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

Why the Christian Right’s Sex Scandals Are Only Increasing With Time

Another day, another bunch of scandals erupting out of fundagelical Christianity, and yet more predators...

April 03, 2018

Frank Page Shows Us What a Mighty Fine Clean Cup the SBC Has (LSP #36)

Well! Welcome back from Easter and our Prodigal Planet special! I wanted to segue briefly to...

January 2018

January 10, 2018

Evangelicalism Is Now Officially Recognized as a Tainted Brand

Christianity is a brand of sorts, and slowly--oh, very slowly!--the religion's leaders are starting to...

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 16, 2017

LSP #14: Mark Driscoll’s Big Priorities, and Also Demons

Today Lord Snow presides... over Mark Driscoll and his weird priorities. And demons. Can't forget...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

A Safe Guess for Anona United Methodist Church

If my blog were a sort of News of the Weird of Christianity--and I suppose...

May 2017

May 02, 2017

The Root of All Evil in the Broken System

One verse most fundagelicals know well is 1 Timothy 6:10: the line about how money...

April 2017

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 04, 2017

The Gaze of Dead Children Follows Me Today

These stories are related. They both reflect an endemic issue within Christianity: its broken systems'...

January 2017

January 04, 2017

Kim Burrell’s Homophobia

Kim Burrell is a gospel singer and minister who wants us all to know that...

August 2016

August 18, 2016

A Racist TGC Post and the Not-Pology For It

In its scant 140-ish characters, this carefully-crafted, polished tweet manages to check off just about...

June 2016

June 11, 2016

Rescuing a Sinking Ship: People to Be “Loved”

If it wasn't resulting in endless abuse and cruelty against innocent people worldwide, there'd be...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

3 New Marketing Slogans for the Religious Right

I mentioned being very very helpful the other day, and today I want to demonstrate...

April 2016

April 24, 2016

Tony Waller and the Cruel Dilemma

Do you folks remember Anthony Waller? He's a youth pastor I discussed about a year...

August 2015

August 02, 2015

Why “Separate but Equal” Doesn’t Work

Whenever you hear about any institution or group that specifically singles out one group to...

June 2015

June 09, 2015

Jordan Root and Yet Another Child Abuse Scandal Erupting in Christianity Right Now.

We're still reeling from the Duggar sex abuse scandal, but on the heels of it...

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...

May 22, 2015

Christian News Sites’ Reactions to Josh Duggar’s Molestation Confession.

Only one site featured the story of Josh Duggar's pedophilia. I was surprised at which...

May 14, 2015

Youth Pastors: Harbingers of the End

Tony Waller's story illustrates an overarching trend and a deeper problem in the religion: Christianity...

November 2014

November 15, 2014

A Tale of Two Megachurches

One of the reasons I tend to be so optimistic about America's future is that...

April 2014

April 08, 2014

The Death of the (Non-Existent) Christian State.

Count on Christians to mourn the death of something that never existed in the first...

March 2014

March 03, 2014

Bill Gothard: To Catch a (Christian) Predator

I wanted to introduce y'all to Christian leader Bill Gothard. He's in the news lately...

March 02, 2014

Sex Scandals: I Don’t Think This Is How Jesus Loved the Little Children

Meet 35-year-old sex offender Robert David Wright, who was a youth pastor. You're already cringing,...

January 2014

January 08, 2014

The Gripping Hand.

There's a science-fiction novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle called The Gripping Hand. In...