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October 2021

October 08, 2021

How the SBC Isn’t Handling Its ‘Abuse of Faith’ Megascandal

Two Texas newspapers released their 'Abuse of Faith' expose of this scandal in February 2019....

October 07, 2021

Mark Lanier, Paige Patterson’s Attorney, Seeks to Sway SBC Now

Today, I just want to show you Mark Lanier and his past with the SBC...

September 2021

September 30, 2021

Abuse of Faith: The SBC Looks as Guilty as Sin Lately

The top leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) are haggling as hard as they...

February 2021

February 13, 2021

Ravi Zacharias and His Strategy of Abuse

Earlier this winter, investigators released their initial report: yes, the accusations were completely credible. Then,...

December 2020

December 29, 2020

How Ravi Zacharias Got Away With Sex Abuse for YEARS

Hi and welcome back! To top off the dumpster fire of 2020 comes a story...

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...

July 2020

July 02, 2020

Russell Moore Reveals the SBC’s ‘Abuse of Faith’ Strategy

Recently, I wondered what they've been up to on that front. What's changed since we...

June 2020

June 16, 2020

Accusations of Abuse That Didn’t Age Well (LSP #146, TPD Ch. 26)

Hi and welcome back! I got so excited about writing about SCOTUS yesterday that I...

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 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 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...

October 2015

October 17, 2015

Rape Culture and the Sentencing of Pastor G

Rape culture is the term we use to describe a society in which sexual aggressors...

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...

July 2015

July 10, 2015

Judging Hypocrites

I've been talking about Christian hypocrites for years, so I already knew that Christians like...

June 2015

June 18, 2015

3 Reasons Why We Aren’t Shutting Up About the Duggar Abuse Scandal.

Supporters of Josh Duggar and his parents continue to abound, so I thought it might...

June 07, 2015

The Voice of False Submission and the Duggar Sisters’ Interview.

Michelle said in her breathy, wondering, affectation of a little-girl voice, "an.... agenda???" That voice...

June 04, 2015

A Parade of Lies: The Duggar Interview Review

I always despised the Duggar parents, but now I actively hate them thanks to this...

June 02, 2015

Awareness is Growing About the Duggars’ Insincerity

Even some folks in the right-wing Christian world are waking up to the understanding that...

May 2015

May 24, 2015

Josh Duggar: Excusing the Inexcusable

The scandal around Josh Duggar has had a few days to ferment. News sites that...

May 21, 2015

Josh Duggar and the Anatomy of a Not-Pology

By now you've likely heard about the scandal rocking the right-wing conservative Christ-o-sphere: Josh Duggar,...

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...

December 2014

December 15, 2014

How the Purity Myth Destroys Lives

We've talked about the Purity Myth off and on here, and even knowing what I...

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...

July 2014

July 12, 2014

A Legend In Their Own Minds

When someone desperately wants to have status, there are really only a couple of ways...

June 2014

June 22, 2014

When Facts Don’t Sway, the Rape Threats Come Out

A bunch of seemingly unrelated scandals and gaffes broke out in the Christian community around...

April 2014

April 20, 2014

Dividing to Conquer

Welcome back. We've talked here before about Doug Phillips, uber-patriarch and onetime leader of the...

April 18, 2014

Permission Slips.

Greetings and salutations! Once again, a warm welcome to the new folks coming in from...

November 2013

November 15, 2013

More Matt Pitt Weirdness (And It is WEIRD!)

This needed attention and it needed it right now. It's about Matt Pitt, who continues...