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May 2018

May 05, 2018

Paige Patterson: When Halfway There Isn’t Good Enough

Poor Paige Patterson. The fallout continues for this domestic-violence-advocating Southern Baptist leader. Why, the SBC...

April 2018

April 27, 2018

How Confrontational Evangelism is Failing Christians, and Why It Doesn’t Matter.

Christian evangelists act, in a very real sense, as salespeople of their ideology. And they...

April 16, 2018

Lord Snow Presides Over the Newest Evangelism Failure (LSP #38)

The recent incursion of Christian trolls we've seen around here highlights the failure of evangelism...

February 2018

February 22, 2018

The Awakening of the Young

Young people are awakening to their own power and agency, and that is very bad...

December 2017

December 29, 2017

Evangelical Churn: The Real Goal vs. the Stated Goal

In Christianity, we're seeing this situation come into clearer and clearer focus regarding their stated...

December 22, 2017

When the Tribe Abandons Him

Not a whole lot of people join Christianity nowadays; usually the movement is from Christianity to...

December 20, 2017

Herd Immunity for the Christian Bubble

The denizens of broken systems tend to take very poorly to critics outside the group--and...

December 08, 2017

The Rights of Consumers in the Post-Christian Marketplace

We're going to look more closely at one important aspect of the spiritual marketplace: would-be...

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 05, 2017

Conditional Acceptance and Bigotry-for-Jesus

Christians use something called conditional acceptance to try to maintain control over a culture that...

September 2017

September 22, 2017

The September 23rd Endtimes Scare and the Problem with Wingnuts

This Endtimes scare has gotten quite a lot of pushback from actual astronomers--and from some...

August 2017

August 03, 2017

Burnout: Pastors’ Wives Confess All

Today I'll show you what this problem looks like, what the women dealing with the...

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...

March 2017

March 22, 2017

Evangelical Churn: A Tidal Wave of False Reasons

Sometimes we're surrounded by something before we realize just how much of it there is....

March 16, 2017

Leaving the Validation Carousel.

Things happen in your head the day you successfully make the switch from craving external...

March 03, 2017

Ingroups, Outgroups, And Where We See Ourselves

It can get a little dizzying to keep up with what Christians mean by much...

February 2017

February 24, 2017

Agent Milo and the Case of the Useful Idiot

I've noticed a great many people remarking upon the downfall of alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos...

September 2016

September 17, 2016

The Breaking of Bread

I've always been fascinated with how people construct communities for themselves. Certainly many atheists have...

September 12, 2016

Being Wrong, Gloriously

We might laugh about or mock Christians who have entirely too high an estimation of...

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...

August 11, 2016

Love Sonnets from the Christianese

Christians' coded communication can backfire around someone who knows what it means. I touched on...

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...

January 2016

January 17, 2016

The Broken System and the Nature of Power

A social system becomes broken when it starts causing harm to people both in and...

June 2015

June 26, 2015

Heads in the Sand: Equal Marriage Edition (“We Lost This One”)

There's one part of the country that is not happy about the recent SCOTUS decision,...