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November 2021

November 03, 2021

What Evangelism Success Claims Really Mean

Hi and welcome back! Recently, I caught this story from Baptist Press. It concerns a church claiming...

October 2021

October 27, 2021

How Christian Authoritarians Excuse Their Leaders’ Hypocrisy

Hi and welcome back! The other day, I showed you a story exposing the hypocrisy...

October 22, 2021

Mike Stone and the Red Flag of Hypocrisy

Hi and welcome back! A few days ago while recuperating, I tippy-tapped out some thoughts...

October 20, 2021

The Flocks Still Don’t Like Evangelism: Reset Button Edition

Hi and welcome back! Not long ago, I ran across this opinion piece. It involves...

October 15, 2021

Ronnie Floyd Just Quit His Powerful Role With the SBC

Ronnie Floyd, easily one of the most powerful men within the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC),...

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...

September 15, 2021

How Toxic Christians Are Destroying Christianity From the Inside

Hi and welcome back! Recently, I ran into a few different articles on Christian sites...

September 14, 2021

Baptism Sunday: Evaluating Christian Claims

Today, let's check out the SBC's success claims regarding this most recent Baptism Sunday --...

September 12, 2021

The SBC’s Big Plan: Sowing Division to Poach New Members

Yesterday, we talked about how strange Ronnie Floyd's VISION 2025 initiative seems. He wants the...

September 11, 2021

Ronnie Floyd is Still Pushing ‘Vision 2025’ For Some Reason

Hi and welcome back! The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is still panicking over their sharp...

August 2021

August 19, 2021

Christianese 101: Translating Evangelists’ Success Stories

Hi and welcome back! Sometimes, it's fun to reveal the real meaning of all the...

July 2021

July 28, 2021

Beach Reach: Training the Ingroup to Hate the Outgroup

So, what is the goal of Beach Reach? Today, I'll show you. I'll warn you,...

July 27, 2021

Beach Reach: Followup as Fake Friendship

Hi and welcome back! We're quickly approaching the end of our Beach Reach training. Now,...

July 25, 2021

Beach Reach: Atheists and ‘Cultural Catholics,’ Oh My!

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about Beach Reach. That's the short-term missionary...

July 24, 2021

Beach Reach Training: Properly Deploying Small Talk

Today, let's see how earnest SBC evangelists learn to use transactional small talk to open...

July 22, 2021

Beach Reach Training: How to Craft a Testimony (And Why)

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about Beach Reach. That's a short-term mission...

July 21, 2021

Let’s Play: Beach Reach Training!

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we had a refresher about Beach Reach. That's the annual...

July 20, 2021

Beach Reach: What It’s Really About

Today, we'll check out an overview of Beach Reach to see what it's really about...

July 17, 2021

The SBC’s 2021 Book of Reports Is Out!

As is our wont each year, we now turn our gaze to the 2021 Annual...

July 08, 2021

Sermongate: The Seriously Misplaced Priorities of the Evangelical Old Guard

In the various reactions to this mini-scandal that we've seen, possibly the worst hot takes...

July 01, 2021

James MacDonald Is Out of the Evangelical Crony Network

Today, let me show you what the evangelical crony network is saying (or rather, not...

June 2021

June 23, 2021

QAnon: Ed Litton Wants Southern Baptists to Stop Listening to ‘Fables’

Today, let's explore Ed Litton and his strange opinion of QAnon, and then let's see...

June 18, 2021

#SBC21: Meet Randy Adams, the FOURTH SBC Candidate

I'm sure Randy Adams thought the SBC's election this week would run along similar lines...

June 16, 2021

Ed Litton Just Became the New President of the SBC

Today, let's look at the SBC meeting, the election of Ed Litton, and just the...

June 13, 2021

Russell Moore Wants Authoritarianism, Just Without Scandals

I had not yet learned that authoritarianism itself precludes sincerity or faithfulness in Christianity. Individual...

June 12, 2021

Russell Moore: Not Really a Hero

In these two letters, Moore tries very hard to portray himself as a man of...

June 11, 2021

The Entirely Unsurprising Sexism That Russell Moore Revealed

Yesterday, we talked about the sheerly vicious racism on display in these leaked letters. Today,...

June 10, 2021

The Sheer Racism in the Russell Moore Letters

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about the two leaked letters from Russell...