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March 2020

March 03, 2020

J.D. Greear Is Back With a Brand Old Rap (About the SBC)

Recently, J.D. Greear, the president of this venerable fundagelical denomination, admitted to that decline being...

February 2020

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...

October 2019

October 12, 2019

How Elizabeth Warren Made Christian Culture Warriors Lose Their Minds (This Time)

Culture warriors are losing their poor little minds lately over something Senator Elizabeth Warren said yesterday in...

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 17, 2019

HumanGate: Al Mohler’s Emotional and Weak-Minded Amnesia

Poor Al Mohler. I can only imagine that his fragile emotional state, caused by his...

September 07, 2019

Al Mohler Objectified Women As Usual, But This Time He Faced Backlash

Last week, Al Mohler did something he usually does: he objectified and literally dehumanized women....

August 2019

August 22, 2019

The False Peace I Found in Christianity (Hurt Me)

The promise of peace is nothing but yet another false promise that leads to yet another bait...

July 2019

July 27, 2019

Bachelorette: Why Luke Crashed Hannah’s Rose Ceremony

Today, let me show you how an authoritarian, complementarian Christian man collided with the concept...

July 16, 2019

Why Complementarians Hate No-Fault Divorce

Complementarianism is a sexist ideology held by mostly right-wing Christian culture warriors. One major plank...

July 11, 2019

The Power Struggles in TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Churches (Explain a Lot)

If you ever found yourself teetering on the fence about this religion, then this post...

July 06, 2019

Thom Rainer’s New Gig (Won’t Help His Religion)

Thom Rainer just retired from LifeWay. Immediately afterward, he plunged full-time into his new old...

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 13, 2019

#SBC2019: Distraction Tactics Hit Their Peak

This time around, the SBC's 2019 Annual Meeting has a slightly different flavor. And some...

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...

May 2019

May 25, 2019

A First Look at the SBC’s 2018 Numbers (OW OW OW OW)

Before their convention every year, SBC leaders like to offer up some sneak peeks at...

May 23, 2019

What Thom Rainer Teaches Pastors About Anonymous Complaints

Today, I offer up a recent blog post from none other than Thom Rainer, one...

May 16, 2019

Above Reproach: What Jesus Isn’t Telling the SBC

A bunch of TRUE CHRISTIANS™ accidentally revealed that reindeer game recently with a study called...

May 04, 2019

The Fatally-Flawed 2019 Discipleship Survey

Today, we examine what's wrong with the 2019 Discipleship Pathway Assessment survey. Its flaws tell...

May 02, 2019

Newsflash: Christians Still Don’t Like Evangelizing

This week, the big news in evangelicalism concerns evangelicals, who still don't really like evangelizing....

March 2019

March 28, 2019

Why People Rightly Distrust Evangelical Research

In fact, this study demonstrates exactly why we should not trust any studies designed, led, or...

March 09, 2019

Thom Rainer Feels Super-Duper-Optimistic About 2019

Today, we've got a new essay from Thom Rainer to consider. In it, he expresses...

March 07, 2019

Keeping Up Appearances in the Cult of Family

Lately, we've been talking about authoritarian Christians' new marketing push: the Cult of Family. Only these...

February 2019

February 21, 2019

The Cult of Family and Its Failure to Launch

Do the most extremist, authoritarian flavors of Christianity really have a monopoly on the best marriages...

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...

February 12, 2019

Abuse of Faith: J.D. Greear is SO BROKEN, Y’ALL!

This investigative report has revealed that the SBC power structure allows abuse, protects abusers, and...