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April 2015

April 28, 2015

The End of a(nother) Church

Another church is closing--part of an overall trend in America. What does it mean?

February 2015

February 27, 2015

The Handbook: The Second Big Mistake Apologists Make

Last time we talked about apologists, we talked about their first big mistake: that they...

October 2014

October 02, 2014

Their Way or the Highway

My friend Neil's been talking lately over at Godless in Dixie about some brouhaha going...

August 2014

August 04, 2014

Consolidation and the Dwindling of Belief

I saw this really interesting piece about "church cannibalism" and it ties into something else...

June 2014

June 02, 2014

Oh Noes! A Baptism Drought!

One group of Christians, however, is finally coming to grips with their own drop in...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

The Sand’s Just Fine.

When Rachel Held Evans wrote her beautifully moving piece in the wake of the World...

April 04, 2014

A “God’s Not Dead” Retrospective: The Day I Debated the M.Div. Dean of My College

The backlash continues against that stupid movie God's Not Dead (which is at this point...

March 2014

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,...

November 2013

November 15, 2013

Things The Bible Doesn’t Talk About (Like PTSD)

It's been another of those weeks where this blog seems to have an embarrassment of...

November 13, 2013

Why is Christian Media So Awful?

When I listened to the kinds of Christian music that I'd loved once after deconversion,...

May 2013

May 13, 2013

Leopards Don’t Change Their Stripes

Many Christians proclaim that without firm belief in their god, nobody can possibly be a...

May 11, 2013

Facts and Fictions.

It seems to me like modern culture has long forgotten what "evidence" and "proof" involves....