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July 2021

July 12, 2021

Mark Driscoll: Bullies Keep Bullying (LSP #200)

None of us thought Mark Driscoll would learn a thing after losing Mars Hill and...

May 2021

May 16, 2021

The Night My Fear of Hell Died

Today, I'll tell you what happened the night I finally lost my fear of Hell.

May 12, 2021

Gaslighting: How Dare We Expect Evangelicals to Fulfill Their Promises!

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, I alluded to the mistreatment evangelicals heap upon people who...

March 2021

March 24, 2021

Purity Culture in Calvinism: Creepiness in Overdrive

Today, let me show you the extreme emphasis of Calvinism on sexual purity -- and...

March 16, 2021

Matthew 18: How Christians Shield Abusers With ‘the Lord’s Conflict Resolution Plan’

Hi and welcome back! Hey, you know what never takes long to show itself? Toxic...

February 2021

February 14, 2021

‘Millions of Souls’: the Manipulation Tactic Christian Predators Love

Hi and welcome back! Happy Chocolate Day! We are still snowbound here at Casa Cas....

October 2020

October 15, 2020

‘Counting the Costs’ is Music to Authoritarian Ears

Before I get into the harm his suggestions do to children, I realized I needed...

September 2020

September 25, 2020

Thom Rainer’s ‘Autopsy’ Needs Churches to Totally Change Now Please

In essence, 'Autopsy' demands that evangelical churches become something besides what they are and always...

September 06, 2020

Porn and Christians: Starting Trouble For a Reason

Hi and welcome back! I guess today also represents a bit of a palate cleanser. I ran...

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...

May 2020

May 26, 2020

Fixing Evangelicals’ Broken Authoritarianism

Recently, we encountered Ronald J. Sider's 2005 evangelical classic, The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience. In...

September 2019

September 21, 2019

Harvest Bible Chapel Infighting Reveals Christianity’s Sordid Underbelly (Also, an HBC Timeline)

One of their new church branches--all the way over in Florida, no less--has been at...

June 2018

June 19, 2018

The Fruits of Complementarianism

Today, I'll show you how meaningless Greear's gestures are in the face of the SBC's...

May 2018

May 01, 2018

Paige Patterson Is Helping the SBC Out of Its Slump (LSP #40)

Paige Patterson, a bigwig with the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), gave a speech in 2000...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

A Thief in the Night: Traumatizing Children for Fun and Prophet

Sometimes I catch myself thinking that fundagelicals are, at heart, perfectly normal people who have...

December 2016

December 02, 2016

Church Discipline: Evaluating the Claims

When power-hungry people want to abuse others, and they are given the means by which...

November 2016

November 29, 2016

Church Discipline: Covenants and Contracts

Church discipline is usually initially presented to members by way of an agreement called a...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

The Predators in Plain Sight (in a Broken System)

It seems like there is a never-ending litany of miserable stories about abusers, predators, and...