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June 2020

June 21, 2020

Unchurched: Friendship Evangelism, Lee Strobel Style

Yesterday, I offered you an overview of the personal-level strategy he suggests, friendship evangelism. Today, I...

June 09, 2020

Lee Strobel’s Actual Product: Seeker-Sensitive Churches (#9-12)

Hi and welcome back! I woke up super-late with a migraine and had to take medication...

April 2020

April 01, 2020

The Idaho Earthquake Is NOT A Sign of the Endtimes, Sorry

Just as I was wrapping up my post yesterday evening, my state experienced a very...

March 2020

March 26, 2020

Christian Leaders and the Non-Solutions They Love

There's an insidious side to these streams of unreasonable demands. Today, I'll show you what authoritarians'...

January 2019

January 27, 2019

Ed Stetzer Wants Evangelicals to Just Calm Down Here

Ed Stetzer wrote a recent post seeking to reassure his tribe, the Southern Baptist Convention...

July 2018

July 30, 2018

The SBC Might Finally Be Addressing Their Sex Scandals, Except Not (LSP #53)

Today, I'll show you what they might be finally getting right on this topic, and...

June 2018

June 21, 2018

A Tale of Two Non-Solutions: The NEW New Plans to Fix Evangelical Churn

While we wait for the big Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) 2018 Annual Report, I thought...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

Why the Christian Right’s Sex Scandals Are Only Increasing With Time

Another day, another bunch of scandals erupting out of fundagelical Christianity, and yet more predators...

June 2017

June 18, 2017

The God-Shaped Wound

For many years, Christians have been trying to convince everyone that human beings have a...

June 06, 2017

Ken Ham’s Creationists Know Exactly How to Reverse Evangelical Churn

Ken Ham says that he totally thinks that families that do not already buy into...

May 2017

May 16, 2017

You Lost Me: How to Create Change Without Changing a Thing

There's another magic spell he wants to teach Christians to cast here, and that spell...

May 11, 2017

You Lost Me’s Push for Discipling: Hold On, Y’All, He Knows Exactly What to Do

David Kinnaman's central idea is that The Big Problem Here is that modern churches aren't...

April 2017

April 25, 2017

Preston Sprinkle Still Doesn’t Get It

So Preston Sprinkle went into the overflowing hopper of Christians Who Think They're Saying Something...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Elevating the Meaningless Blather–I Mean, the Dialogue

Christians' bigotry has cost them countless adherents as well--adherents who take with them when they...

July 24, 2016

A Match Made in Hell for People to Be “Loved.”

Preston Sprinkle, in his book People to Be Loved, expresses some truly atrocious ideas. Arguably...

July 14, 2016

Through a Bubble, Darkly: 7 Things I Wish I Could Get Through To Thom Rainer

We've been talking lately about how, when Christians write about non-Christians, they often end up...

July 03, 2016

A Cold First Option for People to Be “Loved”

We've been talking for a while now about right-wing Christians' culture war against LGBTQ people,...

June 2015

June 20, 2015

The SBC Still Doesn’t Get Why Nobody Likes Them Anymore

Sometimes it's hard to believe that a culture can be this blind to its own...