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July 2020

July 26, 2020

John Stott and the Evangelism Goalpost He Moved

Evangelical leader John Stott gave the flocks permission to move the evangelism goalpost so they...

June 2020

June 03, 2020

How Evangelicals Use ‘the Endtimes’ to Disobey Jesus

As with everything they do, evangelicals embrace the Endtimes for a reason. And that reason...

May 2020

May 14, 2020

An Overview of ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience’

Recently, I got my hands on a classic evangelical book from 2005, The Scandal of the...

April 2020

April 10, 2020

The Heartbreak of the Teen Zealot

Recently, I saw something that downright dismayed me: a young evangelical who's very upset about...

March 2020

March 07, 2020

When Optimism Becomes Toxic Positivity

Lately, we've been talking about where positive thinking goes bad. Multi-level marketing schemes (MLMs) sparked...

February 2020

February 22, 2020

The Lessons Authoritarians Learn

There are a lot of authoritarian groups out there. And they're far more alike than they are...

February 18, 2020

More Terrible Christian Marriage Advice in the Unequally Yoked Club

Years ago, I started a long blog series called The Unequally Yoked Club. It aimed to...

January 2020

January 07, 2020

Todd Bentley Gets By With A Little Help From His Friends

Last time we met up, I showed you a recent development in the evangelical world:...

January 02, 2020

Christian Lies: We’re So BRAVE For Being Christian!

Oh my gosh, y'all, who in the world are these brave warriors? Who are these...

December 2019

December 03, 2019

The Crybullies of Christianity (Don’t Understand Themselves)

Last time we met up, I showed you a survey that revealed what evangelicals believe...

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 07, 2019

The Jezebel Spirit Manifests in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #111, Ch. 8)

If you couldn't tell, this book just fascinates me--not because of its writing or story,...

September 2019

September 03, 2019

How Christians Use Promises of Peace To Dehumanize

But peace is way more than a nice feeling that most Christians don't really understand....

August 2019

August 05, 2019

Training Spiritual Warriors in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #102, Ch.6)

Today, Lord Snow Presides over the overwhelming arrogance of spiritual warfare--and its surprisingly earthly origins.

July 2019

July 25, 2019

Respect: The Song And Dance That Makes Complementarians Content

Respect is such an important concept to understand when one discusses this ultra-authoritarian, misogynistic flavor...

June 2019

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...

April 2019

April 04, 2019

Living Behind A Mask

A recent scandal erupting on social media has shed some light on complementarianism and why...

March 2019

March 14, 2019

Everything You Ever Wondered About Spiritual Warfare

The notion of spiritual warfare isn't new at all in fundagelicalism. In fact, it's a go-to...

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...

February 2019

February 26, 2019

Achieving a Happy Family, Sort Of, in Christianity’s Cult of Family

Like all marketing hype, though, this promise is largely imaginary, and fails far more often...

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...

December 2018

December 01, 2018

The Trainwreck Continues: Christian Responses to That 6,000-10,000 Closings Figure

We've been talking lately about the rash of church closures in America. A figure of...

November 2018

November 24, 2018

John Allen Chau and the Priorities of a Soulwinner

Already, Christians herald John Allen Chau as a martyr to their holy cause. And he...

November 01, 2018

Why Christians Need Satan to Be An Idiot

When I was a Christian, every single Christian I knew had two completely contradictory opinions...

August 2018

August 18, 2018

Why It Matters: That Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report

This week, the world reeled at a shocking report issued by a grand jury in Pennsylvania....

August 06, 2018

The UYC: Spectacularly-Terrible Advice from The Gospel Coalition (LSP #54)

Lord Snow Presides over a very telling--and disastrous--list of suggestions from a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ culture...

July 2018

July 24, 2018

Ambassadors, Lords, and Salespeople

Evangelicals' answer to this trilemma is painfully easy to discern. I'll show you what these...

July 09, 2018

The UYC: How Marital Compatibility is (Mis)Defined (LSP #50)

In toxic Christianity, couples determine compatibility in a totally different way than most other folks...

July 05, 2018

The Unequally Yoked Club: How Marriage Became a Cult in Toxic Christianity

Today, we're going to look at why Christian leaders push so hard to get their...

July 03, 2018

The Unequally Yoked Club: The 2018 Gritty Reboot

Some years ago, I ran a series called the Unequally Yoked Club (UYC). It was one...