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December 2021

December 01, 2021

The ‘Christian Love’ Flows for Deconstruction

I recently ran across an opinion post about deconstruction. Her post was meant to be...

November 2021

November 12, 2021

Toxic Christians’ Substitutionary Atonement for Decency

Toxic Christians have a lot of similar methods of easing their consciences and keeping themselves feeling smugly...

November 10, 2021

How Christian Music Soothed Chris Pratt

Recently, Chris Pratt suffered a super-bad, awful, no-good, terrible week which he entirely deserved, in my...

September 2021

September 15, 2021

How Toxic Christians Are Destroying Christianity From the Inside

Hi and welcome back! Recently, I ran into a few different articles on Christian sites...

August 2021

August 05, 2021

CARM Apologetics Zingers (Are Absolutely Awful)

But I'm attached to this CARM post we'll cover today. It's just such a nonstop,...

July 2021

July 15, 2021

George Barna Has a New Fear-Based Marketing Attempt

Yesterday, we checked out the illustrious career of George Barna. He makes a good living...

June 2021

June 26, 2021

Why Disgraced Pastor James MacDonald Keeps Gatekeeping Christianity

Today, let me show you how James MacDonald attacked one of his critics, Julie Roys,...

May 2021

May 02, 2021

Gospelbound Embraces the False Myth of Persecution

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about a podcast called Gospelbound. It's a...

April 2021

April 28, 2021

Gospelbound: Reducing Churn Through More Intense Indoctrination

Yesterday, we covered the first prong of Gospelbound's revitalization strategy: forcing compliance through church discipline. Today,...

April 18, 2021

Bespoke Spirituality: Another Try at ‘Last Ideology Standing’

This past week, we had a really good time examining Brett McCracken's post on The...

April 16, 2021

Deconversion: No, Actually, We Don’t Need to Try Every Flavor First

Today, let me show you the Christian salesman who insists we must try his product before...

April 15, 2021

Deconversion: Brett McCracken Gets It Completely Wrong

Sure, it might seem like Brett McCracken is just insulting his tribal enemies. And he...

March 2021

March 18, 2021

Evangelicalism: Where Aaron Long Learned to Destroy His Temptations

Hi and welcome back! In the wake of yet another mass shooting, unsettling and unsurprising...

February 2021

February 26, 2021

Christians’ Narrative Around Deconversion Isn’t Helping Them

I recently caught an interesting YouTube video by Seth Andrews ('The Thinking Atheist'). It shows...

February 19, 2021

Sheila Wray Gregoire Doesn’t Realize That Evangelicals Already HAVE a “Jesus-Centered Sexual Ethic”

Lately, evangelicals are understandably much abuzz about their most recent batch of sex scandals. In...

January 2021

January 09, 2021

The Christian Infighting Over the Capitol Attack Has Begun

Hi and welcome back! In recent days, we've been discussing the shocking insurrection attempt that...

January 05, 2021

A Crisis of Conscience for a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Clerk

Hi and welcome back! Gosh, being a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ is so hard nowadays. Not only...

January 03, 2021

Why Jesus-ing Harder Won’t Help Evangelicals At All

Recently, we've been checking out a ten-year prediction from the Internet Monk, Michael Spencer, about...

October 2020

October 26, 2020

Spiritual Warfare: Translating the Christianese (LSP #163)

With their grandiose language, spiritual warriors certainly sound impressive. Ah, but if you lift the...

October 16, 2020

Counting the (False) Costs of My Teen Zealotry

As we reviewed evangelist Greg Stier's three totally-surefire teen evangelism strategies, many of us got...

September 2020

September 21, 2020

‘Christian Rock’ During the Satanic Panic (LSP #158)

Hi and welcome back! I've wanted to feature this topic for a while now, and...

September 18, 2020

Why Hardcore Christians Hate ‘Build-a-Bear’ Christians

I'm long familiar with battles between the more-hardcore-than-thou adherents of a religion and what they...

September 14, 2020

Deconversion: Christian Parents Did NOTHING Wrong! (LSP #157)

Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Lord Snow Presides! Lately, we've been...

September 08, 2020

‘Christian Love’ Flows As Jen Hatmaker Divorces

Hi and welcome back! I know nobody's surprised when we talk about evangelical hypocrisy. They're...

August 2020

August 20, 2020

Deconversion: How Reality Drained My Faith Pool

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been talking about a Christian book called Atheist Overreach....

August 17, 2020

The Conversion of Bernice Krueger in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #154, Ch. 36-37)

Hi and welcome back! We turn our attention now to Frank Peretti's 1986 novel, This Present...

August 03, 2020

American Gospel: Christ Alone (Red-Hot Mega-Review!)

Yesterday, we watched American Gospel: Christ Alone. In this 2018 documentary, Christians bicker and argue about...

July 2020

July 18, 2020

Ed Stetzer: A ‘New Normal’ That Reveals WAY Too Much About Christianity’s Decline

Today, let me show you Ed Stetzer showing us exactly why evangelicals are in decline --...

May 2020

May 30, 2020

Evangelical Gatekeeping (Makes Their Numbers Look Prettier)

Hi and welcome back! As I look back at the carnage of our recent book...

May 08, 2020

Promise and Peril: Lyman Stone’s Galaxy-Brained Solutions to Decline

Yesterday, we examined a big report by conservative culture warrior Lyman Stone on behalf of...