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October 2017

October 18, 2017

Evangelical Churn: Why Christian Leaders’ Orders Never Change

It took Christian leaders some time to recognize that yes indeed, they were facing not...

September 2017

September 10, 2017

A Celestial Extortionist and His Sycophants

Even I couldn't have predicted the extent of that opportunism, however--though I could easily have...

August 2017

August 24, 2017

The Exploitation of the Most Important Girl in the World.

Not long ago, we watched the Christian exploitation-fest that was I'm Not Ashamed. And we...

July 2017

July 06, 2017

No No, Gang, THIS Christian Is Totally Going to Fix Catholicism!

I'll pick apart his speech today, and then show you--for good measure, since I'm helpful...

June 2017

June 30, 2017

Hang On, Everyone! This Christian Knows What the Problem Is!

We've been having fun this week snarking a post in The Federalist to eensy-weensy little...

June 18, 2017

The God-Shaped Wound

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

May 2017

May 18, 2017

The Trouble with Tribbers

A long time ago I wrote about fundagelical preppers and how the doom-preparation community had...

April 2017

April 22, 2017

The Tell-Tale Heart of #ThingsOnlyChristianWomenHear

I was even more interested in the responses to the stuff women are sharing on...

April 13, 2017

Robert Bentley is (What Passes For) Big Game Now

One Christian minister rationalized the whole fiasco by claiming that Satan himself had gone a-hunting...

February 2017

February 05, 2017

The Comfort of the Failed Sales Pitch

There's always a reason, in religion, for the stuff we see religious people doing. It...

January 2017

January 27, 2017

Needs Must When the Culture War Drives

We are in the midst of a vast change in morality that is every bit...

November 2016

November 16, 2016

When Evangelicals Aren’t Very Evangelical

LifeWay Christian Resources has put out an interesting survey called The State of Theology. Alas...

October 2016

October 28, 2016

Chick Tracts: A Cultural Artifact, Cheap at Twice the Price.

We idealize the stuff we liked, gloss over and forget the stuff we didn't, and...

September 2016

September 20, 2016

Why People Don’t Like Christians, According to a Christian (Real or Not Real Edition)

Located on a site called Bible Reasons and called "25 Reasons Why The World Hates...

July 2016

July 22, 2016

The Adventures of Thom Rainer and the Strawman.

Normally you'd think that inaccuracies in Christians' perception of others is just their problem. But...

June 2016

June 22, 2016

The False Third Way of People to Be “Loved”

Preston Sprinkle is clearly trying to find a way to square himself with his tribe's...

June 10, 2016

Evangelical Churn: The Fury of the Tribe

You can probably imagine that Christians aren't terribly happy about Shannon Low's deconversion. Today we'll...

October 2015

October 15, 2015

The Titanic Band is Striking Up the Next Song (of Decline)

Some churches like their lights to be super-bright; some prefer their churches to be dark...

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...

March 2015

March 08, 2015

The Handbook: Apologetics: Pascal, Ontological, Cosmological

Some of these arguments rise to the level of apologetics classics. Others are painfully cringeworthy modern...

May 2013

May 22, 2013

The Cloud Has Moved

Communities get these ideas sometimes to live together and re-enact their ideals. It's part of...

May 13, 2013

Leopards Don’t Change Their Stripes

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