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Dave Ramsey Needs Your Pastor

For several years, when I worked for an evangelistic organization on missionary support, I attended...

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Noah Was Never About the Animals

Every generation of religious fear merchants eventually climbs into the ark. “The world mocked Noah...

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The Marquee of America’s Biggest Churches

Last time, I ran the numbers on the Bible and found that love came in...

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Every Restoration Is a Retcon

Every nationalist movement claims it's bringing something back. None of them are. You cannot restore...

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The Father’s Day Shirt That Explains Every Denomination

Father's Day at my house has a subgenre. My two daughters are locked in a...

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The Bootstrap Paradox of Faith

There is a moment in Interstellar that has tied people into knots for years. Cooper...

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The Cloning Problem in Christianity

Scientists recently discovered that repeatedly cloned mice eventually started falling apart. At first, the clones...

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Religion, Politics, and Hustle Culture Run the Same Con

The Four Lies We Keep Buying Human history is basically one long con, and we've...

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You Can’t Shame People Back Into Reality

I’ve called MAGA a cult. Not as a metaphor. I meant it. I’ve watched people...

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Apocalypse as Permission

On January 6, people wrapped in Christian symbols and American flags smashed their way into...

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How Stranger Things & Revelation Turn Endings Into Spectacle

Apocalypse stories don’t fail because they lack imagination. They fail because they lose interest in...

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Moravec’s Paradox, but Make It Biblical

Moravec’s Paradox says the stuff we think should be hard—math, logic, abstraction—is actually pretty easy...

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Charismatics, Psychics, and Charlatans—Oh My!

When your prophetic word sounds suspiciously like a cold reading with extra Jesus. It’s Sunday...

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We Are Not Born As We Will Stay

Graduation season just wrapped. Three ceremonies in a matter of weeks—two college, one high school....

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We Got a New Pope. Cool. So Now What?

White smoke rose, the bells rang, and just like that—we’ve got a new pope. Enter...

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Christian Severance

If you haven’t seen Severance, it’s a chilling little workplace dystopia where employees voluntarily undergo...

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How to Deal with Seriously Unserious People in Power

It used to be that if you wanted a career in politics, you at least...

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How American Christianity Grooms People to Embrace Fascism

There’s an old saying: If you want to know what people really believe, watch what...

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When God Closes a Door, You’re Stuck in the Dark

Don't you love those sweet, reassuring platitudes of modern American Christianity? Nothing like a comforting...

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Unpacking Christianity’s Main Character Syndrome

Welcome to the grand premiere of "Christianity: The Ego Edition," where the pews are packed...

November 2023

November 09, 2023

Evangelism: The MLM Scheme for Souls

Evangelism - it's like the MLM scheme of the religious world, complete with unsolicited sales...

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“Theological Musings” — Not Your Sunday School’s Theology

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The Illusion of Holiness: When Pastors Become CEOs and Sanctuaries Turn into Boardrooms

The Jimmy Fallon Paradox: A Public Persona vs. Private Reality We've all heard the recent...