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Dave Ramsey Needs Your Pastor

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

August 2026

August 25, 2026

When Certainty Needs Fear

Benjamin Franklin once invented a musical instrument so strange and beautiful that people decided it...

July 2026

July 15, 2026

The Church Keeps You in the Helicopter

Holding Water Everything goes wrong at the moment we name it. The chaos is real....

May 2026

May 12, 2026

Why Humans Need Stories That Don’t Pretend to Be God

Christians love mocking mythology. Zeus throwing lightning bolts. Thor with a hammer. Athena popping out...

April 2026

April 28, 2026

Tom Bombadil and the God Who Won’t Manage Your Life

Years ago I read The Fellowship of the Ring to my kids before bed. Hobbits...

April 21, 2026

Please Remain Seated

Life, as Arthur Schopenhauer once suggested, is a bus ride—not a scenic tour or a...

April 14, 2026

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...

April 07, 2026

What the Hell, Rob Bell

This isn’t a theory. It’s a timeline. Rob Bell built a career passing off borrowed...

March 2026

March 26, 2026

When Ego Becomes Policy

We've seen this before. Not the details — those always change. Different headlines, different enemies,...

March 10, 2026

The Heated Rivalry of David and Jonathan

Christians insist the Bible is crystal clear about everything. Especially sex. Gender. Marriage. Morality. Apparently...

March 03, 2026

Megatron Is a Gun (And That’s the First Clue)

In the original Transformers cartoon, Megatron transforms into a gun. Not a tank. Not a...

January 2026

January 22, 2026

Apocalypse as Permission

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

December 2025

December 18, 2025

The Sound That Slipped Through the Walls

I grew up in a house where fear was faith and silence was safety. No...

November 2025

November 18, 2025

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...

October 2025

October 28, 2025

The Gospel of Failing Up

The Cult of the Overrated America has a strange talent for turning mediocrity into mythology....

October 21, 2025

We Are All Allentown Now

“Every child had a pretty good shot / To get at least as far as...

February 2025

February 26, 2025

How American Christianity Grooms People to Embrace Fascism

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

February 05, 2025

How MAGA Exposed American Christianity’s Stockholm Syndrome

Sometimes, I wonder if Jesus would even recognize large swaths of American Christianity today. That...

October 2024

October 01, 2024

How ‘God’s Will’ Became a Campaign Strategy

Lance Wallnau has earned a spot in the Christian Crazy Hall of Fame on Snarky...

September 2024

September 24, 2024

Biblical Doomscrolling: The Holier-Than-Thou Way to Miss It

Doomscrolling: that endless, soul-sucking spiral of bad news and outrage that keeps you glued to...

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...

November 06, 2023

Why Christians Should Swear More: Because Jesus Probably Did

Look, let's get one thing straight—words are just goddamn words. You heard me right; I'm...

September 2023

September 12, 2023

Comic-Con vs. Church: Where the Capes Actually Stand for Something

Ah, Sunday mornings. You could be in two places: a church with stained glass windows...

August 2023

August 15, 2023

Virtuous Women, Bobs, and Dicks: The Naming Inequality in American Christianity

In the curious world of American Christianity, where virtue-signaling often overshadows genuine virtue, we find...