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2025-07-11T11:59:47-04:00

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Tragedy at Camp Mystic and the Cost of Negligent Faith

Last updated on: July 11, 2025 at 11:59 am By Stuart Delony

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“I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help…” —Psalm 121:1, featured on Camp Mystic’s website Camp Mystic looks like something out of a Southern Living fairy tale—sunlight glinting off the Guadalupe River, white-clad girls giggling on the dock, devotionals under the trees. It’s the kind of place where parents send their daughters to become wholesome, God-fearing women–with firm handshakes and Instagrammable smiles. And now it’s the site of one of the worst youth camp... Read more

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2025-06-03T16:57:27-04:00

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When “Thus Saith the Lord” Becomes a Brand Slogan

Last updated on: June 3, 2025 at 4:57 pm By Stuart Delony

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It’s prophecy season again — and wouldn’t you know it? God’s apparently very concerned with your Q4 breakthrough and your destiny being unlocked. Blessings are coming, doors are opening, and the algorithm has confirmed: your next season is going to be your best yet. At least, that’s what the prophets are saying — well, the ones with merch tables and ministries that sound more like hedge funds. These aren’t the wild-eyed truth-tellers of old. No, today’s prophets are smooth-talking spiritual... Read more

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2025-06-25T11:22:00-04:00

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Why Are Evangelicals So Horny for War?

Last updated on: June 25, 2025 at 11:22 am By Stuart Delony

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They say you should never mix religion and politics. But what if your religion is politics, and your kink is the end of the world? Welcome to American evangelicalism: a faith movement so obsessed with apocalypse that it’s less about saving souls and more about watching the world burn—preferably on pay-per-view, narrated by Kirk Cameron. If you’re wondering why so many Jesus lovers are cheering on war in the Middle East, it’s not because they care about geopolitics or human... Read more

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2025-06-25T11:14:11-04:00

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Speaking in Tongues: When Gibberish Becomes God-Talk

Last updated on: June 25, 2025 at 11:14 am By Stuart Delony

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Once upon a time—specifically Acts 2—speaking in tongues was a miracle. The apostles were allegedly filled with the Holy Spirit and suddenly fluent in foreign languages to spread the gospel across cultural lines. Whether you believe it or not, at least it had a point. Fast forward a couple thousand years, and that miracle has been warped into a circus act. Today’s version? Religious noise. Nothing more than emotionally driven babble dressed up as divine. In charismatic churches, speaking in... Read more

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2025-06-23T16:46:16-04:00

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Repentance Theater and the Evangelical Closet

Last updated on: June 23, 2025 at 4:46 pm By Stuart Delony

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Michael Tait is sorry. Or at least, he’s sorry enough to make Evangelicalism feel better about itself. In his statement following allegations of sexual assault and decades of substance abuse, the former DC Talk and Newsboys frontman offered up the classic Christian mea culpa: tears, Psalm 51, vague accountability, and the promise of ongoing healing “away from the stage and the spotlight.” Which, loosely translated, means: I’m going to lay low until you forget this happened and K-LOVE needs a... Read more

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2025-06-03T16:12:11-04:00

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Tony Perkins and the Gospel of Punishing the Poor

Last updated on: June 3, 2025 at 4:12 pm By Stuart Delony

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Tony Perkins is the kind of man who could watch someone drown and offer them a laminated Bible verse instead of a rope. If there’s a spiritual gift of sanctimonious cruelty, he’s got it in spades—and he’s not shy about sharing. His latest sermon-disguised-as-policy-pitch is a reminder that when white Christian nationalism gets bored, it turns to kicking the poor. In a piece titled “Absent Truth, Fairness in Health Care Is Compromised”, Perkins pulls out his well-worn trick: cherry-pick a... Read more

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2025-06-16T20:12:36-04:00

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We Are Not Born As We Will Stay

Last updated on: June 16, 2025 at 8:12 pm By Stuart Delony

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Graduation season just wrapped. Three ceremonies in a matter of weeks—two college, one high school. Three of my kids crossing thresholds, moving forward, shedding old versions of themselves. Sitting there, I watched them—these humans I’ve raised—walk across stages into the next unknowns. They have changed. They have grown. In ways I expected and in ways I didn’t. I’m proud of them—deeply proud—not just because they’ve accomplished things, but because they are becoming themselves. That’s what life is supposed to be:... Read more

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2025-06-16T11:25:27-04:00

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Blessed Are the White Refugees

Last updated on: June 16, 2025 at 11:25 am By Stuart Delony

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Welcome to America, Where Whiteness is a Visa Congratulations, white South Africans — your MAGA cosplay has earned you a one-way ticket to the land of exceptionalism, expletives, and ex-president worship. While actual refugees—fleeing war, famine, and real persecution—sit in bureaucratic purgatory, Trump’s America has rolled out the red (white) carpet for a very specific group: Afrikaners. Yes, the descendants of apartheid architects are now being classified as “persecuted,” and no, this isn’t satire. Not yet, anyway. In a move... Read more

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2025-06-05T19:59:14-04:00

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What’s Under the Combover, Sean?

Last updated on: June 5, 2025 at 7:59 pm By Stuart Delony

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America has questions. Big ones. And no, we’re not talking about the theology behind “worship protests” or why Christian influencers suddenly all own ranches. We’re asking the real question: What is Sean Feucht hiding under that combover? Let’s be clear—there’s no shame in losing your hair. Happens to the best of us. Hairlines retreat like evangelical integrity during an election year. But the scandal isn’t the balding—it’s the aggressive, ramen-styled deception attempting to pass for a hairstyle. That golden wave... Read more

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2025-06-03T20:24:40-04:00

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Faith Formation as a Rehearsal

Last updated on: June 3, 2025 at 8:24 pm By Stuart Delony

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Nathan Fielder’s HBO experiment exposes what happens when faith becomes a script: the church rehearses piety but forgets how to live it. Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal is part satire, part social experiment, and part existential crisis disguised as premium cable. It’s awkward. It’s brilliant. And if you’re paying attention, it’s also a pitch-perfect metaphor for how American Christianity tries to form people of faith—through rigid control, endless scripting, and a pathological fear of unpredictability. It’s not a show about religion.... Read more

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