Not long ago, I ran across a Cru handout of Tim Keller’s “Deconstructing Defeater Beliefs: Leading the Secular to Christ.” In it, he details what he calls these defeater beliefs, which he thinks are beliefs that make Christian claims seem less plausible. But his response to them is anything but Read more
After a new round of people treating belief in Jesus like an essential vitamin every human needs, I want to show you why that’s not true. Faith in Jesus isn’t like Vitamin C. Humans don’t need it like that. Nor can we fail to meet all our emotional needs without Read more
If it’s a day ending in -Y, then we have a new sex abuse scandal erupting out of evangelicalism. This time, it involves Wheaton College—one of the biggest names around in evangelical education—and a former high-ranking admin there named Dennis Massaro. According to various reports, for decades this college protected Read more
Recently, we watched A Thief in the Night. This 1972 movie is one of the original grandmasters of the evangelical Rapture genre. Millions of people have seen it, and many of them were just children. Today, let’s check out its overview and see how hard it pushes fear-based marketing to Read more
Ever since I began tracking evangelicals’ insistence on a Gen Z revival, I’ve noticed how well they avoid any unpleasant jabs from reality about it. But lately, it feels like they’re going overboard in avoiding facts. Something else seems to be going on here besides just yet another evangelical talking Read more
File this under Fork Found in Drawer: An evangelical with no psychology training or experience publishes an almost-certainly 100% AI-written essay on an evangelical news site about how awful psychology is at really, truly fixing people’s emotional and mental health problems. There’s just something magical about someone in the most Read more
Recently, we talked about the downfall of G3 ministries after trying to drag Tom Ascol into a minor sermon-plagiarism scandal. These days, Tom Ascol is one of the biggest voices in the ultra-hardline Old Guard faction of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). So it’s extremely important for him to model Read more
If someone out there still doesn’t get my delighted obsession with evangelical infighting, this G3 Ministries story ought to do the trick. This popular ministry just closed its doors after an egregious incident involving a mystery brown envelope containing anonymous complaints against someone they knew, someone that they absolutely had Read more
Al Mohler is a big-name Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leader, and he is also the worst kind of bootlicking worm: He moves to place himself right at optimal licking distance by carefully following the boots. He’s not even subtle about it. In a September 2nd article in Baptist Press, we Read more
In the 2010s, Christians began noticing that their religion had entered a period of decline. For a while, the hints of it were subtle enough to ignore, so most of them did just that. But eventually, it got too obvious and protracted to do that anymore. Evangelicals in particular evolved Read more