The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) just released a new study about religious changes in America. They also gathered information about how respondents grew up and their support for Christian nationalism. It’s a real bombshell, and it’s got evangelicals coping and seething. Today, let’s cover this study’s main points—and see Read more
We’ve talked many times over the years about how evangelicals love dehumanizing their enemies. This time, though, we have someone doing it who seems to stand well outside of the evangelical end of the Christian pool. Let’s dive into this newest attempt to make nonreligious people look like subhumans—and perhaps Read more
Evangelicals have been flailing for years to bump up their evangelism numbers. Really, they’ve done everything except be worthwhile groups to join! And now, they’ve got a wild new hope—a new study showing that a good number of Americans are sad about religion being on the decline in our country. Read more
Recently, I mentioned that the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) had narrowly squeaked out of an intense investigation by the federal government over its huge abuse crisis. Guess what? The high-ranking SBC leader who said that just might have been speaking a bit prematurely. (For writeup of the creeptastic evangelism app Read more
Back in the heady days of 2021, I wrote about an evangelism app (archive) called ‘Bless Every Home.’ It was creepy sounding even then. Well, it’s back in the news. And somehow, it sounds even worse now. (This post ran as a BONUS ROUND for the SBC abuse investigation post. Read more
One of the lesser-known evangelical Christianese phrases, iron sharpens iron, does a lot of heavy lifting. It’s one of the permission slips in evangelicalism. Usually, their permission slips offer guilt-free abuse of others outside the tribe. This time, everything happens within the tribe. We’re going to check out this phrase, Read more
Very quickly, Scroggins recognized that he needed an evangelism method that was fast, simple, and most of all effective against his target recruitment market.
In a recent Baptist Press opinion post (archive), a Southern Baptist asserts the absolute necessity of his tribe’s product—but he keeps misspelling the name of it as ‘Jesus’ and other similarly-beloved evangelical buzzwords. This post illustrates a singular truth about his end of Christianity: Southern Baptists wouldn’t be able to talk Read more
For all too many Christians, nothing is scary as the mere idea of death. They’re terrified of dying. There’s a reason for that, of course. They seem absolutely dumbfounded when they encounter people who don’t believe Christian claims and aren’t afraid of death. Today, let’s dive into this fear and Read more
All good things come to an end. Everything changes in one way or another. That’s just how life is. That constant sense of change is why I call our humanness a situation, not a condition. At some point, humans hunted the very last mammoth. Built the last active shrine to Read more