This analysis contains some information we don’t usually see out of the Southern Baptist Convention, including an egregious example of goalpost-shifting to avoid dealing with the metric most indicative of decline.
Prayer has always been the ultimate example of magical thinking. That means doing something that has no effect on a desired outcome, but the person doing it thinks it does anyway. And nobody knows that deep down quite like evangelicals do. As much as their Dear Leaders constantly push the Read more
Pew Research just released a bunch of surveys and studies about Nones. At 28% of America’s adult population, they now outnumber both Catholics (23%) and evangelicals (24%).
Evangelicals have never taken their decline well, and they are not about to start now.
Christians do love miracles. After all, miracles represent PROOF YES PROOF that their god actually exists when nothing else would give anyone such an impression! Plus, Christians consider miracles part of the benefits package that they get for belonging to Christianity at all. Without active membership in the club, they Read more
In response to a hardline Catholic’s response to another hardline Catholic, an evangelical agrees that there is ‘no better time’ to join up. Of course, it’s not like anyone could choose any other time in which to exist than the present. But it got me thinking. In terms of sheer Read more
Evangelicals continue to argue with each other about who should be on the Republican ballot for the next election: Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis. Each camp has its own vehement opinion.
Invoking divine authority to bolster one’s claims is a long-beloved evangelical pastime. Here, it just makes them look ridiculous.
Not long ago, some evangelicals broke my heart. They were the family of a vibrant, impressionable, trusting, inexperienced young woman named Micah. In 2009, her husband murdered her. That husband, Thomas Pate, had pretended to be a true-blue evangelical to win her and her parents’ hearts. And he succeeded. It Read more
My goodness, a mere two days after roasting apologetics as hucksterism intended for evangelicals alone, I learn about a huge apologetics conference that recently happened. As I read the descriptions, I broke out laughing over and over again. Oh my. This was something, all right. Let’s dive into this conference, see Read more
Thom Rainer functions as a living, breathing, nonstop rebuttal to evangelical claims. Back in Ye Olden Daies of evangelical power, he reigned as the leader of Lifeway Christian Resources, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) propaganda and publishing arm. During that time, Lifeway tanked in sales. Once he scare-quotes ‘retired,’ he Read more
In 2017, a man sued Pressler for sexual abuse. Seven other men eventually came forward with similar stories. The suit was settled, but the glaring problem that Pressler represents to Southern Baptists hasn’t been so easily dealt with.