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Let’s Play: Personal evangelism!
Personal evangelism abuses social roles and expectations to deliberately manipulate targets. No wonder the flocks hate it!
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Why Russell Moore retreats from atheist debates
Recently, Russell Moore wrote an opinion post for Christianity Today. In it, he discussed apologetics as a failed strategy for evangelism—and debates as pointless. Instead, he wants Christians to focus on their experiences and feelings. And in the end, he reveals that experiences and feelings are really all they have. Read more
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SBC26: Old Guard hardliners score decisive victories
Faction warfare in the Southern Baptist Convention came to a serious head this past week at their big Annual Convention, nicknamed SBC26. The Old Guard enjoyed some very decisive victories, and the Pretend Progressives got BTFO’d. Today, we’re going to cruise into their mosh pit and see what happened. (This Read more
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SBC26: Defiant billboard preaches women’s ordination at Southern Baptists
This year at the Southern Baptist Annual Meeting (nicknamed SBC26 by the flocks), the faithful attendees got quite an interesting eyeful along the road: A billboard offering Bible verses that support women’s ordination to church leadership positions over both men and other women. Nothing is funnier than Christians dueling about Read more
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Trevin Wax wants to start a new Conservative Resurgence for the SBC
As the voting members of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) heads to Orlando for this year’s Annual Meeting, one thing on their mind is the fight over women in church leadership. One of their two major factions is itching for that fight to turn into a denominational civil war—again. Yes, Read more
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A game dev offers advice that Christian leaders should (but won’t) heed about decline
For a long time, I’ve been watching the shakeups going on in the world of AAA video games. It’s impossible not to draw some parallels with Christianity’s decline in America! But a few days ago, a game developer (or “dev”) offered advice that stopped me in my tracks. It was Read more
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Secularization and the looming collapse of Christian infrastructure
Recently, a professor describing herself as “spiritual-but-not-religious” wrote about how the cultural decline of Christianity has affected religious infrastructure. It got me thinking about what’ll happen as Christianity continues to erode in America. There definitely exist both good and less-good sides to that erosion—and what this professor calls a bill Read more
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‘Biblical illiteracy’ isn’t just a Christian concern now
For years now, I’ve kept an eye on evangelicals’ growing distress over what they call ‘Biblical illiteracy’ —the flocks’ growing ignorance of doctrines and Bible stories that their leaders consider essential knowledge. But as America continues to secularize, non-Christians are losing familiarity with the Bible as well. A recent Washington Read more
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Rebaptism in the grand age of Christian decline
When we looked at the 2025 performance metrics of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), I realized that what we’re seeing in their baptism metrics is very likely rebaptism at work. Rebaptism is exactly what it sounds like: Someone who’s already been baptized once doing it again. Unsurprisingly, the SBC doesn’t Read more
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Rededicate 250: Evangelicals have realized that dominance is key to their survival
For years now, I’ve said that Christianity wouldn’t exist today if it weren’t for its leaders grabbing and wielding legal powers of coercion 1800 years ago, then protecting it with everything they had. In recent decades, secular governments have been peeling away those powers bit by bit. But amid more Read more