Gaming
Does not game well with others: The art of the kick
In gaming as in real life, teamwork skills matter. When one player didn’t get the memo, the game master makes the kick.
Analyzing Christianity
How to tell if you’re a TRUE CHRISTIAN™, according to TRUE CHRISTIANS™
The simple truth of the matter is that every Christian is a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ — because none of them really are.
Analyzing Christianity
The many red flags Gracepoint Church waved
In a very real sense, Gracepoint weaponized the deepest yearnings and aches of its prey, then played upon their deepest fears to gain their ongoing compliance.
Analyzing Christianity
Gracepoint: Yet another ‘discipleship’ church turns out to be abusive
Discipleship might be the answer to the prayers of authoritarian evangelical pastors, but it all too often becomes a total nightmare for their followers.
Analyzing Christianity
Risk aversion: The Catholics desperately trying to make Christianity sound wild and dangerous
Mike Amodei wants young proto-Catholics to see themselves as the daring, brave, risk-taking ambassadors of a living god who’d absolutely let them suffer enormous pain if it suited him.
Analyzing Christianity
The Southern Baptist Convention still seems quite reluctant to discuss their 2022 Annual Report
Something was nibbling away at me over the past couple of weeks, ever since I wrote about this topic originally, but it’s really come to a head lately. And it has to do with the 2022 Annual Report of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Why did the denomination’s leaders seem Read more
From Patreon
How journaling helped me come home to myself
In a small-town Kansas laundromat, in the pages of my personal journal, I came face to face with someone I barely recognized.
Analyzing Christianity
‘Invisible evidence’: How Christians get faith so wrong (and why)
I can see, then, why so many TRUE CHRISTIANS™ want to turn faith into a feeling rather than measuring it through compliance. This move eliminates compliance as a tangible measurement of faith. That’s good, since most Christians could never qualify as faithful that way.
Analyzing Christianity
Certainty about uncertainty: The surefire solution to deconstruction
‘Is God even real?’ I cried aloud with a cracking voice. ‘Or is that, too, just a lie?’ And the ceiling answered as it always had: with silence.
Analyzing Christianity
The sheer self-interest in that State of the Bible 2022 report
ABS is being as subtle as a truck fire in State of the Bible 2022.