History and Science
The ‘Help-Rejecting Complainer’ (LSP #213)
Lord Snow Presides over the unique way that knowing how to describe something can help us frame problems—and solve them.
Analyzing Christianity
Evangelical vaccine denialists latch onto 666 hysteria
It’s very easy for Christians to ignore Jesus’ direct orders, and even easier to latch onto conspiracy theories about the number 666.
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The SBC Isn’t Handling Its ‘Abuse of Faith’ Megascandal
SBC-lings like to imagine that their denomination is a loose federation of churches that govern the denomination from the bottom up. Yep, they’re all just big ol’ Jesus-ers who Jesus together — and, coincidentally, pool material resources to convert and control the whole world. The opposite is actually the case, as the EC demonstrated in spades that week.
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Mark Lanier, Paul Pressler’s Attorney, Seeks to Sway SBC Now
Mark Lanier knows very well what’s at stake right now in the SBC’s megascandal.
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Josh McDowell: Cast Out of the Crony Network
Josh McDowell was once a power player in the evangelical crony network. Now, he’s been cast out. Come see it happen in realtime.
Analyzing Christianity
Sir Archibald explores Hell in ‘The Great Divorce’ (LSP #212)
Hell, in The Great Divorce, encourages humans to be humans—while Heaven only wants robots devoid of everything that makes humanity sparkle.
Analyzing Christianity
The Jesus obsession in ‘The Great Divorce’
By the time I joined evangelicalism (in the mid-1980s), I learned to feel downright guilty for not injecting enough Jesus-ification into my life. I couldn’t just read a fantasy novel for the sake of it, go to a movie, or enjoy music that didn’t mention Jesus even once.
Codex Disbelievium
The Motherlode of Truth from Justin Martyr (1st-Century Fridays #15)
Hi and welcome back! Now, we come to the last 1st-Century Friday post for a while. After this, we may revisit my master list as time goes on, but I think we’ve finally hit the wall on writers who were even vaguely contemporaneous with Jesus. However, I’m taking us out Read more
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Abuse of Faith: The SBC Looks as Guilty as Sin Lately
I mean, we always suspected the real truth would be worse than we could possibly imagine. It’s taken the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) over two years — almost three now — to begin addressing their sex abuse scandal, called ‘Abuse of Faith.’
Codex Disbelievium
The strawman ghosts of ‘The Great Divorce’
When Christians write parables or allegories, they never worry about their characters not acting like people at all. That’s not the point of the story. The story is meant only as a framework to use to defeat strawmen.