History and Science
DNA Study Tells Us That We’re Barely ‘Human’ At All (LSP #201)
Today, Lord Snow Presides over the many, many facets of our humanity — and the messy DNA that makes us so.
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New DNA study tells us that we’re barely human at all
Today, Lord Snow Presides over the many, many facets of our humanity — and the messy DNA that makes us so.
Analyzing Christianity
The Southern Baptist Convention Faced Serious Declines Everywhere in 2020
Today, let’s go over the declines that the SBC faced all over in 2020, and talk about why those declines likely happened.
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The SBC’s 2021 Book of Reports Is Out!
As is our wont each year, we now turn our gaze to the 2021 Annual Report of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). These reports — as biased, uneven, and spin-doctored as they always are — are of great importance to anybody keeping tabs on evangelical Christians. They give us a great deal of information. Not only do these reports cover the previous year, but they also give us hints about evangelicals’ strategies for the year(s) ahead. They even reveal the various stresses on evangelical leaders’ minds! So today, let’s check out this year’s report for some basic stats.
Codex Disbelievium
The Silence of Philo of Alexandria (1st-Century Fridays #4)
Hi and welcome back! For today’s 1st-Century Friday, we have a treat in store: Philo of Alexandria, also called Philo Judaeus. He lived smack in the middle of that critically-important period we’ve identified as the 30s, roughly. Not only that, but he was also Jewish and highly-placed in court circles. Read more
Analyzing Christianity
George Barna Has a New Fear-Based Marketing Attempt
Yesterday, we checked out the illustrious career of George Barna. He makes a good living by telling Christians whatever makes them open their wallets for him. And what works best to open wallets? Inducing fear and dread in his target audience. Now, let’s check out how George Barna used his style of marketing most recently. He’s doing his best to make his TRUE CHRISTIAN™ marks pony up the bills by making them scared that a new fake kind of Christianity is taking over America. Today, let’s see how he does it — and if it’ll work.
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George Barna: Hucksters Can’t Stop Huckstering
About a year ago, we had a good laugh at George Barna and his shrill attempts to sell evangelicals his products through the use of fear and dread. It was a pleasing chaser for the sour scariness of his dystopian world-domination plans. Well, he didn’t learn a thing after evangelicals largely ignored his sales pitches last year. Lately, he’s returned with another attempt to frighten evangelicals into buying his product. Today, we ask why hucksters like George Barna just can’t stop, well, huckstering.
Analyzing Christianity
How John Milton changed Hell — again (Journey Into Hell #13)
Hi and welcome back! During our Journey Into Hell series, we’ve sure seen the Christian concept of Hell change a lot from its humble origins. And now, it’s changing again. John Milton, who wrote Paradise Lost, brought a unique point of view to Christians’ existing package of Hell-beliefs. That point Read more
Analyzing Christianity
Mark Driscoll: Bullies Keep Bullying (LSP #200)
None of us thought Mark Driscoll would learn a thing after losing Mars Hill and Acts 29, the church-planting umbrella group he helped create, back in 2014. And nope, he sure hasn’t.
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Why the white evangelical radio silence about the recent PRRI survey?
After I’d read PRRI’s writeup of their survey, I wondered what those Christians were saying about it. So I went looking. Today, I’ll show you what I found — and maybe we’ll figure out why white evangelicals have been silent so far about this survey.