Recently, an evangelical megachurch pastor and abuser-for-Jesus, Matt Chandler, whined to an evangelical audience that people just aren’t accepting his favorite redefinition these days! Today, let’s check out that redefinition — and marvel together over how much the real meaning of love differs from it.
Recently, we’ve been checking out a ten-year prediction from the Internet Monk, Michael Spencer, about the coming decline of evangelicalism. Along with that dire prediction, though, he also offered a ray of hope for his tribe. Through the power of Jesus-ing harder, they could come through the decline, albeit in reduced circumstances. But he was wrong. Today, let me show you why.
Hi and welcome back! Just over ten years ago, a guy calling himself the Internet Monk made a series of predictions about the future of evangelicalism. To everyone’s surprise (including his own), these predictions went viral — insofar as anything did back in 2009, I suppose. This being the New Read more
Today, let me show you why nobody will ever convince evangelicals to be less cruel: they’ve found a performative brand of piety that lets them believe their own marketing about themselves without having to do all that tough work that goes along with real self-improvement.
Today, let’s check out how evangelist Ben Jack sees hypocrisy as a hindrance to sales attempts — and how he proposes to solve that growing problem.
Hi and welcome back! We’ve got a quick little segue ahead of us. A recent thread in comments reminded me that we’re coming up on the holiday season. And you know what that means! No, I’m not talking about Christmas trees and blowout Thanksgiving dinners. Instead, I’m talking about the other near-constant Read more
Today, let’s look at how evangelism functions as a form of disrespect, why it’s always been like that, and why evangelical leaders demand it anyway of their flocks.
Today, let’s wonder together why evangelicals’ sex rules give believers so much trouble.
Today, Lord Snow Presides over a guy who clearly does not understand that his religion is in such a deep decline that stuff like rejecting volunteers is not even halfway up to him anymore.
Yesterday, Hillsong, a massive international megachurch complex, fired one of their lead pastors, Carl Lentz. They cited ‘moral failures’ as the reason for Lentz’ firing. The moment most of us heard that phrase, of course, we knew what it meant. And indeed, Lentz confirmed that suspicion in a follow-up Instagram post. Today, let’s check out the scandal and see where Carl Lentz laid his blame — because of course he did lay blame.