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Another Christian band bites the dust
What’s going on with Christian music lately? Is it just me, or does it seem like a lot of them started out Christian but aren’t anymore?
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A Matter of Faith: The Mega-Review
In ‘A Matter of Faith’, a 2014 Christian movie, a girl attends a college biology class and almost loses her faith!
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A Safe Guess for Anona United Methodist Church
If my blog were a sort of News of the Weird of Christianity–and I suppose in some respects it is–then this scenario would definitely qualify as no longer weird enough to make the cut. But I noticed something interesting: that I could tell something important about a church just by seeing how its members and leaders react to a scandal.
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Lord Snow Presides Over Arizona’s Complete Lawlessness. (#11)
A new first has happened in America: an openly atheistic woman has been elected to state office. And it’s happened in the very deeply religious state of Arizona, of all places. Today Lord Snow Presides over another sign of Christianity’s coming decline.
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It’s not a god-shaped hole—but a god-shaped wound
For many years, Christians have been trying to convince everyone that human beings have a “god-shaped hole” in their beings that cries out for belief in their particular god to fill it. But that’s not true. Rather, many people suffer from a god-shaped wound—created by the salespeople who want to fill it with their product.
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Lord Snow Presides… Over Wonder Woman Reviews. (LSP #10)
But I wasn’t surprised to learn recently that there are some Christians out there who are unhappy about this movie. I noticed some trends as I perused the reviews–and here they are. (SPOILER FREE.)
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Pick a Gear: Selling Contradictions
The marketers in broken systems have this unfortunate tendency to sell two different and diametrically opposed things to potential consumers. It’s not just a Christian thing; it happens in most broken systems. People in them don’t see that they’re doing it, and the people they’re selling to may not even realize that’s why they distrust the sellers and reject their product. But it happens all the same.
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Lord Snow Presides #9: Ed Stetzer’s New Gig
With everything going on in Baptist-land lately, I’m just surprised he lasted this long. Lord Snow today turns his serene, leaf-green gaze toward Ed Stetzer’s job change.
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The Power of Prayer in Christian Marketing
Last time we met up, we were talking about Christian marketing and why it sucks. Christians are required to put faith in stuff that simply isn’t true–and their magical thinking carries through to their strategies around revitalizing their brand, guaranteeing failure.
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You Lost Me: Why Nothing Can Change.
This past week we were talking about the 2011 book You Lost Me by David Kinnaman. The book was about why modern Christian evangelical churches were losing so many young-adult members, and how they could possibly reverse that trend. Christians either agreed wholeheartedly with this book’s ideas or they hated every word of it. Either way, however, nothing whatsoever changed in the modern Christian evangelical church as a result of it. Today I’ll show you why nothing changed, and why nothing ever actually could.