Evangelicals have no shortage of advice about becoming a good listener. It’s one of their main evangelism strategies, after all! Being a good listener involves a number of soft skills, however, and evangelicals really can’t practice any of them without serious challenges to their beliefs. They find themselves, therefore, in Read more
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) had an interesting theme for this year’s Annual Meeting: ‘Walk Worthy’. By this, they mean that SBC members should be easily identifiable by how wonderfully they treat each other and those around them. Of course, SBC leaders pushed that motto because they hope that they Read more
Personal evangelism abuses social roles and expectations to deliberately manipulate targets. No wonder the flocks hate it!
Recently, Russell Moore wrote an opinion post for Christianity Today. In it, he discussed apologetics as a failed strategy for evangelism—and debates as pointless. Instead, he wants Christians to focus on their experiences and feelings. And in the end, he reveals that experiences and feelings are really all they have. Read more
Faction warfare in the Southern Baptist Convention came to a serious head this past week at their big Annual Convention, nicknamed SBC26. The Old Guard enjoyed some very decisive victories, and the Pretend Progressives got BTFO’d. Today, we’re going to cruise into their mosh pit and see what happened. (This Read more
This year at the Southern Baptist Annual Meeting (nicknamed SBC26 by the flocks), the faithful attendees got quite an interesting eyeful along the road: A billboard offering Bible verses that support women’s ordination to church leadership positions over both men and other women. Nothing is funnier than Christians dueling about Read more
As the voting members of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) heads to Orlando for this year’s Annual Meeting, one thing on their mind is the fight over women in church leadership. One of their two major factions is itching for that fight to turn into a denominational civil war—again. Yes, Read more
For a long time, I’ve been watching the shakeups going on in the world of AAA video games. It’s impossible not to draw some parallels with Christianity’s decline in America! But a few days ago, a game developer (or “dev”) offered advice that stopped me in my tracks. It was Read more
Recently, a professor describing herself as “spiritual-but-not-religious” wrote about how the cultural decline of Christianity has affected religious infrastructure. It got me thinking about what’ll happen as Christianity continues to erode in America. There definitely exist both good and less-good sides to that erosion—and what this professor calls a bill Read more
For years now, I’ve kept an eye on evangelicals’ growing distress over what they call ‘Biblical illiteracy’ —the flocks’ growing ignorance of doctrines and Bible stories that their leaders consider essential knowledge. But as America continues to secularize, non-Christians are losing familiarity with the Bible as well. A recent Washington Read more