As we saw last time we met up, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is still in decline. As they ramp up to their big Annual Meeting this June, let’s check out hardliners’ suggestions about saving it! (SBC Lingo: A messenger is a participating member church’s representative, sent to the meeting. Read more
Every year, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) holds elections for several important offices. Perhaps the highest-profile of these is that of the denomination’s president. As we close in on their 2024 Annual Meeting, five SBC leaders have tossed their hats into the Thunderdome to fight for that role. Five (or Read more
The Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) just released a new study about religious changes in America. They also gathered information about how respondents grew up and their support for Christian nationalism. It’s a real bombshell, and it’s got evangelicals coping and seething. Today, let’s cover this study’s main points—and see Read more
Evangelicals have been flailing for years to bump up their evangelism numbers. Really, they’ve done everything except be worthwhile groups to join! And now, they’ve got a wild new hope—a new study showing that a good number of Americans are sad about religion being on the decline in our country. Read more
We’ve talked many times over the years about how evangelicals love dehumanizing their enemies. This time, though, we have someone doing it who seems to stand well outside of the evangelical end of the Christian pool. Let’s dive into this newest attempt to make nonreligious people look like subhumans—and perhaps Read more
Recently, I mentioned that the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) had narrowly squeaked out of an intense investigation by the federal government over its huge abuse crisis. Guess what? The high-ranking SBC leader who said that just might have been speaking a bit prematurely. (For writeup of the creeptastic evangelism app Read more
Back in the heady days of 2021, I wrote about an evangelism app (archive) called ‘Bless Every Home.’ It was creepy sounding even then. Well, it’s back in the news. And somehow, it sounds even worse now. (This post ran as a BONUS ROUND for the SBC abuse investigation post. Read more
One of the lesser-known evangelical Christianese phrases, iron sharpens iron, does a lot of heavy lifting. It’s one of the permission slips in evangelicalism. Usually, their permission slips offer guilt-free abuse of others outside the tribe. This time, everything happens within the tribe. We’re going to check out this phrase, Read more
Very quickly, Scroggins recognized that he needed an evangelism method that was fast, simple, and most of all effective against his target recruitment market.
In a recent Baptist Press opinion post (archive), a Southern Baptist asserts the absolute necessity of his tribe’s product—but he keeps misspelling the name of it as ‘Jesus’ and other similarly-beloved evangelical buzzwords. This post illustrates a singular truth about his end of Christianity: Southern Baptists wouldn’t be able to talk Read more