Alpha Course has been around for decades. So have criticisms of it from every single corner of Christianity. Today, let me show you some of those criticisms—and what they mean for Christianity itself. (This post first went live on Patreon on 1/2/2026. No voicecast today, sorry! My voice is doing Read more
A random YouTube video led me to a realization about Christians’ inability to perceive their own self-focus. It’s one of those realizations that really changes everything forever. I’m never again going to look at anything Christians do in quite the same way. Today, I want to show you that video—and Read more
At this point in our Alpha Course mega-review, we must stop to discuss speaking in tongues. The Christians who do it really like it! But not everyone knows what it is or how it’s done. So today, let me offer you a crash course in one of the weirdest worship Read more
When a group of us watched Alpha Course #10, we weren’t expecting this level of duplicity and evasiveness. The video promised to reveal an answer: ‘How can I be filled with the Holy Spirit.’ But in reality, it spent almost a half hour to give three short instructions. Once I Read more
In Alpha Course #9, we began quite a strange pivot into Charismatic-specific flavors of Christianity. That’s no accident, either. As we’ll see today, the masters of Alpha Course might say it’s ecumenical, but this course really aims for one specific destination in converting viewers. We’ll trace the origins of this Read more
In Alpha Course #9, our presenters change a bit to reflect a serious new direction in the series. Here, we’ll get sales patter and testimonies meant to make us think the Holy Spirit does a bunch of different things. Today, we’ll check out this video, examine its claims, and find Read more
Recently, a gospel singer named Solomon Ray saw his songs climb to the top of the Christian music heap—but there’s a catch! He’s an AI created by right-wing rapper named Topher. More than that, the AI’s music is created in an AI program called Suno. This isn’t even the first Read more
As we’ve been checking out the app ‘Text With Jesus‘, I’ve noticed that right-wing Christians tend to laser-focus on one criticism above all: The presence of ‘Satan’ as part of the lineup of this app’s AI chatbot personalities. Today, let’s check out their consternation and fretting—and see why they’re right Read more
Last time we met up, I showed you ‘Text With Jesus’, an AI chatbot app that lets users text with all kinds of Christian personalities. Over on the Discord, our community had a lot of fun thinking of questions to ask this app’s personalities. Here are some of our questions—along Read more
An app called ‘Text With Jesus’ has been drawing right-wing Christian attention for a couple of years now. They do not like it! And lately, with AI chatbots becoming more and more popular, they’re only getting more vehement in that dislike. Today, let’s examine this app and see why right-wing Read more