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The many red flags Gracepoint Church waved
In a very real sense, Gracepoint weaponized the deepest yearnings and aches of its prey, then played upon their deepest fears to gain their ongoing compliance.
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Risk aversion: The Catholics desperately trying to make Christianity sound wild and dangerous
Mike Amodei wants young proto-Catholics to see themselves as the daring, brave, risk-taking ambassadors of a living god who’d absolutely let them suffer enormous pain if it suited him.
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The Southern Baptist Convention still seems quite reluctant to discuss their 2022 Annual Report
Something was nibbling away at me over the past couple of weeks, ever since I wrote about this topic originally, but it’s really come to a head lately. And it has to do with the 2022 Annual Report of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Why did the denomination’s leaders seem Read more
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How journaling helped me come home to myself
In a small-town Kansas laundromat, in the pages of my personal journal, I came face to face with someone I barely recognized.
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‘Invisible evidence’: How Christians get faith so wrong (and why)
I can see, then, why so many TRUE CHRISTIANS™ want to turn faith into a feeling rather than measuring it through compliance. This move eliminates compliance as a tangible measurement of faith. That’s good, since most Christians could never qualify as faithful that way.
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Certainty about uncertainty: The surefire solution to deconstruction
‘Is God even real?’ I cried aloud with a cracking voice. ‘Or is that, too, just a lie?’ And the ceiling answered as it always had: with silence.
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The sheer self-interest in that State of the Bible 2022 report
ABS is being as subtle as a truck fire in State of the Bible 2022.
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Eliminating pastors’ excuses about boosting church attendance
Thom Rainer has come out with yet another blog post trying to staunch the hemorrhaging blood from evangelical churches. This time around, he’s attacking Christian pastors who make excuses about boosting church attendance.
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State of the Bible 2022: Yes, of course Gen Z evangelizes more
In trying to find some kind of good news, any kind at all, the study’s creators have hit upon one of the lowest-hanging bits of fruit imaginable. And here it is: Gen Z Christians evangelize way more often than older Christians do
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Christians think they don’t change their message—it changes them, except they do and it doesn’t
Out of every bit of Christianese I’ve heard lately, this might be one of the chirpiest and most annoying.