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Do pro-lifers just not love their mothers?
I’ve been asked this one question many times over the years, and it’s always posed with a spiteful sneer: ‘Aren’t you glad your mother was pro-life?’ But my mother was pro-choice.
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Gatekeeping in Christianity: They’re all imposters
Quite literally speaking, gatekeeping is as old and as cherished a tradition for Christians as celebrating Communion. Back when I was evangelical, I saw this truth firsthand. Indeed, I encountered a truth about Christianity that deeply troubled me: the adherents of every flavor of the religion were completely certain that Read more
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Wingnut Christians: Analyzing their claims
This J. Robert Smith fella definitely tells his TRUE CHRISTIAN™ audience what they desperately want to hear. (To put it in Christianese, he tickles their ears. And that’s not a good thing.)
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Anatomy of a false persecution claim: THE EVER-LURKING THREAT (of love and kindness)
Authoritarians hate a lot of people. But they hate apostates far more than anybody else. An apostate is a threat and a danger, one which must be eliminated immediately and with as much force as can be mustered.
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A ‘ministry’ is just a Jesus-flavored business
While exploring my new hometown, I caught sight of a sign for a churchy-sounding financial-planning ministry. Its name was so vague that I had to get my phone out right then and there to figure out what it really was. And I soon did. They’re a financial ministry, you see, Read more
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Why Southern Baptists weren’t part of the Native Americans abuse report
Recently, the United States government finished the first part of its investigation into federally-funded boarding schools that abused Native Americans. As you might expect, it’s a dark read. Primarily, it reveals that for 150 years, the American government used these schools to systematically destroy Native Americans’ culture. Worse, the government Read more
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Next Gen: Southern Baptists still have no idea how to recruit young adults, thank goodness
Next Gen will totally and for sure fix the SBC’s decline!
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Workplace evangelism: fishing off the company’s dock
In the military, with its huge, life-altering penalties for insubordination and disobedience, it’s more important for military leaders to firmly and decisively rein in these overreaching authoritarians.
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Franklin Graham and Naghmeh Panahi: An all-too-common betrayal
Franklin Graham’s behavior is not some aberration, and neither was his bizarre decision to bring Panahi’s abuser to a military ministry shindig. It’s par for the course in evangelical ministry.
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New Catholic Movements: Pope Francis ain’t reforming them before his retirement
For a couple of years now, Francis has taken increasingly-strong steps to rein in the founders of New Catholic Movement groups.