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Really, book burnings are as Christian as crusades, misogyny, and pseudoscience–which is to say, as Christian as it ever gets. I’ll show you what I mean, today.

Today, Lord Snow Presides over a book that gives voices to the growing and increasingly-vocal women in atheism.

Through members’ own effort, goes the logic, they can return the system to its original values, even get it moving again toward its stated goals. But this teaching is as wrong as wrong could ever possibly be. If anything, this teaching is even more wrong than the supernatural claims made in service to that primary mandate.

Predators gravitate toward these systems because they are a reliable source of the prey they desire. Today, I’ll show you how the masters of the broken system keep the prey in the sheepfold.

Lately, I’ve noticed we’ve been sharing a lot of media that’s personally meaningful to us regarding challenging indoctrination. Today, then, I want to offer a list of works that challenged my faith when I was Christian. And then I’ll open the floor to you to share whatever you watched, read, or Read more

This week, the world reeled at a shocking report issued by a grand jury in Pennsylvania. The report concerned predatory Catholic clergy in that state, and the abuses they committed against children. In reply, Catholics brought to bear a defense that we’ve seen before. Today, I’ll show you what that defense is, and how it backfires completely.

As you might suspect, the report reveals that the SBC’s decline hasn’t slowed at all. Today, let’s look at some very telling signs of the denomination’s worsening problems.

One of the report’s sermons in particular seems like a very fitting summary of the denomination’s fears–and hopes. Today, we look at a sermon with a tell-tale heart.

We’re going to be talking about quite a few elements of that report in the days to come. But first, though, let’s wander afield a bit with one of the leaders of this disgraced denomination. Come check out this bizarre segue from the report! Today, Lord Snow Presides over the fundagelical hate-fear relationship with snakes.

Here are the overarching trends in the SBC right now, how they’re responding to criticism and scandal, and what they desperately hope to accomplish in the coming year–and most importantly, why that stuff matters to us.