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The Healy wearable: Just a newer, weirder multi-level marketing scheme
The Healy wearable has only a very limited FDA clearance. But its claims go much, much further as they blitz your social media.
Analyzing Christianity
As church attendance declines, church leaders try to make it sound essential
Church attendance continues to tank across America. Downward trends already in place before the pandemic declined even further in the wake of it. It’s a tough time to be a business offering only one product—active church membership—in a country that increasingly doesn’t want it. In reversing the decline of their Read more
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That beloved Christian lie of magic Jesus transformation
Out of every Christian lie, the one about Jesus’ magical transformation ability might be the worst. This lie tells Christians that belief in Jesus—along with adherence to a great many asterisked terms and conditions that only get revealed long after conversion—will transform them into better people. This transformation supposedly allows Read more
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The Atlantic accidentally reveals Christianity’s growing irrelevance
Another evangelical, another missed guess at how American Christianity can recover its lost membership and credibility.
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Reminder! The Endtimes are still totally happening any day now
Endtimes believers tend to have very short memories for their own predictions. But today’s example was surprising, even by their very expansive standards. Today, we’ll trace an interesting shift in how Endtimes hucksters sell their products to worried evangelicals. (Some evangelicals prefer to write the term as separate words: the Read more
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Relax, everyone! Russell Moore knows exactly how to reverse evangelicals’ decline
It’s not that it’s terrible advice. It’s that almost nobody will do it. Any evangelicals still sticking around this dysfunctional flavor of Christianity are there for a reason. And this advice conflicts with that reason.
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Discernment emergency ahoy! A ‘plethora of false teachings’ are wrecking Christianity!
Chris Carpenter has discernment on his mind. Well, that and train travel, apparently. But discernment is his main preoccupation. Recently, he had a guest on his podcast who has identified ‘7 Lies That Can Really Mess Up Your Faith.’ You’ll be happy to know that proper discernment fixes all of Read more
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Lukewarm Christians taste gross to Jesus
Being lukewarm is the other side of being legalistic. A legalistic Christian is someone who is more obsessed with rules and behavior than the judging Christian is. Likewise, a lukewarm Christian is simply one who is less obsessed than the judge with such things. Lukewarm Christians can, in this judgment, Read more
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Using the Doctrinal Yardstick to spot legalism (is impossible)
It’s fun to watch evangelicals accuse other Christians of legalism. And we all know why, right? It’s because they’ll never, ever convince anybody else of their opinions. All they have to evaluate anything is their own Doctrinal Yardstick, and it is not marked with any earthly—or really even any meaningful—measures. Read more
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We’ve burned past +1°C. Did a 2008 climate prediction get it right?
In 2008, the National Geographic documentary ‘Six Degrees That Could Change the World’ offered a sobering look at how our planet could become increasingly unrecognizable as it continues to warm. I was curious about what it had to say now Earth has passed the first benchmark in the film—one degree Celsius warmer than the global average in 1900.