Analyzing Christianity
Are Southern Baptist traditionalists losing their main stronghold?
A years-long Southern Baptist feud between two powerful factions approaches the end of its middle. Can the beginning of the end be far off?
Analyzing Christianity
Attack of the TRUE CHRISTIANS™: Christians’ struggle to out-Jesus each other continues apace
I’d say ‘Don’t ever change, r/TrueChristians,’ except I already know they won’t. So there’s no need to say it.
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Sam Rainer issues evangelicals a stern caution about mission drift
For evangelicals, who literally define themselves by their drive to recruit new people for their churches, church drift represents far more than an absolute tragedy.
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Ali Alexander and the alt-right feud that finally exploded
Colorado police revealed that they are actively investigating an alt-right agitator named Ali Alexander. He’s part of the general alt-right, white-nationalist Zoomer movement alongside Nick Fuentes (America First) and Milo Yiannopoulos (ex-Breitbart provocateur). For years I’ve been hearing rumors about all of them that should concern anybody in the movement—if Read more
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Dismantling the beloved Christian myth of the servant leader
For centuries, Christians have loved to imagine that each leader in their religion is really a servant leader. That may be true of some, but it’s certainly not true of them all. In Christianity, the worst abuses come from leaders who do not deserve to wield their power. And those Read more
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Evangelicals and infertility: Where dogmatic rubber meets the reality road
Infertility is one of the deepest and most devastating rifts between evangelicals’ marketing press and the actual reality of how they actually behave.
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Once again, the Satanic Temple reminds Christians about the wall of separation
This past week, an Oklahoma school board rejected a Catholic church’s application for a taxpayer-funded charter school, all because another Catholic warned them that the leaders of the Satanic Temple exist—and that they delight in taking advantage of the exact same funding and laws that Christians do. Therefore, if Oklahoma Read more
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It’s Baptism Sunday soon, so queue the evangelism theatrics
The beatings shall continue until evangelism improves!
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Could it be… SATAN? Why so many Christians blame Satan for their problems
Look, Satan just attacks, okay? It’s what he does! He attacks!
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What Orlando Bloom felt was so important to tell President Zelensky
Actor Orlando Bloom recently visited Ukraine as UNICEF’s Goodwill Ambassador. During a meeting with President Volodymyr Zelensky, he decided to read Zelensky something written by Ikeda Daisaku, leader of a Japanese religious movement called Soka Gakkai International (SGI). That’s certainly one way to spend a very limited amount of time Read more