For years now, our annual Spooky Season series has focused on mostly evangelical women’s increasingly-futile efforts to find husbands within the tribe. But this year, we have a different horror story to tell. This year, let’s wander the suddenly-empty hunting grounds of the Great Evangelical Husband Hunt. (This post and Read more
Not long ago, the Discord’s AV club watched A Distant Thunder (1978), the sequel to A Thief in the Night. This movie hit a vast number of tropes in evangelical Rapture/Endtimes movies, centering on one of my very favorites: Taking the Mark of the Beast may occur under duress, but Read more
Last time we met up, I showed you how Tim Keller addressed what he called defeater beliefs. We found his self-titled “deconstructions” in a handout hosted by a college evangelism group called Cru. That’s not too surprising, given that the handout is meant to help evangelicals recruit new members to Read more
After a new round of people treating belief in Jesus like an essential vitamin every human needs, I want to show you why that’s not true. Faith in Jesus isn’t like Vitamin C. Humans don’t need it like that. Nor can we fail to meet all our emotional needs without Read more
Recently, we watched A Thief in the Night. This 1972 movie is one of the original grandmasters of the evangelical Rapture genre. Millions of people have seen it, and many of them were just children. Today, let’s check out its overview and see how hard it pushes fear-based marketing to Read more
Ever since I began tracking evangelicals’ insistence on a Gen Z revival, I’ve noticed how well they avoid any unpleasant jabs from reality about it. But lately, it feels like they’re going overboard in avoiding facts. Something else seems to be going on here besides just yet another evangelical talking Read more
Recently, we talked about the downfall of G3 ministries after trying to drag Tom Ascol into a minor sermon-plagiarism scandal. These days, Tom Ascol is one of the biggest voices in the ultra-hardline Old Guard faction of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). So it’s extremely important for him to model Read more
If someone out there still doesn’t get my delighted obsession with evangelical infighting, this G3 Ministries story ought to do the trick. This popular ministry just closed its doors after an egregious incident involving a mystery brown envelope containing anonymous complaints against someone they knew, someone that they absolutely had Read more
Al Mohler is a big-name Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leader, and he is also the worst kind of bootlicking worm: He moves to place himself right at optimal licking distance by carefully following the boots. He’s not even subtle about it. In a September 2nd article in Baptist Press, we Read more
Over the years, I’ve heard my share of nonsensical and weird evangelism advice to Christians. Effectiveness stopped being a concern ages ago, replaced by just getting out there and trying to evangelize. But one bit of that advice stands out as the worst I’ve ever heard. It stands head and Read more