Hi and welcome back! For a long time now, I’ve studied Christianese. That’s the jargon that Christians use among themselves — particularly the really fervent and toxic ones, like fundagelicals and Catholic hardliners. Thanks to Christianese, they can be utterly unintelligible Read more
Yes, we’ve found ourselves yet another Christian who thinks he’s figured out the way to fix everything wrong in America. And that way? Everybody just needs to Jesus harder. Today, let me show you this popular non-solution — and more importantly, let me show you why his crowd likes it so much.
Hi and welcome back! I know nobody’s surprised when we talk about evangelical hypocrisy. They’re soaking in it! However, today’s story might represent one of the more egregious recent examples of that trope. Jen Hatmaker, a popular Christian speaker/author, recently announced her Read more
Hello and welcome back to Lord Snow Presides (LSP)! We’re all done with Frank Peretti’s grueling slog of a Christian pipe dream, This Present Darkness. To kick off our reboot, I thought I’d begin with something Mr. Captain was talking about the other day. Read more
Hi and welcome back! I guess today also represents a bit of a palate cleanser. I ran across a recent article on a Christian site that caught my eye. It describes a study about the effects of porn on fervent Christians. Most Read more
Hi and welcome back! Today also represents a palate cleanser. A new paper has come out regarding personality types. And it’s a humdinger! That old saying, ‘Nice guys finish last,’ might not be true. Or at least, its reverse might Read more
Hi and welcome back! I promised you a palate cleanser yesterday, and here it is! See, Pew Research recently released the results of a survey they conducted about casual sex. In it, they asked people in various religious groups (including Nones Read more
Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we looked at one of the worst subcultures in Christianity: bro-dude Christianity. It takes regular ole toxic Christianity and amps it up to 11 with extra misogyny and chest-thumping. Today, I want to show you just why bro-dude Read more
Hello and welcome! A few months ago, we talked about evangelicals’ reckoning with mental illness in their ranks. One flavor of Christianity seems especially vulnerable to this problem, too: bro-dude Christians. Today, let me show you what bro-dude Christianity is — and Read more
Hi and welcome back, y’all! We recently reviewed a 2019 book by Christian Smith, Atheist Overreach. In it, he developed a thesis that he felt merited atheists’ attention: that Catholicism–er, sorry, religion represented some humongous value to humanity that they needed to Read more