There are a lot of authoritarian groups out there. And they’re far more alike than they are different. Current news has had me thinking about this topic for a while now. So today, let me show you the lessons that authoritarians learn early. Along the way, I’ll expose how their groups really operate–and what busts them wide open.
Today, let’s find out what a spiritual director is, how to become one, and why so many Christians seem to be attracted to this style of therapy.
Years ago, I started a long blog series called The Unequally Yoked Club. It aimed to help Christian couples deal with a spouse’s deconversion at a time when the available advice sucked beyond all logical measure. Today, we’ll see that Christians’ marriage advice to the unequally-yoked has gotten worse in recent years.
In Frank Peretti’s motherlode of bad writing, This Present Darkness, the author frequently reveals his lack of familiarity with his own tribal enemies. This time, that unfamiliarity hits its peak as he fumbles his way through a cringeworthy scene with one of the novel’s villains. It turns out that the Boss from Hell is a grade-A scenery-chewer! So today, Lord Snow Presides over the Boss from Hell in This Present Darkness.
Authoritarian leaders create these instructional roadmaps that simply don’t get followers to their promised destinations. Followers try their best to follow these roadmaps, but they will never reach their Promised Land that way. Today, I’ll show you why that is, and why their leaders offer those roadmaps anyway.
Authoritarianism leads to scandals. That’s just the way it is. Authoritarian Christianity, in particular, leads to scandals. And today, I’ll show you why.
The more seriously Christians take their ideology, the more dangerous a malignant leader becomes to them. One prime example of these rules could well be what just happened in Acts 29, a huge Christian church-planting business. Their leader, Steve Timmis, just lost his job there. And he lost it by being, apparently, a grade-A jerkweed. Today, let’s check out Acts 29 and see what red flags Steve Timmis might have been waving there long before his situation came to a crisis point.
In this installment, we get to the heart of the earthly plot to take over Ashton–and we break our WTF-meters with Christian projection. Today, Lord Snow Presides over a dark conspiracy that is way more likely to happen in Christian circles than secular ones.
As Christianity’s numbers continue to decline, Christians themselves work feverishly to drum up interest in their churches. Today, let me show you an example of a church with a very old and unwanted product that has rebranded itself in a Read more
Hi and welcome back! Today, we’ll be reviewing an apologetics lecture by J.P. Moreland. The reason this topic piqued my interest involves our past discussion of fundagelical mommy blogger Natasha Crain. She parlayed sudden popularity with her blog into an Read more