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The Southern Baptist 2022 Annual Report is finally here
Thanks to the folks at the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC), we FINALLY have the SBC’s 2022 Annual Report.
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Worldbuilding: How to reject reality and create your own
Long ago, I discovered what it must be like to be a god. I stretched forth my hand and called continents and cultures, animals and cities, sometimes entire worlds into being. I altered the laws of physics and the nature of reality. If that’s not what a god does, then what is?
Analyzing Christianity
Why Christian extremists are menacing an Idaho library
It’s not enough that Christian extremists in Idaho control what their own children read. They don’t want control of just their own children’s reading choices. They already have that. Instead, they want control over the reading choices of everyone, most especially the children of heathens.
Analyzing Christianity
Prayer: Why Christians always ‘forget to pray’
If prayer worked even in the bastardized way that Southern Baptists think it works, nobody’d ever need reminding to do it.
Analyzing Christianity
Matt Chandler, yet another hardline evangelical, has fallen like so many others
Well, well, well. The leader of The Village Church (TVC), Matt Chandler, has finally gotten caught doing something off-limits enough to his church board that he had to take a leave of absence. I’m sure the stories about it vastly Read more
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Christian advice about singleness: Unpacking the mistakes in that Mark Ballenger listicle
That tribe cannot and will not change its collective opinions about marriage and family. That’s why it’s so much easier for its Mark Ballenger types to dump all this emotional ego-searching on the people who can’t fit into that life script.
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Just Christian Things: Confusing wisdom with self-discipline, then failing to offer a roadmap for cultivating either quality
Technology has nothing to do with evangelicals’ lack of wisdom or their disobedience. We can lay both of those problems at the feet of evangelicalism itself.
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Ammon Bundy: Lying for Jesus, yet again
Ammon Bundy needs attention again, I suppose. After a frenetic summer of grandstanding outside of a hospital, he continues to campaign for public office in Idaho. To help him win the upcoming governor’s race, he planned a September 10th rally Read more
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‘He Gets Us’ is the latest terrible evangelism campaign
As soon as I spotted this ad and realized it wasn’t selling perfume, I forgot all about why I’d gone to that site in the first place.
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Confuse ’em and lose ’em: Christian thought stoppers
Thought stoppers are super-meaningful-sounding statements that don’t actually say anything substantive—and can’t really even be defined at all. The further into wackadoodlery a flavor of Christianity is, the more thought stoppers we’ll find there, and for good reason.