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The night my fear of Hell died
Today, I’ll tell you what happened the night I finally lost my fear of Hell.
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The Wacky World of Christian Callings
Hi and welcome back! Something about yesterday’s topic got me thinking about the Christianese concept of callings. In Christianese, a calling is something Christians think Jesus told them, specifically, to do with their lives. Today, let me show you how strange Read more
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Christian Parenting Advice: Deliberately Overflow Your Child’s Faith Pool
Hi and welcome back! As you likely know, Christians these days are quite distressed over how quickly teens and young adults are leaving the faith. One guy’s written what he claims will absolutely help parents keep their kids Christian for life. It Read more
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Political privilege might backfire hard on evangelicals, says new study
For a long time now, I’ve noted the increasing political activity and polarization of America’s Christian Right. As their religion’s decline continues, they’re increasingly frantic to get their waning religious privilege enshrined in law. However, a new study has emerged that confirms something I’ve suspected for a long time: If evangelicals do gain what the study’s authors called political privilege, it might backfire hard on them by accelerating their decline. Today, let me show you what this study reveals — and what evangelicals are likely to do in response to it.
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Gaslighting: How Dare We Expect Evangelicals to Fulfill Their Promises!
Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, I alluded to the mistreatment evangelicals heap upon people who express disappointment with their experiences in the religion. To be sure, it does happen. It happened to me, in fact! Yes, people join these evangelical Read more
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How (and Why) Evangelicals Blow Their Witness With Single Moms
On Mother’s Day, I showed you a major evangelical news site that somehow missed an important story about the single moms in their churches who didn’t find motherhood through adoption. Instead, these women got their kids through unapproved sex or divorce, neither of which hardline evangelicals like much. Evangelical single moms really test evangelicals’ own marketing hype to the limits — and accidentally reveal exactly who evangelicals, as a group, truly are. Today, let me show you how evangelicals treat single moms — and why, and what their behavior says about them as a group.
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Astrology Is Just So Hilariously Fake (LSP #191)
Hi and welcome back! Recently, I saw an astrology column that made me laugh. Somewhere along the way, it looks like astrologists began to realize that boring predictions don’t make for happy customers. My ultra-boring star sign somehow became just Read more
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An Evangelical Site Tries Hard to Ignore Their Single Moms
In the April issue of Christianity Today (CT), their cover story involved the most hilarious bait-and-switch attempt I think I’ve ever seen from any Christian site, like seriously ever. In this story, CT tried to pretend that there’s some big groundswell of single evangelical women (and some men) who are adopting children rather than waiting for marriage and procreation. Today, let’s look at this story they ran — and the real one they absolutely, positively did not want to discuss — about evangelical single moms.
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Evangelicals’ birthrate strategies reveal very dark covert goals
Yesterday, we checked out some evangelicals’ reactions to the pandemic-related declines in birthrates around the world. These evangelicals’ general approach to increasing birthrates in general interested me. Instead of helping to make life easier for the women having these babies, Read more
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The new low birthrate moral panic evangelicals are stirring up
In the wake of the pandemic, many countries are experiencing a drop in their birthrate. That won’t be surprising or big news to most of us. Nor would most of us be surprised to learn that American evangelicals themselves aren’t immune to the social forces that influence everyone else’s family planning decisions. But evangelical leaders are certainly upset about all of this. They’re trying to blame the decreasing birthrate on sin and evil ickie straw feminism, instead of taking responsibility for what’s probably actually happening. Today, let me show you the story itself — and then show you how evangelicals are freaking out about it for all the wrong reasons.