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Answering Alpha (series)

Answering Alpha is a series of reviews of Alpha Course , which is an evangelism-focused series of lectures and Bible studies. The “course” aims to introduce outsiders to Christianity to basic concepts like sin, the afterlife, who and what Jesus is, and why everyone needs to convert.

First developed in the UK, it now runs all over the world in many different languages.

And as you might suspect, it sucks.

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Analyzing Christianity

Alpha Course #13: Finally, we learn how to resist evil!

In Alpha Course #13, the hosts kindly teach their viewers how to resist the wily wiles of the wiliest coyote of them all, Satan. Here, we learn that it’s not so much about resisting evil as it is about Jesusing the Jesus-Jesus just as hard as we can. And from Read more

By Captain Cassidy, 3 days05/08/2026 ago
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Analyzing Christianity

Alpha Course #12: Making the most out of the rest of our lives, sorta

In Alpha Course #12, its creators share how newly-converted Christians can make the most of the rest of their lives. But they’re not actually that great at it. Today, let’s check out their suggestions—and wonder together if, indeed, one could build a meaningful life out of them. (This post and Read more

By Captain Cassidy, 1 week05/01/2026 ago
old dogs are best dogs and I will not be taking questions about this | roll to disbelieve
Analyzing Christianity

Christian criticisms of Alpha Course (reveal a dealbreaker)

Alpha Course has been around for decades. So have criticisms of it from every single corner of Christianity. Today, let me show you some of those criticisms—and what they mean for Christianity itself. (This post first went live on Patreon on 1/2/2026. No voicecast today, sorry! My voice is doing Read more

By Captain Cassidy, 4 months01/05/2026 ago
yes but you're not really communicating at all | roll to disbelieve
Analyzing Christianity

Captain Cassidy’s Guide to Speaking in Tongues

At this point in our Alpha Course mega-review, we must stop to discuss speaking in tongues. The Christians who do it really like it! But not everyone knows what it is or how it’s done. So today, let me offer you a crash course in one of the weirdest worship Read more

By Captain Cassidy, 5 months12/26/2025 ago
you only know they're talking about tongue-talkin' if you already know that's their thing | roll to disbelieve
Analyzing Christianity

Alpha Course #10 talks in circles around speaking in tongues

When a group of us watched Alpha Course #10, we weren’t expecting this level of duplicity and evasiveness. The video promised to reveal an answer: ‘How can I be filled with the Holy Spirit.’ But in reality, it spent almost a half hour to give three short instructions. Once I Read more

By Captain Cassidy, 5 months12/22/2025 ago
it's only a model | roll to disbelieve
Analyzing Christianity

The weird Charismatic pivot in Alpha Course #9

In Alpha Course #9, we began quite a strange pivot into Charismatic-specific flavors of Christianity. That’s no accident, either. As we’ll see today, the masters of Alpha Course might say it’s ecumenical, but this course really aims for one specific destination in converting viewers. We’ll trace the origins of this Read more

By Captain Cassidy, 5 months12/19/2025 ago
mind the first step it's a doozy | roll to disbelieve
Analyzing Christianity

Alpha Course #9: They have no idea what the Holy Spirit does

In Alpha Course #9, our presenters change a bit to reflect a serious new direction in the series. Here, we’ll get sales patter and testimonies meant to make us think the Holy Spirit does a bunch of different things. Today, we’ll check out this video, examine its claims, and find Read more

By Captain Cassidy, 5 months12/12/2025 ago
the crow laughed softly like my mother and asked why i'd ever listened to doves for so long | roll to disbelieve
Analyzing Christianity

Alpha Course #8: The one that actually has no idea what the ‘Holy Spirit’ is

In Alpha Course video #8, the title promises to tell us exactly who the ‘Holy Spirit’ is. But as we saw in previous videos, it’s pure folly to trust this series’ titles to live up to their promises. In this review, we’ll explore what the video says, what it studiously Read more

By Captain Cassidy, 7 months10/20/2025 ago
we can't stop here this is pumpkin spice country | roll to disbelieve | "who has choices need not choose. we must, who have none. we can love but what we lose - what is gone is gone." (song of elli, peter s beagle)
Analyzing Christianity

The dark side of divine guidance (Alpha Course #7)

As I watched Alpha Course’s video about divine guidance, one fact sprang out at me above all others. Well, two facts. The first one was simple: Christians have no idea in the world how to tell what their god wants them to do. The second is that their god apparently Read more

By Captain Cassidy, 7 months10/13/2025 ago
six of one, half a dozen of the other | roll to disbelieve
Analyzing Christianity

Alpha Course #7: The one with wild guesses about divine guidance

In Alpha Course’s seventh video, we find some of its creators’ most fanciful guesses yet about exactly how their god and religion operate. This one covers divine guidance, which almost all Christians believe their god offers believers as a perk. Despite its nearly-universal status, however, they can’t actually tell us Read more

By Captain Cassidy, 7 months10/03/2025 ago

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