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New Catholic Movements: Pope Francis ain’t reforming them before his retirement
For a couple of years now, Francis has taken increasingly-strong steps to rein in the founders of New Catholic Movement groups.
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Just Jesus harder: Advice that always fails, for a reason
Jesus-ing harder doesn’t fix anything. It just keeps Christians chasing a dragon they can never actually catch, then blaming themselves for never catching it.
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White evangelical racism: Two bad tastes that taste worse together
How white evangelical racism became such a problem, and why it will remain so for the foreseeable future.
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Ammon Bundy needs everyone’s attention again
Today, let me tell you what Ammon Bundy has been up to lately in the town I will only call home for a few more weeks.
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“Everyone’s a slave to something” — except not really
When I was just a teenager, some evangelical set this over-simplistic equation in front of me: Pick your master, because you’ll always be a slave to something.
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Complementarianism: Why evangelicals can’t have good relationships
The reason evangelicals invented complementarianism was to win a denominational slapfight. That’s it. The architects of it just wanted to demolish feminism. So they simply did not care how complementarianism would play out in the everyday lives of their increasingly-authoritarian flocks.
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Not the Onion: an evangelical suggests using the Book of Revelation as a self-help guide
Well, it’s finally happened. I’ve finally found an evangelical who thinks that the Book of Revelation is supposed to be a Christian self-help guide to conflict resolution. I thought I’d seen it all with shoehorned misinterpretations, but apparently not! And his listicle displays the worst, most misinformed, most studiously gaslighting elements of evangelicalism as a whole.
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How authoritarian leaders handle dissenters–and why
Authoritarian Christian leaders really do not like dissenters, do they? Today, let’s check out why.
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How Caleb Kaltenbach Teaches Evangelicals to Fear Wrongness
Come examine the testimony of Caleb Kaltenbach, a culture warrior crusading against human rights since his teen years. I’ll reveal exactly why this predation works.
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Pastoral plagiarism: Why pastors do it, and why evangelicals THINK they do
Today, let me show you evangelicals’ guesses about why pastoral plagiarism happens, the reasons for it that evangelicals can’t discuss, and most importantly why they can’t discuss this truth.