The Southern Baptist Convention, or SBC, has known about their entrenched sex abuse problem for at least a few decades now. Everyone else found out about it in 2019 with ‘Abuse of Faith.’ Since then, however, SBC leaders have done virtually nothing to reform their denomination. The SBC’s biggest names Read more
In all of Christianity, perhaps one of the funniest sights you’ll ever encounter is Christians accusing other Christians of following a counterfeit Jesus. It’s downright comical. But in its way, this much-beloved, near-eternal argument just marks one of Christianity’s biggest problems: There really is no objective way to establish which Read more
Accounts differ somewhat regarding exactly what happened with Pope Francis this past month, but everyone close to the situation agrees that he was very sick and is still recovering. He seems to have stabilized somewhat at this point, but his courtiers are still all aflutter. Speculations abound about what’ll happen Read more
Recently, we discussed an ongoing scandal within the UK’s Anglican Church (also called the Church of England). Its highest-ranking clergyman, the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, had to resign after everyone discovered he’d egregiously mishandled sex abuse complaints and shielded a particularly-serious abuser from consequences for years. His last day Read more
Trevin Wax is one of the hardline evangelical Calvinist lads over at The Gospel Coalition (TGC). We’ve discussed his work more than a few times. He aims his message at evangelicals who might be fixin’ to deconstruct their faith. Since there appear to be a lot of deconstructing evangelicals out Read more
Gateway Seminary is one of the six seminaries operated by the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). Located in godless, heathen California, this seminary recently made the news again. This fall, the school is relocating one of its regional campuses from Fremont to San Leandro. This school is important for several reasons, Read more
You’d think that evangelicals would have learned a decade ago just what awful optics it is for anyone to vociferously defend slavery. BUT NO. Here we are yet again, staring down at the abyss of atrocity apologetics. In recent months, I’ve seen a serious uptick in hardline evangelicals defending what Read more
By its very nature, evangelism is confrontational. It almost can’t be anything else. But in recent years, evangelicals have been questioning why it has to be that way. Some of them even offer other methods to let the more shy and awkward sheep in the fold ways to meet their Read more
In this blog’s first year, I spent a while outlining all the different elements that went into my deconversion. I haven’t formally talked much about it since. Now, here, I want to share my story with you. Today, let me show you how—and maybe importantly why—I deconverted from Christianity. (This Read more
Not long ago, I ran into an article about Dean Inserra, a Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) pastor, and his thoughts about evangelism. Specifically, Inserra identified one group of people who were virtually impossible to convert to his brand of tribalistic white evangelicalism: “Good people.” In his opinion, “good people” resisted Read more