Slowly, I’m working through the posts in our archive library like the Lone Ranger: Riding into town one day, fixing all its problems, and riding back out to the sunset afterward. I’ve got about 2200 posts to fix, and I’ll get to them all in time!
Way back in 2015, Pew Research came out with their devastating Religious Landscape Study. It finally convinced Christians that their religion was well and truly in decline. If you want to trace right-wing Christians’ current behavior to its roots, this study’s fallout should be part of your essential reading. This Read more
For years after my deconversion, I found myself at loose ends about how to view the universe and my place within it. Christianity had given me a simple cosmology, but Christianity’s claims had turned out to be false. After deconverting, I wanted to build my worldview on claims that were Read more
In recent years, more Christians are facing doubt than ever before. But their communities and leaders still haven’t learned how to respond to it. They’re still largely using the same toolbox they had in decades past. Let’s explore that toolbox—and see where it fails to fit into real-world doubters’ experiences. Read more
It’s a parable for the ages, really, what happened with Jimmy Carter. Once upon a time, what people knew about Jimmy Carter likely went along these lines: First, he was a one-term Democratic President of the United States, presiding over a time of great economic and political turmoil. Second, before Read more
Not long ago, evangelical big name Tim Challies wrote about his lifelong problems with insomnia. After some exploration of this problem, he ended up punting to mystery: Since he has no idea what might have caused his insomnia, he assumes it must be supernatural in nature. Yes, everyone! An omnimax Read more
Discipleship might be the answer to the prayers of authoritarian evangelical pastors, but it all too often becomes a total nightmare for their followers.
Many Christians have this idea that their faith imbues them with a sort of glowing-but-invisible aura that both attracts and repels non-Christians. It’s their Jesus Aura.
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.
Hi and welcome back! Today being the 4th of July, I thought I’d offer some past posts about freedom — and then some links our community has been talking about today. Happy 4th! FREEDOM! Observations about freedom from the R2D commentariat Our commentariat brought their A game today and found Read more
Today, I’ll tell you what happened the night I finally lost my fear of Hell.