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!
How Glenn Hobbs, a young man in the late 1980s, tried to get into the Satanic Panic game—but failed.
Billy Graham’s work both created a juggernaut of coercive power for his religion—and in turn helped damn it to decline. Here’s how he doomed the faith he claimed to love.
Today we’ll look at the CPC’s very own Bible study and see just what those clobber verses are. And then, we’ll clobber ’em right back.
Today I’ll show you what this problem looks like, what the women dealing with the problem make of it, and what it means for the religion as a whole.
What’s going on with Christian music lately? Is it just me, or does it seem like a lot of them started out Christian but aren’t anymore?
In ‘A Matter of Faith’, a 2014 Christian movie, a girl attends a college biology class and almost loses her faith!
For many years, Christians have been trying to convince everyone that human beings have a “god-shaped hole” in their beings that cries out for belief in their particular god to fill it. But that’s not true. Rather, many people suffer from a god-shaped wound—created by the salespeople who want to fill it with their product.
Last time we met up, we were talking about Christian marketing and why it sucks. Christians are required to put faith in stuff that simply isn’t true–and their magical thinking carries through to their strategies around revitalizing their brand, guaranteeing failure.
I’ve been coming into contact with a lot of different ideas about apologetics itself as a field. One of the more intriguing of those ideas comes from Myron Penner, a Christian who wrote a book called The End of Apologetics. He did an interview with a blogger when the book came out, and the reactions to that interview were so fascinating that I wanted to show them to you.
As part of finding our own internal validation and becoming our own support network, one of the first things we have to do is take back the personal power we’ve given away. Especially if that Christian was tangled up with one of the really authoritarian groups in the religion, this step can be one of the hardest we’ll ever take on our way toward deconversion.