Analyzing Christianity
‘Cluttered hearts’: Blaming pastors for their lost enthusiasm
In broken systems with flawed messages, group leaders would rather lay that blame anywhere but where it deserves to be.
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‘Consumer Christianity’ is just another way for evangelicals to compete
I kept running into these heartfelt evangelical condemnations of consumer Christianity. Eventually, I couldn’t help myself. I had to learn more about yet another attempt by Christians to judge and out-Jesus their competition. Definitions can vary, and so can solutions to solve what many evangelicals view as a deep systemic Read more
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The Jesus Fandom: Why Christians need so much advice for reigniting their lost passion
Lately, we’ve been talking about Christianity as a fandom. It certainly shares a great many characteristics with secular fandoms: Object(s) of devotion, ritualized behavior, participation in a niche culture, infighting both within the fans’ own particular groups and with other groups in the wider fandom as a whole, and more. Read more
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Why lying evangelicals claim atheists lie about disbelief
In the consumer internet’s early years, evangelical Creationists started a war against, um, reality itself—but they insisted that no, they were actually at war with atheists. In the ensuing 10-20 years, they haven’t changed much. They still think their #1 enemies are atheists. And they’re still pumping out the same Read more
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Attack of the TRUE CHRISTIANS™: Christians’ struggle to out-Jesus each other continues apace
I’d say ‘Don’t ever change, r/TrueChristians,’ except I already know they won’t. So there’s no need to say it.
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Sam Rainer issues evangelicals a stern caution about mission drift
For evangelicals, who literally define themselves by their drive to recruit new people for their churches, church drift represents far more than an absolute tragedy.
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Dismantling the beloved Christian myth of the servant leader
For centuries, Christians have loved to imagine that each leader in their religion is really a servant leader. That may be true of some, but it’s certainly not true of them all. In Christianity, the worst abuses come from leaders who do not deserve to wield their power. And those Read more
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Could it be… SATAN? Why so many Christians blame Satan for their problems
Look, Satan just attacks, okay? It’s what he does! He attacks!
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The false certainty of discernment in ‘Before You Lose Your Mind’
Evangelicals’ certainty in discernment is bad. Use these progressives’ certainty in discernment instead. Yep yep!
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How friendship evangelism preys upon the bonds of friendship
Lately, we’ve been checking out the friendship evangelism techniques pushed by a minor evangelical leader named Larry Dixon. For a few years now, he’s been on a tear about the benefits of being an evangelical like himself. We’ll talk more about the specific entries in this 52-part series later, but Read more