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
Within the serried ranks of nepo babies, Franklin Graham reigns supreme. Out of all of them, he might be the best known and most successful. He’s parlayed his daddy’s evangelism empire into a generational dynasty by playing upon his audience’s biggest fears. But that audience has aged, and he along Read more
During the 2025 Annual Meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), a group called 9Marks held a “State of the SBC” panel presentation. During this presentation, their five speakers aired a number of concerns about their denomination. As the SBC lurches ever-closer to schism, it was a banger of a Read more
If you were holding your breath waiting for pastors’ wives to finally get the compassion and care they need to stave off exhaustion and burnout, you’ll have to keep doing that. They most definitely didn’t get it from the recently-ended Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Annual Meeting. Instead, they got the Read more
Many years ago, evangelicals wielded apologetics as weapons against their worst enemies: atheists. They lost not only their battles but the entire Keyboard Wars themselves, then retreated into their current walled-garden enclaves on social media. But a community member noticed a video that might just mark the return of those Read more
No matter how hard evangelicals try in their evangelism, they can’t help themselves. Fear will always peek out through their entreaties to convert. Fear is always the endgame for evangelism. It can’t be any other way—not for them, anyway. Today, we check out Taylor Standridge, who really want evangelism to Read more
Tradcaths, a super-vocal, super-conservative branch of Catholicism, have been extra weird since Pope Francis died. I can see why, too: Most of them converted into Catholicism from extremely conservative hardliner evangelical groups, so they expect Catholicism to work like their old faith—just with extra incense and chanting. Nor do they Read more
Authenticity, as a concept, isn’t part of the vocabulary of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). With their latest metrics revealing yet more declines in membership, affiliated churches, and donations, this denomination is bleeding relevance. Today, we’ll cover one big reason why: Zero authenticity within evangelicalism in general. And it’s about Read more
For years now, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) has been desperately spin-doctoring and obfuscating their terrible metrics to look better to their flocks. But this year might represent a whole new low for them. Despite a few gains in some metrics, the overall picture couldn’t look more bleak. Today, we’ll Read more
In any dying industry, its leaders obsess about making their irrelevant product feel relevant again. Christianity is no different. To most Americans, its product—membership in specific Christian groups—seems more and more irrelevant. But evangelical leaders in particular can’t retool that product to fit the times. Instead, they employ various strategies Read more