We’ve talked many times over the years about how evangelicals love dehumanizing their enemies. This time, though, we have someone doing it who seems to stand well outside of the evangelical end of the Christian pool. Let’s dive into this newest attempt to make nonreligious people look like subhumans—and perhaps Read more
Back in the heady days of 2021, I wrote about an evangelism app (archive) called ‘Bless Every Home.’ It was creepy sounding even then. Well, it’s back in the news. And somehow, it sounds even worse now. (This post ran as a BONUS ROUND for the SBC abuse investigation post. Read more
One of the lesser-known evangelical Christianese phrases, iron sharpens iron, does a lot of heavy lifting. It’s one of the permission slips in evangelicalism. Usually, their permission slips offer guilt-free abuse of others outside the tribe. This time, everything happens within the tribe. We’re going to check out this phrase, Read more
Very quickly, Scroggins recognized that he needed an evangelism method that was fast, simple, and most of all effective against his target recruitment market.
In a recent Baptist Press opinion post (archive), a Southern Baptist asserts the absolute necessity of his tribe’s product—but he keeps misspelling the name of it as ‘Jesus’ and other similarly-beloved evangelical buzzwords. This post illustrates a singular truth about his end of Christianity: Southern Baptists wouldn’t be able to talk Read more
For all too many Christians, nothing is scary as the mere idea of death. They’re terrified of dying. There’s a reason for that, of course. They seem absolutely dumbfounded when they encounter people who don’t believe Christian claims and aren’t afraid of death. Today, let’s dive into this fear and Read more
Evangelicals may fluff themselves up about their dedication to accountability all they like. The truth looks far different. They actually despise accountability, and do everything they can to avoid facing it. The resulting lack of accountability is the biggest red flag about their culture, and the reason why scandals pour more Read more
Evangelicals have expressed both dread regarding AI’s popularity and power, and excitement about its potential to turn around their decades-long decline. Many millions of dollars’ worth of evangelical money is concentrating on AI’s potential at the moment.
Hypocrisy is an endemic part of evangelicalism. All evangelicals are hypocrites, at least going by the official meaning of the term. In other words, they all behave in ways that run counter to the ideals they espouse. Evangelicals’ roadmaps are broken, so they cannot ever travel from Point Conversion to Read more
Frank Page has a decades-long and well-established history of not wanting to investigate sex abuse in Southern Baptist churches or holding sex abusers fully accountable for their crimes. Then he got himself embroiled in a scandal of his own.
But never fear: Almost immediately, Page got a pastoring job in an SBC church. But the story wasn’t over.