Analyzing Christianity
Why Evangelicals Can’t Follow Their Own Rules About Sex
Today, let’s wonder together why evangelicals’ sex rules give believers so much trouble.
Analyzing Christianity
‘I Don’t Work With Volunteers,’ Sniffs Evangelical Choosy Beggar (LSP #165)
Today, Lord Snow Presides over a guy who clearly does not understand that his religion is in such a deep decline that stuff like rejecting volunteers is not even halfway up to him anymore.
The Games We Play
The Love Narrative Fouling Up the Evangelical Husband Hunt
A few days ago, we started talking about a 2008 book, Where Have All the Good Men Gone by A.J. Kiesling (who is one of those women). We’re discussing it to get some ideas of why single, middle-aged evangelical women just can’t find husbands within their faith community. And it turns out that one major hindrance for them is their own fixation on a particular love narrative — a cherished fantasy that interferes with the reality of their situation. Today, let me show you the false love narrative that holds these single evangelical women back — and how far they’re willing to go to hang onto it.
The Games We Play
Single Evangelical Women Ask ‘Where Have All the Good Men Gone’
I recently ran across a 2008 book by A.J. Kiesling called ‘Where Have All the Good Men Gone?’ Its subtitle reveals its main focus: ‘Why So Many Christian Women Are Remaining Single.’ And we’ll all be happy to know that she landed on some explanations for the growing number of frustrated single women. Today, I’ll offer up a review of this book — and present its main failing, an over-reliance on false narratives.
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Denial in the Great Husband Hunt: An evangelical horror story about marriage
Hi and welcome back! Today, as we’ve been doing for a while now on Halloween, we turn our attention to one of the biggest horror stories in evangelicalism: the Great Evangelical Husband Hunt. This year, our tale centers on the husband-hunting evangelical women who’ve reached the denial phase of their failed Read more
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How Evangelical Leaders Gift-Wrapped Their Flocks for QAnon
Yesterday, I showed you the hilarious story of how evangelical leaders like Ed Stetzer got lapped and pushed right out of the pool by these conspiracy theorists. Today, we’ll go through the traits that evangelical leaders painstakingly instilled in their flocks — only to see those traits used against themselves in time.
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Spiritual Warfare: Translating the Christianese
With their grandiose language, spiritual warriors certainly sound impressive. Ah, but if you lift the hood of this Jesus-built hot rod, you’ll find nothing more under it than a pokey little jalopy engine. Today, Lord Snow Presides over the utter banality that spiritual warriors mask with over-the-top Christianese.
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Chris Watts: Virtue Signaling His Heart Out
Today, let me show you how Chris Watts is leveraging his understanding of evangelicals to seek freedom — through the magic of virtue signaling!
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How Greg Stier Thinks Teens Will Save Christianity
Today, let’s examine Greg Stier’s first piece of advice to the tribe — and see how well it works with reality.
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‘A Word from the Lord’ Still Doesn’t Make Sense (LSP #160)
Today, Lord Snow Presides over these bizarre little performances and how they’re used in authoritarian groups!