Not long ago, I ran across a Cru handout of Tim Keller’s “Deconstructing Defeater Beliefs: Leading the Secular to Christ.” In it, he details what he calls these defeater beliefs, which he thinks are beliefs that make Christian claims seem less plausible. But his response to them is anything but Read more
After a new round of people treating belief in Jesus like an essential vitamin every human needs, I want to show you why that’s not true. Faith in Jesus isn’t like Vitamin C. Humans don’t need it like that. Nor can we fail to meet all our emotional needs without Read more
If it’s a day ending in -Y, then we have a new sex abuse scandal erupting out of evangelicalism. This time, it involves Wheaton College—one of the biggest names around in evangelical education—and a former high-ranking admin there named Dennis Massaro. According to various reports, for decades this college protected Read more
Recently, we talked about the downfall of G3 ministries after trying to drag Tom Ascol into a minor sermon-plagiarism scandal. These days, Tom Ascol is one of the biggest voices in the ultra-hardline Old Guard faction of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). So it’s extremely important for him to model Read more
Al Mohler is a big-name Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leader, and he is also the worst kind of bootlicking worm: He moves to place himself right at optimal licking distance by carefully following the boots. He’s not even subtle about it. In a September 2nd article in Baptist Press, we Read more
In the 2010s, Christians began noticing that their religion had entered a period of decline. For a while, the hints of it were subtle enough to ignore, so most of them did just that. But eventually, it got too obvious and protracted to do that anymore. Evangelicals in particular evolved Read more
Over the years, I’ve heard my share of nonsensical and weird evangelism advice to Christians. Effectiveness stopped being a concern ages ago, replaced by just getting out there and trying to evangelize. But one bit of that advice stands out as the worst I’ve ever heard. It stands head and Read more
There’s a new sex abuse database on the block: Protestant Accountability. As the name suggests, it gathers and compiles information about any Protestant minister accused of sex abuse or the shielding of sex abusers. Especially now that the biggest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), has apparently decided to Read more
For years now, evangelicals have not been keeping up appearances with their prophecies. Gone are the exciting days when a big-name pastor could mangle basic astronomy and bellow about the SUPER BLOOD WOLF MOON, or play Bible anagrams to predict the RAPTURE for sure this time. Their predictions for 2025 Read more
Recently, people have been talking about evangelism in crowded spaces with no way to exit—evangelism to captive audiences, in other words. The evangelists in question do it on purpose, of course. They even gloat about how much they love the fact that nobody can leave the venue. But their gloating Read more