Analyzing Christianity
Evangelicals aren’t coping well with deconstruction
I do not recognize my experiences in this belligerent fundagelical’s listicle. But that’s kind of the point, in a way.
Analyzing Christianity
Why Christians push a false narrative of hopelessness
Christians’ false narrative of hopelessness represents a big part of their current marketing to their target customers. But in truth, it only worsens the actual hopelessness that their salespeople claim to be alleviating.
The Games We Play
The Evolving Appeal of Cinderella (LSP #189)
As narratives go, Cinderella has alternated between capturing American women’s imaginations to repelling them, then back again to charming them. Today, Lord Snow Presides over a fairy tale that speaks to how we feel, ultimately, about relationships — and people are examining this age-old love narrative from a modern perspective.
The Games We Play
The midpoint slog in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #137, Ch. 21)
In this installment, we trudge through the midpoint plots one by one, without regard for good storytelling of any kind. Today, Lord Snow Presides over the midpoint slog in This Present Darkness.
Analyzing Christianity
The anatomy of doublespeak: That ACBC conference
Last time I talked about a recent conference held at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. At the time I was concentrating more on a speech given there by Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leader Al Mohler regarding reparative therapy. Today I want to delve more deeply into the errors of the conference itself because I think it serves as a firm declaration by evangelicals that despite being consistently defeated in every single way imaginable, they still aren’t ready to give up on the idea of bigotry-for-Jesus.
The Games We Play
The love narrative of ‘The Last Unicorn’
Our journey into both love and that happy land of books you really should have read by now and if you haven’t, then you should definitely consider it continues today with The Last Unicorn, by Peter S. Beagle. In this book, the author plays with narratives about love. He gently teases them, toys with them, and ultimately honors them.