Lately, we’ve been checking out the friendship evangelism techniques pushed by a minor evangelical leader named Larry Dixon. For a few years now, he’s been on a tear about the benefits of being an evangelical like himself. We’ll talk more about the specific entries in this 52-part series later, but Read more
Long, long ago I fully believed in the power of prayer. I believed that a real live god stood by to receive my prayers, then granted them out of love for me—except, of course, when he didn’t grant them at all. In this way, I was like most Christians today. Read more
Years ago, I noticed that quite a few younger evangelicals strive mightily to practice what I’ve come to call Weird Christianity. It’s equal parts oneupsmanship, Original Christianity, and yearning for something genuine and real in their religion full of false claims. So Weird Christianity scratches all kinds of itches in Read more
Rock of ages, cleft for me, still rolling, rock n rolling! It’s Ray Comfort vs the Rock: Who will win their second round?
The evangelical money train still has a few stops to make and a few sheep yet to fleece, and nowhere can we see that fact illustrated by the fact that Ray Comfort still has a career.
Prophecy fulfills a very important role in evangelical culture, one that they can’t bear to lose even if it means countless failures and humiliations. They’d rather keep prophesying than stop and miss out on those many benefits.
The Moral Argument is only getting more popular with time. But it’s a terrible argument, and here’s why.
We’re now on Chapter 12 of Before You Lose Your Faith. In this chapter, Joshua Ryan Butler tries—and utterly fails—to solve the eternal thorn in Hell-believing Christians’ side: The Problem of Hell. There’s a good reason why these thorns get capitalized names, of course. No Hell-believer has ever managed to Read more
Utu, the Sumerian sun god and lord of justice, would NEVER.
This time around, we will be told that we’re not allowed to entertain doubts or form opinions without hearing all the testimonies that Thaddeus Williams thinks demonstrate the validity of his tribe’s culture wars. Unfortunately for him, they’re nowhere near as persuasive as he thinks they are.