For years now, I’ve kept an eye on evangelicals’ growing distress over what they call ‘Biblical illiteracy’ —the flocks’ growing ignorance of doctrines and Bible stories that their leaders consider essential knowledge. But as America continues to secularize, non-Christians are losing familiarity with the Bible as well. A recent Washington Read more
Recently, a gospel singer named Solomon Ray saw his songs climb to the top of the Christian music heap—but there’s a catch! He’s an AI created by right-wing rapper named Topher. More than that, the AI’s music is created in an AI program called Suno. This isn’t even the first Read more
As we’ve been checking out the app ‘Text With Jesus‘, I’ve noticed that right-wing Christians tend to laser-focus on one criticism above all: The presence of ‘Satan’ as part of the lineup of this app’s AI chatbot personalities. Today, let’s check out their consternation and fretting—and see why they’re right Read more
Last time we met up, I showed you ‘Text With Jesus’, an AI chatbot app that lets users text with all kinds of Christian personalities. Over on the Discord, our community had a lot of fun thinking of questions to ask this app’s personalities. Here are some of our questions—along Read more
Many years ago, evangelicals wielded apologetics as weapons against their worst enemies: atheists. They lost not only their battles but the entire Keyboard Wars themselves, then retreated into their current walled-garden enclaves on social media. But a community member noticed a video that might just mark the return of those Read more
In a recent creepy Handmaid’s Tale-style address, Pope Francis warned his followers about social media-induced brain rot. But that should be nowhere near his biggest worry. Though he doesn’t appear to realize it, he actually advised Catholics to develop the exact mental skills that have freed millions of people already Read more
Antiprocess fascinates me. Instead of helping us process new information, antiprocess helps us avoid doing that. And it does so to protect our egos from any challenges to dearly-held beliefs. One story that recently got a lot of attention illustrates how this works on not one but both sides of Read more
Christians do love miracles. After all, miracles represent PROOF YES PROOF that their god actually exists when nothing else would give anyone such an impression! Plus, Christians consider miracles part of the benefits package that they get for belonging to Christianity at all. Without active membership in the club, they Read more
Last week, I introduced you to a real live ‘Gen Z expert,’ Tanita Maddox. As I noted at the time, Maddox has been very busy writing articles and recording videos about her subject matter for other evangelicals, who apparently know absolutely no Gen Z people. One of her articles of Read more
In recent years, we’ve talked a lot about evangelicals’ utter inability to appeal to Gen Z. But the latest approach I saw at Christian Post (archive) might take the cake for potential hilarity. Opinion post writer Tanita Tualla Maddox has made a few suggestions that sound like they will backfire catastrophically Read more