Analyzing Christianity
Prayer: Why Christians always ‘forget to pray’
If prayer worked even in the bastardized way that Southern Baptists think it works, nobody’d ever need reminding to do it.
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Matt Chandler, yet another hardline evangelical, has fallen like so many others
Well, well, well. The leader of The Village Church (TVC), Matt Chandler, has finally gotten caught doing something off-limits enough to his church board that he had to take a leave of absence. I’m sure the stories about it vastly minimize what actually happened, but nobody will be shocked to Read more
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Just Christian Things: Confusing wisdom with self-discipline, then failing to offer a roadmap for cultivating either quality
Technology has nothing to do with evangelicals’ lack of wisdom or their disobedience. We can lay both of those problems at the feet of evangelicalism itself.
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How evangelicals get love wrong, as usual
A long time ago, I talked about the way that evangelicals redefine common words. Their redefinition of love figured prominently on that list. That was nearly ten years ago. And today, I see that they’re still redefining that word.
SBC Watching
Southern Baptist extremists seem to be fomenting schism (again)
As the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) continues to decline, two factions have taken to the field of battle. They both want to rule this massive money-making engine. But only one can win the crown. The faction that’s been losing nowadays seems to have focused on another tactic: deliberately fomenting schism
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Jesus sure changes people: Ted Haggard Edition
When I hear about evangelical sex scandals, I’m usually just relieved if everyone involved is of-age. But that’s about to change with this Ted Haggard story.
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The Religious Right has not ‘distorted the faith,’ but revealed it for what it is
In 2006, Randall Balmer accused evangelicals in the Religious Right of wrecking evangelicalism. But they didn’t. Christianity itself did.
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Wingnut Christians: Analyzing their claims
This J. Robert Smith fella definitely tells his TRUE CHRISTIAN™ audience what they desperately want to hear. (To put it in Christianese, he tickles their ears. And that’s not a good thing.)
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Anatomy of a false persecution claim: THE EVER-LURKING THREAT (of love and kindness)
Authoritarians hate a lot of people. But they hate apostates far more than anybody else. An apostate is a threat and a danger, one which must be eliminated immediately and with as much force as can be mustered.
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Why Southern Baptists weren’t part of the Native Americans abuse report
Recently, the United States government finished the first part of its investigation into federally-funded boarding schools that abused Native Americans. As you might expect, it’s a dark read. Primarily, it reveals that for 150 years, the American government used these schools to systematically destroy Native Americans’ culture. Worse, the government Read more