Analyzing Christianity
How Calvinists created the SBC’s fixation on inerrancy
Calvinists spoke Southern Baptists’ language—and then turned it against them.
Analyzing Christianity
Calvinism and Arminianism in the New SBC Power Squabble
Calvinism and its counterpart, Arminianism, and how they factor into the SBC’s current power squabbles.
Analyzing Christianity
The Two Factions Forming in the SBC Right Now
Today, let me show you what these two factions are, the major players involved, and the group they’ve both chosen as their focus.
SBC Watching
LifeWay is on a continuing spiral to the bottom
LifeWay is the publishing and propaganda arm of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) — and easily the denomination’s biggest and most influential subgroup. But in recent years, LifeWay looks more and more like a star that is falling. Today, let me catch you up on what’s going on with this evangelical publishing company — and show you why their most recent leader reflects this dysfunctional group’s covert goals a lot better than its stated ones.
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Well, Well: LifeWay Is SUING Former CEO Thom Rainer
Today, let me show you what’s going on with the LifeWay lawsuit against Thom Rainer, and how TRUE CHRISTIANS™ ignore everything in the Bible whenever it becomes expedient. Also, I’ll show you the Christianese these folks are using to try to get their way!
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Where Thom Rainer’s ‘Tipping Point’ Changed (and Why)
In his 2018 blog post, he warned his readers that American churches were cruising toward a ‘tipping point.’ Today, let me show you what Thom Rainer meant by that — and how his song-and-dance patter has changed since then.
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Autopsy: Thom Rainer’s 12-Step Church Revitalization Plan
Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, I showed you a 2014 book by Thom Rainer, Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 12 Ways to Keep Yours Alive. As the title indicates, the book describes how evangelical churches wither away and die — and how to prevent that from happening to the reader’s own Read more
Analyzing Christianity
Thom Rainer’s ‘Autopsy’ Needs Churches to Totally Change Now Please
In essence, ‘Autopsy’ demands that evangelical churches become something besides what they are and always have been: gratification stations for the self-declared chosen elite ambassadors of King American-Jesus Superman.
SBC Watching
How J.D. Greear’s ‘Evangelism Ethos’ Is Going For the SBC
Hi and welcome back! Today, our presses got stopped cold by some breaking news from the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). It seems that last year, they suffered their single worst drop in membership in a century! The news follows the denomination’s struggles with money, an ongoing sex abuse scandal, constant Read more
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Teen Baptisms Are Down (Still!) in the SBC
The SBC tracks baptisms-by-age-group — and they’re alarmed about just how far teenage baptisms have plummeted. That trend doesn’t seem to be anywhere near reversing, either. Today, let me show you a decline that gives me a lot of hope for the future.