File this under Fork Found in Drawer: An evangelical with no psychology training or experience publishes an almost-certainly 100% AI-written essay on an evangelical news site about how awful psychology is at really, truly fixing people’s emotional and mental health problems. There’s just something magical about someone in the most Read more
In the 2010s, Christians began noticing that their religion had entered a period of decline. For a while, the hints of it were subtle enough to ignore, so most of them did just that. But eventually, it got too obvious and protracted to do that anymore. Evangelicals in particular evolved Read more
Spotted recently: This August 27th think piece in The Economist about how AI is changing religious believers and what religious leaders think of that shift—and how they want to control it. It’s an incredible self-own in a number of ways on their part. They know they can’t defeat it, so Read more
There’s a new sex abuse database on the block: Protestant Accountability. As the name suggests, it gathers and compiles information about any Protestant minister accused of sex abuse or the shielding of sex abusers. Especially now that the biggest Protestant denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), has apparently decided to Read more
Christians nearly universally believe that their god never lies to them. He only tells them the absolute truth. In fact, he’s compelled by his nature to tell only the truth. But if he never lies to them, then they have a lot of hand-waving to do to rationalize away the Read more
Recently, people have been talking about evangelism in crowded spaces with no way to exit—evangelism to captive audiences, in other words. The evangelists in question do it on purpose, of course. They even gloat about how much they love the fact that nobody can leave the venue. But their gloating Read more
Just over ten years ago, big-name apologetics hustlers realized that Christianity was fully and truly in decline. These apologists embarked on a new narrative: That their product, apologetics, would turn the ship around and get Christianity back into cultural dominance. Today, let’s check out their grand visions and predictions—and see Read more
In Alpha Course 15, we learn all about divine healing: Why it happens, how to interpret a lack of healing, and the enormous effect these miracles have on evangelism and one’s own personal faith. But along the way, the hosts accidentally reveal that miracles don’t really happen—and that they’ll do Read more
Evangelicals have no shortage of advice about becoming a good listener. It’s one of their main evangelism strategies, after all! Being a good listener involves a number of soft skills, however, and evangelicals really can’t practice any of them without serious challenges to their beliefs. They find themselves, therefore, in Read more
This year at the Southern Baptist Annual Meeting (nicknamed SBC26 by the flocks), the faithful attendees got quite an interesting eyeful along the road: A billboard offering Bible verses that support women’s ordination to church leadership positions over both men and other women. Nothing is funnier than Christians dueling about Read more