Dueling Decals Reveal Why Forgiveness Fails.
If you hang out on Twitter, you might have seen a peculiar decal making the rounds: a stylized rainbow man embracing a stylized man printed with the Confederate flag. Beneath the figures is the slogan...
View ArticleEvangelicals are Rearranging Their Ship’s Deck Chairs Again.
Some readers tipped me off to the latest tempest-in-a-teapot going on in the fundagelical world lately. It didn't take long for me to notice that as usual, Christians are arguing about the wrong thing....
View ArticleOh Noes! The Baptism Drought Continues for the SBC!
The biggest Protestant denomination in the United States continues to suffer serious churn in its membership, and those of us who are rooting for its failure won't be disappointed to hear how they're...
View ArticleWithout Tax Exemptions, Christianity Will Collapse. (Sort Of.)
One of the most fascinating bits of fallout from the ongoing secularization of America is that we're starting to ask some questions now that would have been completely unthinkable 20 or 25 years ago....
View ArticleLove in the Time of Culture Wars.
Sometimes it's downright painful to see a Christian skate right up to the edge of understanding and then skitter and windmill away from it again. Richard Krejcir has managed that stunt in a post he...
View ArticleNOM: When Bad Guys Don’t Want to Be Bad Guys.
There's this charming little moment in the 1983 animated masterpiece-of-nuttery Rock & Rule that really brings home just how far a villain will go to see him- or herself as anything but the bad...
View ArticleThe Gaze of Dead Children Follows Me Today.
These stories are related. They both reflect an endemic issue within Christianity: its broken systems' inability to recognize basic human rights.
View ArticleWhen the Question Isn’t “Are They Hateful?” But Rather “Are They Hateful...
Russell Moore, one of the current presidents of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), is discovering what life is like for people who dissent from the tribe's opinions--and I don't think he likes it....
View ArticlePreston Sprinkle Still Doesn’t Get It.
So Preston Sprinkle went into the overflowing hopper of Christians Who Think They're Saying Something New and Exciting But Aren't, and we all moved on. Then around Easter I caught wind of him proudly...
View ArticleThe False Promise of Safety in the Broken System.
The criticism I have about religion really deals with the broken system that undergirds it: that marrow-deep dysfunction that pushes people to create a broken system, to join it, to celebrate it, to...
View ArticleCoercion and the Global Marketplace of Ideas.
The religion's leaders 100% believe that there's some magical way to return Christianity to its former power and dominance through marketing and superior sales techniques. This notion is just another...
View ArticleAnother Christian Band Bites the Dust.
I saw this one video the other day and thought it was really good--but something twigged in my memory about the band in it. From there, I began tallying up similar bands, and now I've got to ask:...
View ArticleEugene Peterson: the Christian Right’s Newest Messy Object Lesson.
The bizarre spectacle of their vicious, over-the-top response to his statement demonstrates two things. First, it shows us that they know that the greatest threat to their longed-for return to power...
View ArticleWhere the Blame Roosts: Gay Catholic Orgies Edition.
The response of Christians to this news isn't surprising, but it is very telling. In an age when Christians simply can't bury negative news stories like this one, they're finding new response tactics...
View ArticleThe Different Types of Christian Ghosting.
Today I'll show you the two kinds of Christian ghosting, how prevalent ghosting has become in that community, and a very likely reason for why it's happening so much lately. And in the doing, maybe...
View ArticleA Celestial Extortionist and His Sycophants
Even I couldn't have predicted the extent of that opportunism, however--though I could easily have told the opportunists involved here just how badly these ploys will backfire. Meet the Disaster...
View ArticleMore Bad News for Christianity: The PRRI Survey
The 2017 PRRI study, America's Changing Religious Identity, has brought the religion's leaders yet more bad news. And their response has been predictable.
View ArticleThe September 23rd Endtimes Scare and the Problem with Wingnuts.
This Endtimes scare has gotten quite a lot of pushback from actual astronomers--and from some big names in Christianity as well. We were mainly looking at the real-world pushback against the prediction...
View ArticleSoda’s Back on the (BYU) Menu, Folks.
The administrators of BYU recently made a proclamation that really drives home exactly how out-of-touch Mormon leaders are with the next generation--and how desperate they are to win that generation...
View ArticleThe Mormon Church Has Reminded Us Again That We’re the Future… and They’re Not.
The Mormon Church recently let us know recently how they will be handling their future as a religion. When I saw what they had to say, I thought about Max Planck's words--and I'll show you why today.
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