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July 2019

July 13, 2019
Today, I want to show you something called an affinity scam, and then draw some comparisons...
July 11, 2019
If you ever found yourself teetering on the fence about this religion, then this post...
July 09, 2019
This type of business, church revitalization, might well be one of post-Christian America's most lucrative cottage...
July 08, 2019
Here, we continue our examination of Frank Peretti's somehow-bestselling fantasy novel This Present Darkness. In Chapter...
July 06, 2019
Thom Rainer just retired from LifeWay. Immediately afterward, he plunged full-time into his new old...
July 04, 2019
Hi! Today, I thought it'd be fun to take a day to look back at...
July 02, 2019
A funny-weird, rather than a funny-haha experience provoked today's post. It sent me on a...
July 01, 2019
We've talked about all kinds of stuff about the novel and its historical context. Today,...

June 2019

June 29, 2019
The SBC's leaders deployed two main strategies: pretending to care about the abuse scandal that's...
June 27, 2019
These SBC leaders settled on a strategy long familiar to secular women: they acted very,...
June 25, 2019
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) just had its big Annual Meeting this year. There, they...
June 24, 2019
Today I wanted to catch everyone up on the State of the Blog--and hints about...
June 22, 2019
This time around, our brave widdle culture warriors flew into a lather over a television...
June 20, 2019
Since we've been talking about the SBC's decline generally lately, it fits in quite well....
June 18, 2019
It's hard to tell which is worse: the sex-abuse scandal as it is, or the...
June 17, 2019
Written at the height of the Satanic Panic back in the 1980s, this novel provides...
June 15, 2019
From all the Daddy God blathering to the Heavenly Father crowd, Christians can't resist comparing...
June 13, 2019
This time around, the SBC's 2019 Annual Meeting has a slightly different flavor. And some...
June 11, 2019
The 'Abuse of Faith' scandal happened right on the heels of the denomination's other sex-abuse...
June 10, 2019
We meet an honest-to-goodness demon, learn about the dangers of higher education, see fundagelical parenting...
June 08, 2019
Today, let me show you some of the questions I had about Heaven. In their...
June 06, 2019
Dungeons & Dragons somehow, against all odds, became an animated TV show in 1983. My sister...
June 04, 2019
Deconversion opened up a whole new capacity to make observations and ask questions that I'd...
June 03, 2019
In this installment, we discover Magical Christian Jesus Powers that only TRUE CHRISTIANS™ can possess--and...
June 01, 2019
Last year, the SBC managed to slightly slow down its tanking baptism rate. It reminded...

May 2019

May 30, 2019
As public understanding of and backlash against MLMs grows, the people caught up in these...
May 28, 2019
Today, I want to catch you up on news from the MLM world. In addition...
May 27, 2019
This poorly-written book helped elevate the Satanic Panic in Christian imaginations--and shaped their conceptualization of spiritual...
May 25, 2019
Before their convention every year, SBC leaders like to offer up some sneak peeks at...
May 23, 2019
Today, I offer up a recent blog post from none other than Thom Rainer, one...
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