Magical Thinking

Finally, we enter the big scene Peretti set up as the big conflict from the...

We have a treat for you: Lisu has graciously written up part 2 of their...

The notion of spiritual warfare isn't new at all in fundagelicalism. In fact, it's a go-to...

Do the most extremist, authoritarian flavors of Christianity really have a monopoly on the best marriages...

Come join me for a weird ride through Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) politics, infighting, and...

Authoritarian Christians try hard to police how people share information and how they share it. Today,...

We've been talking lately about the rash of church closures in America. A figure of...

Recently, I mentioned a startling figure making the rounds in Christian-Land: this notion that 6000-10000...

A while ago, I wrote about why I deconverted. I've also written about some of...

In this report, the SBC introduces us to the people they hope will totally save...

Ex-Christians have a lot of shorthand ways of talking about how it feels to be...

For some stuff, there's no substitute for doing something the long way for a result...

We're going to look at Angelo Stagnaro, who wrote a post for a big Catholic...

The CPC also left out an awful lot of Bible verses that reveal that the...

I'll show you the weirdest and worst of those teachings here--and more importantly I'll show...

The religion's leaders 100% believe that there's some magical way to return Christianity to its...

Last time we met up, we were talking about Christian marketing and why it sucks....

To say the least, we haven't been, um, impressed by it a whole lot. And...

The biggest Protestant denomination in the United States continues to suffer serious churn in its...

One of the biggest ways that overzealous Christians reveal that their religious grandstanding is, well,...

Today we'll be discussing a uniquely Christian form of cold reading: their attempts to guess...

Christians often pull out the stops when they discover that one of us has left...

Wow, do Christians tend to hate the idea of naturalism. One apologetics site even calls...

It's funny to me that Christianity tends to jump with both feet on magic in...