Captain Cassidy
ROLL TO DISBELIEVE
“Captain Cassidy” is Cassidy McGillicuddy, a Gen Xer and ex-Pentecostal. (The title is metaphorical.) She writes about the intersection of psychology, belief, popular culture, science, politics, the arts, and gaming — video, board, tabletop, whatever. She lives in Idaho with her husband, Mr. Captain, and their squawky orange cat, Princess Bother Pretty Toes the First. No matter how many bookcases she stuffs into her house, at any given time she’s running out of bookcase space.
Farewell, OnlySky
Reading Time: 4 minutes All good things come to an end. Everything changes in one…
AI: The newest squirrel distracting evangelicals from their own decline
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Evangelicals have expressed both dread regarding AI’s popularity and power, and excitement about its potential to turn…
Southern Baptist Frank Page can’t escape his past
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Frank Page has a decades-long and well-established history of not wanting to investigate sex abuse in Southern…
The tragic life cycle of the Chick tract evangelism campaign
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Chick tract evangelism is a subset of tract evangelism, which itself is a subset of personal evangelism.…
Southern Baptist leaders release new analysis of their decline
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This analysis contains some information we don’t usually see out of the Southern Baptist Convention, including an…
The evangelical response so far to ‘Nones’ outnumbering them
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Pew Research just released a bunch of surveys and studies about Nones. At 28% of America’s adult…
Trump or DeSantis: Who would Jesus endorse?
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Evangelicals continue to argue with each other about who should be on the Republican ballot for the…
Southern Baptists have a serious Paul Pressler problem
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In 2017, a man sued Pressler for sexual abuse. Seven other men eventually came forward with similar…
Ammon Bundy is on the run—and still blustering at his followers
Reading Time: 22 minutes Ammon Bundy is one of the lackluster sons of infamous “welfare queen in a cowboy hat” Cliven…
Duke University expands its reiki pseudoscience program
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Reiki is not real medicine. It’s just pseudoscience. But modern hospitals and medical systems are offering it…
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