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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.

What do the Dwell/Xenos leaders hate: Accountability
Reading Time: 10 minutes Dwell Community Church (formerly Xenos Christian Fellowship) can’t catch a break!…

Southern Baptists snub Old Guard hard at 2022 Annual Meeting
Reading Time: 9 minutes The Old Guard expressed some very strong feelings about this election. But the meeting’s attendees had other…

Discernment: The Pope keeps giving Christians this awful advice
Reading Time: 10 minutes Across the length and breadth of Christendom, discernment means the ability to tell if something is divine,…

Ronnie Floyd got dissed hard by the Southern Baptist Convention Sexual Abuse Task Force
Reading Time: 9 minutes Oh, the task force’s recommendations doesn’t mention him by name. But the stomping happened nonetheless. Today, let…

‘Use as example’: Southern Baptist self-protection in action
Reading Time: 11 minutes The whole document is horrifying reading. But one line in it particularly caught my eye. It read,…

What you need to know about the Southern Baptist sex abuse report
Reading Time: 7 minutes Today, let me show you some of the key features of this report and its recommendations.

2022 Annual Report: Another bad year for the Southern Baptist Convention
Reading Time: 9 minutes Every summer, evangelical-watchers enter their equivalent of March Madness. Of the World Series. Of, dare I declare,…

Baptists think they know exactly how to avoid deception
Reading Time: 11 minutes Back when I was Pentecostal, I found myself debating a pair of Southern Baptist guys. At the…

The reality of people being ‘hungry for the Word’
Reading Time: 9 minutes In the Christ-o-sphere, people have always been hungry for the Word, even if in reality they reject…

Evangelist recruiters and the omnimax god who needs human help
Reading Time: 9 minutes Christians demonstrate by their actions that they know perfectly well their god couldn’t manage to arrange a…
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