
Captain Cassidy
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“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.

Rapture Rapture everywhere, and not an empty pile of clothes to be found
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A number of Christians confidently predicted that the Rapture would occur…

Another scandal hits PornHub—this time an alleged rape ‘loophole’
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PornHub has vigorously denied that a rape ‘loophole’ allows users to upload videos of sexual assaults as…

Churchless believers and Nones are finding community without church
Reading Time: 8 minutes One of the few remaining marketing claims Christians can (sometimes) use honestly involves the social and community-building…

Another demographic time bomb goes off for evangelicals
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A recent Barna survey shows churches having trouble finding pastors: first, because there are simply fewer Christians…

Antiprocess: How we dodge uncomfortable information without even trying
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Engaging meaningfully with new information is a process. Avoiding that engagement is called antiprocess. When it comes…

Shots fired: Pope Francis goes after US Catholic hardliners
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While meeting with Jesuits in Portugal, Pope Francis, the first Jesuit pope, lamented how ‘backward’ American Catholic…

More big drama for the Southern Baptist Executive Committee
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) just can’t get away from nonstop drama. This…

Ammon Bundy knows why Republican politicians lie: It works like a charm
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Scholars have long known that conservative politics and media distort and mischaracterize reality. This distorted reality insulates…

The Healy wearable: Just a newer, weirder multi-level marketing scheme
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The Healy wearable has only a very limited FDA clearance. But its claims go much, much further…

The Atlantic accidentally reveals Christianity’s growing irrelevance
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Another evangelical, another missed guess at how American Christianity can recover its lost membership and credibility.
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