Reading Time: 9 minutes Chick tract evangelism is a subset of tract evangelism, which itself is a subset of personal evangelism. This rare evangelical beast has become endangered in recent years. Let’s see how it lives in the wild—before it’s too late to see it at all.
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The evangelical response so far to ‘Nones’ outnumbering them
Reading Time: 11 minutes Pew Research just released a bunch of surveys and studies about Nones. At 28% of America’s adult population, they now outnumber both Catholics (23%) and evangelicals (24%).
Evangelicals have never taken their decline well, and they are not about to start now.
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Trump or DeSantis: Who would Jesus endorse?
Reading Time: 11 minutes Evangelicals continue to argue with each other about who should be on the Republican ballot for the next election: Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis. Each camp has its own vehement opinion.
Invoking divine authority to bolster one’s claims is a long-beloved evangelical pastime. Here, it just makes them look ridiculous.
Posted inPhilosophy
The myth of personhood on a wartorn Christmas morn
Reading Time: 9 minutes Bethlehem is a city in mourning this year: quiet, with its usual tourist venues shuttered for weeks on account of the war in Gaza, and with very little of the joy that Christians usually associate with the season. As the mythology goes in Luke 2, an angel descended after the birth of Jesus Christ, and […]
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Why Pope Francis just nose-thwacked a dissenting cardinal
Reading Time: 7 minutes Pope Francis finally made a direct attack on one of his major critics in the extremist, hardliner faction of Catholicism—US Cardinal Raymond Burke. The timing is no coincidence. It’s one more indication that the ailing organization is teetering on the brink of schism.
Posted inLeaving Religion
The Remnant: That evangelical need to feel picked-on and special
Reading Time: 14 minutes The concept of the remnant is upper-level Christianese. It’s an Extremely Important Word for evangelicals that relates to something they hold especially dear: themselves.
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Yet again, Southern Baptist leaders caught making life harder for sex abuse victims
Reading Time: 7 minutes Four high-profile Southern Baptist Convention group leaders quietly filed an amicus brief opposing a sex abuse victim’s lawsuit in Kentucky. This lawsuit had nothing to do with them or the SBC, but if successful it could drastically alter the scope and number of lawsuits the SBC faces from similar victims.
Posted inPhilosophy
Trump and ‘our religion’ demonstrate evangelicals’ ongoing endgame crisis
Reading Time: 7 minutes In recent months, Donald Trump has been talking about bringing back the anti-Muslim immigration ban from his single term in office.
His white evangelical fanbase loves it. Almost ten years into their decline, they are more touchy than ever about losing credibility and cultural power.
Posted inLeaving Religion
Crisis averted! Ken Ham knows why evangelicals ‘lost Gen Z’
Reading Time: 10 minutes Ken Ham says evangelicals have ‘lost Gen Z’ because he and his ilk can no longer indoctrinate children in public schools.
We explore his claims and figure out where the blame really rests.
Posted inLeaving Religion
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 functions of church affiliation. If someone was really intensely involved in their church, leaving it can feel like they’ve severed their entire sense of belonging and community! But even that claim is constantly being questioned and rejected. Recently, […]