Reading Time: 12 minutes Thanks to the folks at the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC), we FINALLY have the SBC’s 2022 Annual Report.
Evangelical Churn
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Bart Barber: Helping Southern Baptists decline even faster
Reading Time: 8 minutes The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) recently elected Bart Barber to be its newest president. Barber hails from a very small country church in northeast Texas, which he thinks is a good example to the rest of the denomination. He’s also the new leader of his faction, the Pretend Progressives, so he’s busy trying to deal […]
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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 ideas.
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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, the Super Bowl. That’s because every summer, the biggest evangelical denomination of ’em all, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), holds its Annual Meeting and releases its Annual Report. In every Annual Report, the denomination’s leaders share the SBC’s […]
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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 Christian sales pitches now more than ever. Today, let me show you how Christians use this beloved Christianese phrase, and what reality has to say about the matter.
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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 visit to the potty without them helping him every step of the way.
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Pastoral burnout on the rise (again)
Reading Time: 9 minutes There might not be a Big Quit as such, but what there is instead might be way worse. It’s not so much about empty pulpits, but more about ’empty preachers.’
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Our creepy evangelical Easter evangelism exhortation is here
Reading Time: 13 minutes This busy Easter season, Ben Mandrell wants evangelicals to see him as a valid source of advice for learning to evangelize without losing one’s friends. But he has no idea how to do it himself.
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Church membership as a product in search of demand
Reading Time: 7 minutes Christianity itself became superfluous a while ago for a lot of Americans, and church leaders simply can’t deal with that fact. Well, most of them. Today, we’ll meet a Christian leader who has a better perspective on his religion’s decline.
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Why evangelical youth ministers can’t ‘innovate’
Reading Time: 10 minutes Caught between the devil of a church model that many evangelical leaders openly criticize and the deep blue sea of an empty youth ministry, evangelical youth ministers have little choice.