Reading Time: 5 minutes The moment I began reading that Lee Strobel, an atheist-turned-evangelist, has released a documentary called A Case for Heaven about his own near-death experience, as well as the NDEs of others, my mind went back to the Malarkey saga dating back 18 years. Alex Malarkey, then six, was badly injured in a car crash that […]
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James MacDonald Is Out of the Evangelical Crony Network
Reading Time: 9 minutes Today, let me show you what the evangelical crony network is saying (or rather, not saying) about the recent behavior of James MacDonald.
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When Lee Strobel Accidentally Illustrated the Nonexistent Power of Prayer
Reading Time: 7 minutes Happy Fourth of July! Today, I want to offer a funny palate cleanser for our holiday — something I noticed while researching the Unchurched series. In this little tidbit, you see, Lee Strobel accidentally illustrated the completely nonexistent power of prayer. I wonder if anybody in his audience even noticed? But I did, and now I’ll show you […]
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Unchurched: Talking to the Voices in Their Heads
Reading Time: 8 minutes Hi and welcome back! Of late, we’ve been focusing on Lee Strobel’s 1993 book, Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary. Decades after its publication, it remains completely au courant. Evangelicals still use the strategies in this book, and they still believe the many, many lies that its author tells about atheists. But there’s more to the […]
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Unchurched: My Actual ‘Sticking Points’ Don’t Look Like These
Reading Time: 10 minutes Hi and welcome back! Lately, we’ve been talking about Lee Strobel’s 1993 Christian book, Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary. In this book, Strobel offers his evangelical followers a peek into the minds of those outside their church bubbles. Ostensibly, he offers these insights along with strategies for recruiting those folks — though the insights […]
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The ‘Sticking Points’ Lee Strobel Can’t Believe (Unchurched)
Reading Time: 8 minutes Today, let me show you what ‘sticking points’ are in Strobel-Land, his laughably ineffective and offensive tips for ferreting them out, and finally how they actually function in his paradigm as an excuse for evangelism failure.
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Unchurched: Lee Strobel, the Atheist Whisperer
Reading Time: 9 minutes Allo allo! Lately, we’ve been talking about Lee Strobel’s 1993 Christian book, Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary. In it, he pushes very hard on his pre-conversion life as totally-an-atheist-y’all. However, it didn’t take long for me to notice that his version of atheism doesn’t look anything like actual atheism. That striking incongruence gets really dramatically […]
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Unchurched: Lee Strobel’s Semi-Sales Reveal the Truth
Reading Time: 6 minutes I noticed something recently about the way he talks about sales success, and now I can’t un-see this very dishonest-seeming way he has of describing what little success he enjoys with his very own strategy. In fact, his few successes can be described better as semi-sales rather than closed deals. Today, let me show you what I saw.
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Unchurched: Some of Lee Strobel’s Best Friends
Reading Time: 8 minutes Today, let’s look at Lee Strobel’s totally real atheist friends — and how his own words completely destroy that claim.
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Unchurched: The Coin Lee Strobel Offers
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi and welcome back! Let’s turn now to an important idea in Lee Strobel’s 1993 book, Inside the Mind of Unchurched Harry and Mary. A big part of the book involves Lee Strobel’s sales strategies for Christian flocks. And a big part of his suggestions there involve Christians creating a sense of social obligation in […]