Reading Time: 9 minutes Yesterday, I offered you an overview of the personal-level strategy he suggests, friendship evangelism. Today, I want to show you Lee Strobel’s absolutely callous and blatantly opportunistic twist on that old, old strategy.
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Lee Strobel’s Actual Product: Seeker-Sensitive Churches (#9-12)
Reading Time: 10 minutes Hi and welcome back! I woke up super-late with a migraine and had to take medication for it, so no blitzed movie review today. But that’s fine, cuz we still have Lee Strobel’s dumb list to work our way through. In this installment, we cover observations 9-12. Here, we see exactly what this apologist’s product really […]
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The Idaho Earthquake Is NOT A Sign of the Endtimes, Sorry
Reading Time: 7 minutes Just as I was wrapping up my post yesterday evening, my state experienced a very strong earthquake. Immediately, fundagelicals leapt into action by declaring it a sign of the Endtimes. Today, let me show you a little bit about what this prediction involves, why fundagelicals keep making failed predictions like it, and what’s really going on here.
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Christian Leaders and the Non-Solutions They Love
Reading Time: 8 minutes There’s an insidious side to these streams of unreasonable demands. Today, I’ll show you what authoritarians’ non-solutions involve — and why they can’t change gears now.
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Ed Stetzer Wants Evangelicals to Just Calm Down Here
Reading Time: 10 minutes Ed Stetzer wrote a recent post seeking to reassure his tribe, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). He wants them to stop panicking about their kids’ disengagement from Christianity. But this attempt backfires in the end, just like everything else the SBC is doing to halt its decline.
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The SBC Might Finally Be Addressing Their Sex Scandals, Except Not (LSP #53)
Reading Time: 8 minutes Today, I’ll show you what they might be finally getting right on this topic, and what they are decidedly getting wrong. Lord Snow Presides over the SBC’s predictable response to its own self-created problems.
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A Tale of Two Non-Solutions: The NEW new plans to fix evangelical churn
Reading Time: 8 minutes While we wait for the big Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) 2018 Annual Report, I thought it’d be fun to look at how their two nominees for the SBC presidency proposed to fix their decline. We can take a lesson from their example–but I don’t think they can.
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Why the Christian Right’s Sex Scandals Are Only Increasing With Time
Reading Time: 11 minutes Another day, another bunch of scandals erupting out of fundagelical Christianity, and yet more predators exposed. Nobody’s even surprised by any of it anymore; it’s all become just part of our cultural landscape: hypocrites gonna hypocrite. I’m just wondering when people are going to realize the sheer scope of this situation. Fundagelicals are facing an endemic, entrenched sex abuse scandal.
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The God-Shaped Wound
Reading Time: 14 minutes For many years, Christians have been trying to convince everyone that human beings have a “god-shaped hole” in their beings that cries out for belief in their particular god to fill it. Today I’ll show you what that saying means, why it’s wrong, and how its latest permutation is working out for one batch of Christians struggling to maintain belief long past the point where it makes no sense at all to keep doing it.
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Ken Ham’s Creationists Know Exactly How to Reverse Evangelical Churn
Reading Time: 12 minutes Ken Ham says that he totally thinks that families that do not already buy into Creationism will choose to spend their vacations at his park rather than at Disney World or the Smithsonian Institution–and from there become persuaded of his fringe religious beliefs. Shall we see together how likely that pipe dream is to become reality?