Reading Time: 17 minutes Another evangelical, another missed guess at how American Christianity can recover its lost membership and credibility.
The Gospel Coalition (TGC)
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Why no evangelicals stopped Joshua Butler’s toxic marriage suggestions
Reading Time: 14 minutes You’d think someone might have told the guy much earlier that his ideas perpetuated some really sickening and toxic dynamics between spouses. But nobody did. Really, nobody could have.
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Why Evangelicals Lean So Hard on Original Christianity
Reading Time: 7 minutes In an age when evangelicals’ only product — group membership — is more and more tainted and unwanted by the day, all Tim Keller’s got is lying his face off to try to at least retain a few butts in pews (BIPs) before they realize it’s all fake and bleed out the back door.
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Bitter: How Evangelical Women Cope With Their Seething Anger
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi and welcome back! Last week, we talked about anger. Then, a few days ago, we touched on how evangelicals treat women’s anger completely differently. Indeed, evangelicals have a whole word that pertains almost solely to the anger of women: bitter. Today, I’ll show you the tribe’s quirky definition of this word — and how […]
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Of hybrid embryos, human rights, and moral high grounds
Reading Time: 8 minutes Scientists recently created some surprisingly long-lasting hybrid monkey-human embryos. Today, let me show you this discovery, why some people are nervous about it, and how their discussion differs from anything we find in right-wing Christianity.
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Gospelbound Embraces the False Myth of Persecution
Reading Time: 9 minutes Hi and welcome back! Lately, we’ve been talking about a podcast called Gospelbound. It’s a production of The Gospel Coalition, a hard-right Calvinist evangelical group online. In this particular episode of Gospelbound, two guys talk about all the awful persecution that their tribe totally faces. Except this persecution is largely a complete myth. In reality, they’re usually […]
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Christian Strategies Reveal Their Disbelief in Their Own Claims
Reading Time: 9 minutes For a bit now, we’ve been looking at an evangelical podcast called Gospelbound. In the specific episode we listened to, two Christians outlined their strategies for reversing their religion’s decline. Interestingly, both strategies reveal the speakers’ distinct lack of faith in their own religious claims. Today, let’s marvel at their accidental reveal — and ask what their strategies might look like if they actually believed that anything they said about their god was true.
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Gospelbound: Reducing Churn Through More Intense Indoctrination
Reading Time: 9 minutes Yesterday, we covered the first prong of Gospelbound’s revitalization strategy: forcing compliance through church discipline. Today, we’ll cover the other: super-long, strict periods of indoctrination.
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Gospelbound: Authoritarians Think More Control Means Less Churn
Reading Time: 10 minutes The tagline TGC created for Gospelbound claims it offers listeners “firm faith in an anxious age.” Of course, it does nothing of the sort. Instead, it offers the usual authoritarian blahblah from the most toxic elements in their entire end of Christianity. I’ve saved the most alarming of that blahblah for last: their oh-so-very Calvinist plan for churn reduction. They think more control over congregants means less churn from their churches. Today, I’ll show you what that means — and why it’s such a laughable contradiction of the supernatural claims of authoritarians.
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Churches: No Country for Doubters (Gospelbound)
Reading Time: 8 minutes TGC’s people think that churches need to step up to be safe harbors for Christians struggling with their faith. That’s an impossible demand, but also a very safe one for them to make.