Reading Time: 8 minutes If someone had told me that anybody could possibly describe the unthinkable suffering going on in Ukraine with an expression of utter childlike delight, I’m not sure I’d have believed them. But here we are.
The Israel Boner
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Evangelicals’ Israel obsession is falling apart lately
Reading Time: 7 minutes or many decades now, evangelicals have supported Israel to the hilt. But lately and increasingly, younger evangelicals don’t care about Israel. Some even actively oppose the idea of supporting Israel. Today, let me show you why evangelicals support Israel — and how they’re reacting to their younger members’ rejection of this super-important culture war ideal.
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Cas the Zealot vs. the College Pagans (Lay Your Bets!)
Reading Time: 9 minutes When I was a teen zealot in college, I encountered a group that was similarly completely immune to my evangelism attempts: pagans. Today, let me show you how those encounters went — and what they told me about my own beliefs.
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Hebrew Roots: Someone’s Found a Way to Out-Weird Jews for Jesus
Reading Time: 8 minutes A while ago, I ran into this bizarre newish warping of Christianity that epitomizes the more hardcore than thou mindset. Called Hebrew Roots, this movement takes evangelicals’ obsession with Judaism and cranks it up to eleven. Today, let me show you these guys — and then we’ll look at what attracts so many people to such weird, obviously-wackadoodle groups.
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Hunt for the Red Heifer: Suck-Starting the Apocalypse
Reading Time: 10 minutes Hi and welcome back! Back when I was Pentecostal, most of my denomination obsessed over the Endtimes. Many of us had whole boxes full of diagrams and photocopies of prophecies and analyses. We thought this stuff predicted ‘the day and the hour,’ to borrow the Bible’s phrasing. Recently, I got an intense reminder of one […]
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The Israel Obsession: An Introduction to Endtimes Fantasies
Reading Time: 10 minutes To put it simply, Israel and Jews themselves are absolutely required components of these Christians’ feverish fantasies about the end of the whole wide world.
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Evangelicals’ Israel Obsession: An introduction to Christian Supersessionism
Reading Time: 7 minutes When it comes to fundagelical Christianity, few things make as little sense to outsiders to that culture as its collective near-obsession with all things Judaism. I’m going to start the party off by showing you the bizarre doctrinal belief of supersessionism, which explains why Christians have such a love-hate relationship with Judaism generally.