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I have so many questions for the American Church. What are we doing? How did we get here? What’s the point anymore? The most important of these questions is who are we? The church has forgotten its identity and it’s forgotten why it exists. This can be seen easily by the things that Christianity has …

Another week, another mass shooting in America. It’s become all too normal for us. We respond in the same ways and call for the same reforms and still nothing ever changes. We’re outraged, but this outrage is all too familiar a feeling. Let’s take a different look at part of the problem. I’m not talking …

Scott Shay is not a rabbi or a theological scholar, he’s the founder and chairman of Signature Bank in New York. So, of course, you’d assume that he’s written a book about faith, right? In his new book, In Good Faith: Questioning Atheism and Religion, Scott seeks to reexamine the relationship between faith, reason, and …

  Within modern American Christianity, we have forgotten what it means to be sacrificial. We’ve traded this humble posture of Jesus for a consumeristic, materialistic, and comfortable faith where we shop for churches like we look for fast food options. There is a lost art of sacrifice that has been long forgotten. If you lose …

  “The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. Essentially, low ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence. The combination of poor self-awareness and low cognitive ability leads them to overestimate their own …

I’ll be honest with you. I hate reading Christian memoirs. They’re too saccharine, too fake, and everything ends up with Jesus fixing everything in the end. I hate them because life rarely shakes out that way and these types of books read more like fiction. From my experience, life is hard and doesn’t always make …

Hearing that the American Church is broken isn’t a new thing for this show. We’ve talked about it endlessly over the years. Though I’m becoming more convinced that there’s no fix for the problem. Jesus isn’t the problem. He never was. We’ve built up the church as an idol. We’ve learned to worship pastors and …

“Christian persecution complex is a belief, attitude or world view that Christian values and Christians are being oppressed by social groups and governments. This belief is thought to be held by certain American Protestant Churches, some Christian- or Bible-based cults and in Europe as well. It is has been called the ‘Evangelical’, ‘American Christian’ or ‘Christian Right’ ‘Persecution …

Leave it to the Baptists to invent new things for us to fear, condemn, and judge. With technology rapidly changing, we all need to fear the take over of sex robots. It’s kind of like the Terminator with a little more lube. Recently the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention compiled …

Palm Sunday is the oft-overlooked appetizer that leads us to Easter. We know how the story ends, so we rush through it as if it’s a preamble. Once we look deeper a the events that surround Jesus’s entry into Jerusalem before his death, it starts to make the entire narrative take a different shape. These …

Ordinary people when working together have the power to break the backs of important empires. And the empire, when people are united, is never stronger than the will of the people. – Ruby Sales We’re living in a post-Muller report world and it’s a stark reminder that we put too much faith in saviors. Your …

Since when did it be okay that the gospel of grace has been replaced by the gospel of grifters. The sacred message of Jesus’ love for mankind has been hijacked by charlatans, con artists, televangelists, and conspiracy prophets. Instead of being driven by love and compassion, the faith is now fueled by greed and lust …

On Friday, March 15th, 50 people were killed and dozens were injured after a gunman opened fire on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The attack was the worst mass shooting in New Zealand’s history. What do we do when the world is in chaos and things cease to make sense? Violence begets violence and …

Never heard of Project Blitz? Well, you need really to know about this legislative assault pushing hardline Christian conservative values in states across the nation. Do conservative legislators advancing a culturally subversive agenda sound scary? Well, it is. It’s really scary. Like Franklin Graham + 1984 scary. Come along for the ride as we skewer …

Do you ever find yourself wishing your kids could experience the same indoctrination of judgment, intolerance, and misogyny, not just Sundays, but every day of the week? Do the words secular and education send chills up your spine? Want to hide your children from the real world, hermetically sealed and sheltered in a bubble of …