Turn outs, they weren’t meant for you anyway — Whenever I hear a person say, “I follow the Bible,” or “I live by the Word of God (aka The Bible),” I cannot help but think to myself, “I sure hope you’re not serious!” Why? Because if you want to try to live by the laws in the Bible, you’re…

I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy — It turns out that Hell might actually be worse than how the fundamentalists describe it. A pastor who died of a heart attack — one Gerald Johnson — claims to have died and gone to Hell, where he was tortured by demons singing karaoke. In fact, Pastor Gerald said in…

Mark Driscoll’s outrageous Tweet rightfully slammed — Pastor Mark Driscoll’s bio on Twitter boldly and proudly declares, “It’s all about Jesus!” That’s why it’s kind of surprising that today, Mark Driscoll decided to Tweet about a topic that Jesus had nothing to say about: Same-sex attraction.

Church leaders jump off the Trump train, and he’s mad about it! — If nothing else, you have to admire Donald Trump’s self-confidence. Back on November 15, 2022, Donald Trump announced his campaign for a second non-consecutive presidential term in a speech at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, despite living under the specter of a whole raft of potential legal problems. But if…

Lessons from the biggest self-serving coward in scripture — Every now and again, you find some outstanding fodder for your blog posts in the news media in the form of something purely ridiculous. This one takes the cake. A number of years ago, The Times of Israel reported that an Israeli man had petitioned the Israeli Magistrate’s Court for…

You’ve heard of IQ and EQ, but what is your SQ? — When we think about intelligence, we usually think about a person’s intelligence quotient, more commonly known as IQ. Some people fixate on IQ as a measure of self-worth. Donald Trump, for one. According to Andrew Restuccia of Politco Magazine, Trump uses IQ as a shorthand for intelligence, dividing the people…

To hell with Hell — When I was a teenager, the local Pentecostal Church was dropping flyers in mailboxes around the neighborhood, advertising a free theatrical production that promised to change your life forever. I was intrigued. It was called “Heaven’s Gates & Hell’s Flames.” And, as a young evangelical, I had no problem whatsoever…

An honest discussion about a weighty issue for people of faith — In the small village of Okeford Ftizpaine in South West England, locals are up in arms after their parish church made the decision to sell off their 150-year-old, antique Victorian-era wooden pews. As comfortable as old wooden pews are, I would not personally object to being able to sit on…

14 evangelical men decide for everyone who is “in” and who is “out” — It all started in a coffee shop in Dallas, Texas, in June 2018. Fourteen men — most of them prominent leaders of evangelical organizations — gathered around a table in Herb’s House where, over coffee and cake, they bemoaned the infiltration of certain secular values into the church: “There is…