Catholic Priest botches baptisms — If you or anyone you know happened to have had the misfortune of being baptized in the Archdiocese of Detroit since 2017, then it turns out your baptism may, in fact, be invalid, and your very salvation is at stake. Sorry about that. It all started in August 2020 when…

This Tweet shows that Pastor Mark hasn’t learned or changed — Pastor Mark Driscoll knows a thing or two about Hell. You could say he is a bit of an expert. Why? Because as a “Christian” pastor, he successfully managed to create a living hell for those who served under him at the now-defunct Mars Hill Church. Once upon a time…

The dilemma facing every believer — A man stranded by himself on an island was finally discovered. His rescuers asked him about the three huts that they saw there. He pointed to the first hut and said, “This hut is my home.” …

The myth of God’s chosen leader — On the 1st of June 2020, in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd, then-President Donald Trump instructed law enforcement officers to use tear gas and other riot control measures to forcefully clear a group of peaceful protestors from Lafayette Square in Washington. Why? So that Trump could create…

How to talk to your kids about God when you’re deconstructing your faith — Last night my 12-year-old son said to me out of the blue, as I was tucking him into his bed, “Daddy, we should pray before bed just like we used to.” I felt a pang of guilt in my chest. The former evangelical Christian in me was inwardly horrified at…

The lessons that stuck from my evangelical upbringing — Like many children of the eighties, I spent many a Sunday morning gathered around a flannelgraph in some darkened corner of a local church, listening to a well-meaning but way-too-strict older lady try to teach me how to love Jesus. Every week, this dear and long-suffering sister-in-Christ would turn up…

How to respond to a flaming fundamentalist when they tell you you’re going to Hell — I’d like to start by giving a shout out to the reader who inspired this article. There I was penning a piece on how the church should be more accepting of diversity and difference. Oh, the audacity! This clearly outraged one of my readers — the one who is obviously…

US politician insults the land down under — Australians all let us rejoice for former TV news-anchor-turned-Republican politician Kari Lake has lost in her bid to become the governor of Arizona. You might wonder why us Aussies would care about the results of the midterm elections in the US, and, in particular, the race for Arizona between the…

How some missionaries do more harm than good — I have a friend of a friend who is currently on a short-term missions trip in a developing nation in Asia. I keep seeing her updates on Facebook and it’s kinda getting on my nerves. Why? Well… I’m just not sold on the idea that mission trips are a good…