JANUARY 8, 2021 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! After Donald Trump supporters attacked the nation’s Capitol Building on Wednesday, I noticed some evangelical leaders saying there’d be some big […]
OCTOBER 28, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we began our discussion about QAnon, that series of overwrought conspiracy theories that many evangelicals have embraced. After a couple of […]
OCTOBER 17, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! I just saw this essay on Baptist News and had a good chuckle over it. See, Richard T. Hughes thinks he has finally nailed […]
SEPTEMBER 19, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! On the heels of yesterday’s discussion about two fundagelical bullies, I ran into another post about how to identify and deal with a […]
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! For a long time now, I’ve studied Christianese. That’s the jargon that Christians use among themselves — particularly the really fervent and […]
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hello and welcome! A few months ago, we talked about evangelicals’ reckoning with mental illness in their ranks. One flavor of Christianity seems especially vulnerable to this […]
AUGUST 31, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! As many people do now, I feel disquiet and dread when I check out what Christians are doing lately. And I’m […]
JULY 11, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! Need a jolt of good — or at least funny — news for your weekend? This might just do ya. Recently, […]
JULY 7, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! Lately, a huge controversy hit social media when J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter books, offered a series of […]
JULY 9, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, I showed you a story about how right-wing American Christians tried really hard to help fanatical Jews in Israel breed the […]
JULY 10, 2020 BY CAPTAIN CASSIDY Hi and welcome back! A couple of days ago, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) helped Christianity decline just a little bit faster. […]