Tag: Christianity

• Reality In Ruins, Coming March 2026

  My new book has a title, cover, and release date.  Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis will hit book shelves on March 17, 2026. Distilled from…

  

• The Contagion of Violence and Conspiracy

  Yesterday’s failed assassination attempt might have shocked, but it did not surprise.  I am glad former President Trump is relatively unharmed. And it’s fitting we pray for him, and the…

  

• The Shock of Palm Sunday

  Today is Palm Sunday, the beginning of Holy Week. Maybe you’re like me and grew up with the Sunday School version of Palm Sunday.  You might have flashbacks to palm…

  

• When The Name Christian Meant Something

  I thought I’d share an insight from my research today. I think it helps us resist some of the ways “Christian” has become associated with racism, bigotry, and violence (i.e.…

  

• Close Encounters of the Theological Kind

  I should’ve known this article was inevitable. As a researcher of conspiracy theory, I keep tabs on communities where conspiracy theories are concentrated. One of those is the UFO/UAP (unidentified…

  

• “Was Jesus Nice?” Is The Wrong Question

  Asking if Jesus was “nice” or “mean”, whether he mocked his opponents or was winsome, is a proxy war. We are trafficking in baptized concepts of male domination and female…

  

• A (New) Lost Generation

  In the classic World War I novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, Erich Remarque described the effect of the Great War on the men who fought it: “It is…

  

• Why We Better Call Saul

  The series “Better Call Saul” wraps this week on AMC. Over the last 6 seasons “Better Call Saul”—with its tale of Jimmy McGill turned con-man lawyer Saul Goodman—took on a…

  

• Are Evangelicals A Threat To Democracy Today?

  This week, The Atlantic published a piece on how politics have poisoned American evangelicalism. It’s a good read, and I don’t see an end to this sort of analysis anytime…

  

• Not So Biblical Manhood

  The popular evangelical vision of Biblical manhood is not as Biblical as it might appear. Before I stepped away from pastoring in American evangelical spaces, it wasn’t uncommon to hear…