Monday Morning Reading List

Hello, readers! There’s been an influx of new subscribers over the past week or so. Welcome!

There has been a quiet stretch of writing and podcasting lately due three reasons:

1. A vacation
2. Day-job related work
3. An upcoming manuscript deadline

Due to these factors, August will likely see a little less original writing than usual. I will work on formalizing a schedule that I will share later.

In the meantime, check out a couple of pieces of great writing from across the web.

Illuminations - Kristin Rawls

Kristin Rawls has begun writing a deeply researched series on how evangelicalism “grooms” children, not LGBTQ+ persons as part of their new Revue newsletter, Illuminations. It’s in multiple parts, and yes, this is the type of thing that comes with a content warning.

You can find the first issue of this series here, and the latest edition here.

“Even if Tiktokstagram works, it won’t” - Ryan Broderick

Elsewhere on Substack, tech culture writer Ryan Broderick wrote about the recent push by Instagram to remake itself in the image of TikTok, and posits that we are witnessing the end of social media’s central role in our online experience, drawing upon this piece at Axios.

Even if TikTokstagram works, it won't

Meta’s In A Bind Meta, for the first time since it went public 10 years ago, is losing money. In an earnings report this week, the company announced that its quarterly revenue is down since last quarter and its profit has dropped as well. Per CNN Business

Garbage Day

From the PEP Archive

Since there are so many new subscribers, here’s a few pieces from the archive that are worth resurfacing:

Exvangelical - A Working Definition

This essay was originally published on March 2, 2019 at exvangelicalpodcast.com and is republished below. Over the past few years, the term “exvangelical” has gained traction on social media, especially through Twitter & Facebook. One early criticism of “exvangelical” as a term was that it was overly negative. Since many of these conversations happened di…

The Post-Evangelical Post

White Evangelicalism Does Not Want to Be Reformed.

Earlier this week, Tish Harrison Warren published an article for Christianity Today called “The Church Needs Reformation, Not Deconstruction.” It is billed as “a short guide to the exvangelical movement.” While it does not quote from any well-known exvangelical figures, it does link to Brad Onishi’s (disclosure: my friend and fellow

The Post-Evangelical Post

As white evangelical hegemony ended, white Christian nationalist minority rule began.

White evangelicals in America have been heavily scrutinized—and rightly so—since the 2016 election cycle. Their widespread support of Trump & Trumpism escorted an unqualified, megalomaniacal, corrupt, amoral real estate “magnate” and reality-tv “star” to the White House.

The Post-Evangelical Post

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