Captain Cassidy

Captain Cassidy

Gen Xer and ex-Pentecostal writing about the intersection of psychology, belief, popular culture, science, and religion.

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Why authoritarians love—and hate—an apology

One of the many things we can expect in the next four years is a lot of sputtering demands for apologies for the last four years.

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Another demographic time bomb goes off for evangelicals

The future of evangelical Christianity is looking exceedingly grim.

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We’ve burned past +1°C. Did a 2008 climate prediction get it right?

Sixteen years ago, a documentary predicted how a warming Earth would look at each of six temperature benchmarks. Now we've passed the first.

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Virtual reality church: This tech isn’t just for gaming anymore

In which today's shrinking church reaches out to virtual reality—with weird results.

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AI: The newest squirrel distracting evangelicals from their own decline

Evangelicals have expressed both dread regarding AI’s popularity and power, and excitement about its potential to turn around their decades-long decline.