For twenty-five years, Link Neal led worship, journaled to God, and organized prayer groups—while being unable, with remarkable consistency, to feel any of it. The evangelical system promoted him to worship leader. This is not a story about hypocrisy.

Former evangelical Rhett McLaughlin visits Alex O'Connor's podcast to offer three pieces of advice for a church having a cultural moment. The advice arrives in the form of a three-point sermon—which is either extremely on-brand or the whole problem—and turns out to be more devastating than any atheist argument on record.

Rhett McLaughlin spent his twenties as a professional evangelical—four spiritual laws, spring break beaches, the full operation. Then he read a book about evolution, noticed a pattern in the counter-arguments, and could not un-notice it.