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March 2013

March 16, 2013

And here I thought “Satan’s plant” was an insult

On Monday I published my piece on "Dr." Pastor Marc Monte. Later that day "Dr."...

March 11, 2013

“Dr.” Marc Monte: Satan called. Loves your work.

Meet "Dr." Marc Monte, the lead pastor of Indiana's Faith Baptist Avon, an Independent Fundamental Baptist (IFB) church....

March 07, 2013

A Christianity to make Satan proud

Here's a letter I just got in: I was raised Independent Fundamental Baptist; my family...

February 2013

February 27, 2013

Married gay sex is sinful = failure of Christian logic

“Is homosexuality a sin?” is the question that today is splitting Christendom like nothing has...

February 21, 2013

Tonight this young Christian tells his parents that he’s transgender

Matt is a young transgender man (meaning he was born female, but self-identifies and prefers...

February 19, 2013

“UNFAIR” study-guide helps church become reconciling and affirming

Back in July of last year I got an email from one Sue Gunter of...

February 10, 2013

Don’t you just hate it when demons commune with you?

So the other day I got an email from someone using the name "john baptist"...

February 07, 2013

Her Christian mom came out of the closet: Welcome to the new normal

Yesterday I received the letter below. It's such a perfect example of how, in a...

February 05, 2013

To Matt Moore, the Christian “ex-gay” blogger found on Grindr

This is Matt Moore. He's a blogger for The Christian Post. (So am I! Except...

January 2013

January 30, 2013

Would you confront a pastor as this gay man did?

I got this in last week from reader Mike Moore (whom some of you might...

January 07, 2013

Their House of Mirrors

Every Christian who believes that homosexuality is an abominable sin against God invariably points...

December 2012

December 26, 2012

The Cliff Notes guide to the NRA’s response to Sandy Hook

If you missed the NRA's response to the Sandy Hook tragedy—being the speech read last...

December 21, 2012

Spending and Shopping with the NRA

Today the NRA issued its official response to the Sandy Hook tragedy. As you're likely...

December 19, 2012

I see a little silhouetto of a sheep

Not that I've in the slightest way put behind me the Sandy Hook tragedy, of...

December 16, 2012

Newtown, and what we can do now

So here we now have on us this unthinkable Newtown tragedy. And we know the...

December 01, 2012

Paul, women, and the true message of Christianity

In his recent post, I Do Not Permit a Woman, Dan Wilkinson does an exceptional...

November 2012

November 20, 2012

A prayer for the transgender in us all

Today is Transgender Day of Awareness (TDOR), which every November 20 memorializes those killed by...

November 12, 2012

How I Won the Gay War

[UPDATE: I'm aware this post has an obnoxious/pretentious-seeming title.] On this blog I (a straight...

October 2012

October 29, 2012

Catholic Bishop tells voters to vote Republican or go to hell

David Ricken (above) is the Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Green Bay, WI. Recently...

October 23, 2012

Do “good” Christians help you avoid temptation?

I'm 21, a Southern Baptist raised, but with an open heart. I was "saved" in...

September 2012

September 25, 2012

Why Jesus never even dated

(A recent conversation between my wife Catherine ["Cat"] and me.) Me: So I'm thinking about...

September 24, 2012

“HELLBOUND?” takes out the trash

Right off the bat let me confess that what I find irresistibly appealing about Kevin...

September 19, 2012

Doubting faith, hell, a friendship strained via LGBT, and “Should I join this church?”

Here are four questions recently in and my responses to them. I've been doing a...

September 11, 2012

The 8-million strong Independent Fundamental Baptists cult

Everything that's wrong with Christianity in one nutshell.

September 03, 2012

Steady as she goes

Yo, friends. So just to let you know, I won't be putting up here any...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

“Call me a pervert, Father. Accuse me of incest, polygamy, pedophilia.”

A week or so ago Ting Lin, whom I wrote about in A Taiwanese Christian...

August 28, 2012

What the LGBT debate among Christians is – and isn’t

In the recent dinner-table debate between Brian Brown of the National Organization for Marriage (NOM)...

August 26, 2012

Brian Brown vs. Dan Savage: The Transcript

You've heard of the debate. (Um .. but in case you haven't: on the left,...

August 23, 2012

The deciding LGBT issue that Christians cannot ignore

Professor Malachi tapped a file resting in the middle of his desk. "Let's consider this...

August 15, 2012

A cry to Christians from an “Evil Satanic Marxist Nazi Gestapo Hitler”

I received the email below last night. It's certainly apropos to my recent post about...