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July 2020

July 08, 2020

Christians shouldn’t get depressed? What BS.

"Any person who makes a point of telling you how God feels about you wouldn't...

June 2020

June 30, 2020

Why don’t more Christians act like Christ?

Dear John, Why do you think it is that so many people who say they’re...

June 25, 2020

I’m in an open marriage. Can I still call myself a Christian?

Dear John, I am an unfundamentalist reader with a question for you about faith and...

December 2018

December 24, 2018

Joseph and Mary on the night everything changed

"How ya feelin, Mary?" asked Joseph. "Pregnant. Very pregnant."

November 2015

November 19, 2015

On giving up on Christianity

I don't know if it's happening with people generally; maybe it's just something I'm hearing...

August 2015

August 20, 2015

Proof that Jesus was freakin’ hilarous

"My dream job is to be a sex therapist, but I feel like this focus...

July 2015

July 04, 2015

“UNFAIR: Christians and the LGBT Question” now on 4th of July sale. Because freedom. And fairness.

By way of celebrating our country, and the freedoms its brilliant Constitution guarantees to ALL...

June 2015

June 11, 2015

10 Reasons It’s Wrong to Evangelize in the Workplace

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! Welcome to the first of three rounds in this Head to Head...

May 2015

May 24, 2015

Christian counselor to suicidal woman: “Do it and you’ll go to hell.”

Jesus was hardly Mr. Turn That Frown Upside Down.

May 18, 2015

“Satan created no man; God created no sin. But I’m a gay Christian. So … ?”

Reaching out saves lives.

January 2015

January 07, 2015

If hell is real, then love has no meaning

Show me a Christianity that insists upon hell being real, and I'll show you a...

January 01, 2015

To the Dickens with me this year

This year, let me not shirk from my honor and obligation.

November 2014

November 26, 2014

As Jesus said: “Family, Schmamily. As long as there’s pie.”

One day you'll be dead. So will they. Now go get some pie.

November 14, 2014

Mary: “How do I feel, Joseph? Pregnant. Very pregnant.”

Because Mary and Joseph were, after all, a couple in love.

November 11, 2014

Goodbye, family that takes my brother’s side, despite what he did to me

Two years ago she wanted to know if, as a Christian, she needed to forgive...

November 10, 2014

Going through hell to find the secret to life

After thinking about it long and hard, I realized that the answer to the question...

November 05, 2014

Fear not, Christians who believe in hell

In the blogosphere one rarely comes across a hell-believing Christian who isn't frothingly angry. I...

November 03, 2014

Attention: Republicans, Joel Osteen, FOX News, and Biblical literalists everywhere

If you're gonna be a literalist, be a literalist.

October 2014

October 28, 2014

What Christianity without hell looks like

The idea that the Bible declares hell a real and literal place is no more...

October 26, 2014

A Prayer for This Week

Help us give the little it takes. :D

October 24, 2014

Freaky Friday

The other day a friend of mine instant-messaged me, "How come you never publish any happy...

October 20, 2014

The common mistake of Christianity-bashing “independent thinkers”

If you're gonna be an independent thinker, do it right.

October 15, 2014

Why are so many Christians so obnoxious and mean-spirited?

Why talk to a middle-man when you can go right to the source? :-)

October 13, 2014

Jesus Christ wouldn’t know most of Christianity today from a McDonald’s

Forget what all the negative people of the world do and say. If you give...

September 2014

September 22, 2014

“We’re Christians whose son-in-law has come out as transgender. What do we do?”

Her beloved son-in-law, the father of her granddaughter, has revealed that he is transgender and...

August 2014

August 27, 2014

Combating the downward pull of Christian negativity

Wherein I answer a couple of letters from mothers of LGBT kids.

August 13, 2014

Let’s let Robin Williams rest now

Yesterday at the gym I was watching television because you can't be on any elliptical...

August 12, 2014

What is there to say about the evil of ISIS?

What's happening right now with ISIS in Iraq is so terrifying and demoralizing that I...

July 2014

July 22, 2014

How we remember who we are

A quick lesson in literally everything you need to know about praying.

July 10, 2014

Is suicide a sin?

A young woman with reason to wonder asks if committing suicide is a sin.