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April 2013

April 02, 2013

Daughter of the Patriarchy, epilogue: What does leaving fundamentalism look like?

Occasionally, I get asked whether or not I ever actually left my old fundamentalist church....

December 2012

December 18, 2012

Adventures in Egalitarian Marriage: On the Rocks, Please

Ever since I was a little girl, I've found engagement rings totally perplexing. The part...

October 2012

October 17, 2012

Evangelical Christian Marriage: Hawking the Product

In evangelical Christian culture, marriage is a commodity. Marriage books are sold like gardening manuals...

October 16, 2012

Love is what “we” do; sex is what “they” do

Justin Lee, executive director of the Gay Christian Network, has just written an excellent post...

September 2012

September 09, 2012

Nature’s God

I'm often asked what I believe now, and I often answer that I'm blissfully uncommitted....

September 06, 2012

Emotional Control: Mandatory Happiness Makes Me Sad

I recently joined Pinterest. I resisted for a little while, like I always do, but...

August 2012

August 08, 2012

A Fundamentalist Christian Paradox? “Love is an Action, Not a Feeling” vs. “Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner”

A comment on Libby Anne's blog recently got me thinking about love, and what it...

August 01, 2012

“I Don’t Hate Gay People, They Just Shouldn’t Get Married”: Chick-fil-A’s Supporters Need a Lesson on Structural Violence

Chick-fil-A sent ripples through my church in the early noughties; I still have no real...

July 2012

July 23, 2012

Sexuality Project: Life Outside the Bubble, Q. 5

This concludes the answers of first group of participants in the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project....

July 22, 2012

Sexuality Project: Life Outside the Bubble, Q. 4

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 21, 2012

Sexuality Project: Life Outside the Bubble, Q. 3

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 18, 2012

Daughter of the Patriarchy: Ripping the Moorings, Part Two

My mother is stubborn. My father jokes that it's the Polish in her (and me)...

July 18, 2012

Daughter of the Patriarchy: Ripping the Moorings, Part One

My family's most diligent deceit never worked on me. My father told me not to...

July 16, 2012

Sexuality Project: Life Outside the Bubble, Q. 1

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 15, 2012

Sexuality Project: Questioning, Qs. 4 and 5

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 14, 2012

Sexuality Project: Questioning, Q. 3

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 13, 2012

Sexuality Project: Questioning, Q. 2

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 11, 2012

Sexuality Project: Questioning, Q. 1

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 09, 2012

Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 5

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 08, 2012

Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 3

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 07, 2012

Anniversary: Five Years of Love, Commitment, Skype, and Video Games

Where's the next post for the sexuality project?! you may be asking. Don't worry, they're...

July 06, 2012

Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 2

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

July 05, 2012

Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 1

This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...

June 2012

June 23, 2012

Review: Pixar’s Brave is Braver Than it Looks

Pixar's Brave is every fairy tale and none of them. It's every trope and none of them....

June 18, 2012

“Hate the Sin, Love the Sinner” – a Christian Myth in Perspective

I recently wrote my Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia series to point out how I and other...

June 14, 2012

Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia, Part Three: Finding Unconditional Love Outside the Church

Trigger warning: The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people...

June 06, 2012

Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia, Part Two: The Argument is in the Eyebrows

Trigger warning: The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people...

May 2012

May 31, 2012

Permission to Live: A Church Where We Are More Than Just Queer

Melissa at Permission to Live has just written a beautiful post about her family's first...

May 27, 2012

Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia: It Really Is About Fear (Introducing a New Series)

Trigger warning: The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people...

April 2012

April 05, 2012

Emotional Incest: The Mama’s Boy and the Other Woman

I have already written about the ways that growing up in fundamentalist-evangelical culture made me...

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