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October 2012

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...

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...

July 2012

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 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...

March 2012

March 29, 2012

Why I Don’t Use Bible Verses as Evidence

It has been noted that my writing comes from experience and is secular in nature....

February 2012

February 09, 2012

A Brief Comment on Divorce and the Bible

Therefore take heed to your spirit, and let none deal treacherously against the wife of...

October 2011

October 18, 2011

Occupy Compassion

The American political sphere is something like a gladiator's ring taken over by staggering drunks...

September 2011

September 07, 2011

The Older Sister Who Wasn’t

I miss my mother's best friend's children. Does that sound complicated? It doesn't make a...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

On Counterculture

"Culture" is a fraught concept just about everywhere. In the academy, people debate what it...

April 2011

April 21, 2011

Just gonna stand there and watch me burn…

What makes people believe the Message? What makes them keep believing even when it's become...

March 2011

March 08, 2011

When Dreams Become Promises

This post is forthcoming on No Longer Quivering. As followers of God’s final prophet and...

November 2010

November 09, 2010

Nothing Between

Nothing between my soul and the Savior So that His blessed face may be seen...

October 2010

October 24, 2010

Special Topic: Rejoice Ministries and the “D” word

Note: This message is edited and cross-posted from a thread on the NLQ Forums. After...

September 2010

September 26, 2010

Mythbusting the Message: Misogyny

William Branham's attitude toward women has already been the subject of much commentary. The Apologetics...

September 22, 2010

Love is corrective

The doctrine of "love is corrective" assumes that there is always an error to be...

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