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October 2012

October 24, 2012

Sexuality Project: Sex Education and the Body, Q. 2

The following is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. Read the previous...

September 2012

September 23, 2012

Disability and Abortion, Part Two: Individual moral choices are not categorical imperatives

I have been asked to write a response to S.E. Smith at Tiger Beatdown after...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

Ann Romney’s Gendered Martyrdom: “Women and Children First”?

Credit isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'm not talking about your credit score...

July 2012

July 30, 2012

Disability, Prenatal Testing and the Case for a Moral, Compassionate Abortion

Note: If the headline didn't already clue you in, this is controversial subject matter. If you...

July 03, 2012

Sexuality Project: Peer Group, Q. 4

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

July 02, 2012

Sexuality Project: Peer Group, Q. 3

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

June 2012

June 22, 2012

The Incredible Helplessness of Men: Lust Edition, Epilogue

Following up my last post about the John Edwards and Rielle Hunter affair, have a...

June 21, 2012

Dear Evangelicals: Stop Talking about a “Culture of Death”

I am pro-choice. I don't revel in death. I don't advocate for it. I don't...

June 21, 2012

The Incredible Helplessness of Men: Lust Edition

I just accidentally ran across this piece of weird voyeurism on the internet. (How I...

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 08, 2012

Azizatu Nafsiha: Coming Into My Own

Saliha at Azizatu Nafsiha has begun to write a beautiful, thoughtful series about wrestling with faith and...

June 01, 2012

Modesty, Body Policing and Rape Culture: Connecting the Dots

Definition: The “modesty doctrine” is the belief that women need to cover their bodies to prevent...

May 2012

May 22, 2012

Group Identity and Child Abuse

A little while ago, Libby Anne wrote a great post called Sex Abuse, the First...

May 21, 2012

Eagle Cry Radio Cries Some More

Joseph Branham's reactionary letter to the WHAS11 news story on William Branham and the Message...

May 16, 2012

The Modesty Myth: a new series on From Two to One

Those who remember my series of posts on the modesty doctrine will appreciate the new "Modesty Myth" series...

May 13, 2012

Christian Zionism and the Holocaust

My church was obsessed with Israel. We believed that Israel becoming a state in 1948...

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....

March 04, 2012

The hypocrisy of “paying for other people”

I am fed up. Truly, deeply fed up. I'm fed up with the arrogance and...

February 2012

February 10, 2012

Why the Birth Control Compromise is not about “Freedom of Conscience”

From the Wall Street Journal: Vice President Joe Biden said he is confident the administration...

November 2011

November 22, 2011

Modesty: a response to common misunderstandings

Inevitably, when I write about the modesty issue, I get some variation of the following...

November 21, 2011

How Modesty Made Me Fat

This isn't a story about how modest clothes allowed me to "let myself go" and...

September 2011

September 21, 2011

Throwing out the moral GPS

This is cross-posted at No Longer Quivering. Growing up in fundamentalism was like living with...

September 13, 2011

Doublespeak: Freedom is Safety

Fundamentalism has a nasty habit of redefining words. You can tell they're doing it when...

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