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March 2017

March 22, 2017

Evangelical Churn: A Tidal Wave of False Reasons

Sometimes we're surrounded by something before we realize just how much of it there is....

February 2017

February 22, 2017

NOM: When Bad Guys Don’t Want to Be Bad Guys

There's this charming little moment in the 1983 animated masterpiece-of-nuttery Rock & Rule that really...

May 2016

May 19, 2016

3 New Marketing Slogans for the Religious Right

I mentioned being very very helpful the other day, and today I want to demonstrate...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

Come Home, Cardinal Pell: Another Day, Another Christian Predator Moved Under Another Shell

We've been talking lately about how abusers operate within a broken system and how that...

February 19, 2016

The Religious Right Clearly Thinks We’re Idiots.

I'm noticing a trend lately with the Religious Right that might well baffle observers but...

August 2015

August 16, 2015

The Radicalization of Jaelyn Young.

At first it seemed like a pretty open-and-shut case. As the New York Times told...

May 2015

May 09, 2015

On the Lips and Hearts of All Children: Mother.

"Mother" is a serious word to me, one that encompasses care, love, sacrifice, courage, hard...

April 2015

April 17, 2015

God’s Not Dead: Worst. Movie. Ever. Or at least it would be, if it were a movie.

Evangelicals are long accustomed to dwelling in a bubble of kiddie league of media and...

April 12, 2015

God’s Not Dead: Moving Targets.

We're about to launch into a discussion of the Christians in God's Not Dead, but...

February 2015

February 08, 2015

I’m Still Not a Francis Fangirl

I'm still not a Pope Francis fangirl. Here's why.

September 2014

September 04, 2014

Why They Lie.

(CN: Religious overreach, movie/book spoilers about Hot Fuzz and Watership Down.) The movie Hot Fuzz...

January 2014

January 25, 2014

Crushing on the Antichrist

If you've never seen The Damn Show, a homebrew sketch comedy show out of Austin,...

October 2013

October 30, 2013

Change, Change, Change (The RCC).

A Catholic politician and blogger is just oh so very baffled about why non-Catholics might...

September 2013

September 21, 2013

Papal Infallibility

This whole thing coming out of Rome is just astonishing, isn't it? I'm wondering now...

May 2013

May 10, 2013

GMing the Antichrist

Over the years of my youth, I got involved first in comic books, then in...

May 08, 2013

Defining Moments: The First Step

Everybody says their Catholics are the most hardcore, but I'm here to tell you that...