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November 2021

November 07, 2021

Study: Childhood Trauma Affects People for Years

A long-term study has revealed that childhood traumas and bad experiences can linger with us...

October 2021

October 13, 2021

The Ongoing Catholic Scandal: What the New CIASE Report Means

Catholic morality is nothing but a smokescreen to keep the flocks' attention away from Catholic...

April 2021

April 30, 2021

Josh Duggar and His Entirely Unsurprising Child Porn Charges

Hi and welcome back! Last night, we got the news that Josh Duggar -- eldest...

October 2020

October 28, 2020

How the Satanic Panic Led Straight to QAnon

After a couple of years of ignoring the whole thing, evangelical leaders have finally noticed...

January 2020

January 06, 2020

Weaksauce Substitutes and Daddy Issues in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #124, Ch. 14)

In Chapter 14, we'll discover how dangerous it is for Christians to seek out real...

May 2019

May 30, 2019

Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Pets: MLMs On the Prowl

As public understanding of and backlash against MLMs grows, the people caught up in these...

April 2019

April 09, 2019

Christians (Still) Suck at Making Parables

I wanted to take a quick detour to show you one of the two incidents...

September 2018

September 06, 2018

Christian Accountabilibuddies Are Seriously A Thing

Today, we look at Christian Accountabilibuddies, which are totally a real thing that many Christians...

September 03, 2018

The Catholic Church Is a Business–and Cardinal Wuerl Shows It (LSP #58)

Today, Lord Snow Presides over a much-needed protest that may not help much because Catholics...

March 2018

March 30, 2018

A Thief in the Night: Traumatizing Children for Fun and Prophet

Sometimes I catch myself thinking that fundagelicals are, at heart, perfectly normal people who have...

March 28, 2018

A Thief in the Night Retrospective: Where They (And We) Are Now

It's been so eye-opening for me to see just how deeply and painfully these movies...

October 2017

October 30, 2017

Lord Snow Presides #16: Mark Driscoll Can’t Stop the Signal.

Having suitably--he thinks at least--absolved himself of responsibility for Mars Hill's disintegration and his own...

September 2017

September 06, 2017

Jesus Camp’s Moment in Time, Scattered

It's a chilling look at how young children are preyed upon and brainwashed by the...

June 2017

June 23, 2017

A Safe Guess for Anona United Methodist Church

If my blog were a sort of News of the Weird of Christianity--and I suppose...

March 2017

March 04, 2017

The Gaze of Dead Children Follows Me Today

These stories are related. They both reflect an endemic issue within Christianity: its broken systems'...

June 2016

June 01, 2016

Being Wrong: The Feedback Loop, Embraced

One of the greatest gifts we can get is constructive feedback from our peers and...

February 2016

February 05, 2016

A Shell Game Played With Christian Predators

Christian leaders have a terrible problem on their hands, and it's only getting worse every...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Do Not Piss Off Lesbians, And Other Surprising New Revelations About the Josh Duggar Abuse Scandal.

It's been a pretty weird week for the Duggars and their ongoing sex abuse scandal....

June 11, 2015

Covenanters Anonymous: What the TVC-Jordan Root Scandal Means for Right-Wing Christianity

Recently we talked about the Jordan Root/TVC scandal, which involved a megachurch learning about a...

June 04, 2015

A Parade of Lies: The Duggar Interview Review

I always despised the Duggar parents, but now I actively hate them thanks to this...

June 02, 2015

Awareness is Growing About the Duggars’ Insincerity

Even some folks in the right-wing Christian world are waking up to the understanding that...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

What Josh Duggar Shows Us About How Not to Apologize.

Here is what a real apology looks like, and notice, please, that the response of...

May 26, 2015

3 More Christian Defenses of Josh Duggar, and Why They Fail.

Here's a quick between-meals snack of three new defenses that are emerging around the Josh...

May 24, 2015

Josh Duggar: Excusing the Inexcusable

The scandal around Josh Duggar has had a few days to ferment. News sites that...

May 21, 2015

Josh Duggar and the Anatomy of a Not-Pology

By now you've likely heard about the scandal rocking the right-wing conservative Christ-o-sphere: Josh Duggar,...

December 2014

December 07, 2014

There’s No Low Too Low: They’re Trying to Terrorize Parents Now.

Sometimes I find myself simply astonished by the lows to which some Christians will stoop....

July 2014

July 12, 2014

A Legend In Their Own Minds

When someone desperately wants to have status, there are really only a couple of ways...

June 2014

June 22, 2014

When Facts Don’t Sway, the Rape Threats Come Out

A bunch of seemingly unrelated scandals and gaffes broke out in the Christian community around...

April 2014

April 20, 2014

Dividing to Conquer

Welcome back. We've talked here before about Doug Phillips, uber-patriarch and onetime leader of the...

March 2014

March 03, 2014

Bill Gothard: To Catch a (Christian) Predator

I wanted to introduce y'all to Christian leader Bill Gothard. He's in the news lately...