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December 2021

December 09, 2021

What Finally Stopped Josh Duggar

Josh Duggar has been found guilty of both counts of possession and receipt of child...

October 2021

October 24, 2021

Hypocrisy Reveals Christians’ True Morality

Not only do toxic Christians not live up to their own code of morality, they...

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...

October 07, 2021

Mark Lanier, Paige Patterson’s Attorney, Seeks to Sway SBC Now

Today, I just want to show you Mark Lanier and his past with the SBC...

September 2021

September 30, 2021

Abuse of Faith: The SBC Looks as Guilty as Sin Lately

The top leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) are haggling as hard as they...

May 2021

May 06, 2021

The Duggars: Authoritarians Trying to Protect Their Tainted Brand

Last week, the Duggar clown car family hit the headlines again. Unsurprisingly, those headlines centered...

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...

June 2020

June 16, 2020

Accusations of Abuse That Didn’t Age Well (LSP #146, TPD Ch. 26)

Hi and welcome back! I got so excited about writing about SCOTUS yesterday that I...

June 11, 2019

The SBC’s Sex-Abuse Scandal Is Getting Worse

The 'Abuse of Faith' scandal happened right on the heels of the denomination's other sex-abuse...

October 2018

October 09, 2018

Pope Francis and Satan, Sittin’ in a Tree (K-I-S-S-I-N-G)

Francis is not only not a revolutionary new kind of pope, but a retread of the...

August 2018

August 18, 2018

Why It Matters: That Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report

This week, the world reeled at a shocking report issued by a grand jury in Pennsylvania....

June 2018

June 19, 2018

The Fruits of Complementarianism

Today, I'll show you how meaningless Greear's gestures are in the face of the SBC's...

April 2018

April 22, 2018

Why the Christian Right’s Sex Scandals Are Only Increasing With Time

Another day, another bunch of scandals erupting out of fundagelical Christianity, and yet more predators...

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...

August 2016

August 06, 2016

Josh Duggar’s Having a Tough Time These Days.

Last year we covered the scandal erupting around the Duggar family when eldest son Josh...

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...

April 2016

April 24, 2016

Tony Waller and the Cruel Dilemma

Do you folks remember Anthony Waller? He's a youth pastor I discussed about a year...

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...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

The Predators in Plain Sight (in a Broken System)

It seems like there is a never-ending litany of miserable stories about abusers, predators, and...

January 12, 2016

The Broken System: Asking the Right Questions

I heard about this story a while ago, but I wanted to hold off on...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

The Ashley Madison Hack Was a Factor in a Seminary Professor’s Suicide

Last month, a Professor of Communications at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary took his...

September 01, 2015

Josh Duggar: What It Took

But sometimes, despite the huge safety net evangelicals have built up over decades to prevent...

August 2015

August 02, 2015

Why “Separate but Equal” Doesn’t Work

Whenever you hear about any institution or group that specifically singles out one group to...

June 2015

June 18, 2015

3 Reasons Why We Aren’t Shutting Up About the Duggar Abuse Scandal.

Supporters of Josh Duggar and his parents continue to abound, so I thought it might...

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 09, 2015

Jordan Root and Yet Another Child Abuse Scandal Erupting in Christianity Right Now.

We're still reeling from the Duggar sex abuse scandal, but on the heels of it...

June 07, 2015

The Voice of False Submission and the Duggar Sisters’ Interview.

Michelle said in her breathy, wondering, affectation of a little-girl voice, "an.... agenda???" That voice...

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...