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August 2021

August 08, 2021

An Introduction to Kent Hovind, a Notorious Christian Huckster

Hi and welcome back! The news has been busy lately with this story about Kent...

May 2020

May 20, 2020

How Al Mohler Accidentally Highlighted Evangelicals’ Idolization of Literalism

In an interview, you see, Al Mohler defended slavery as a practice. He did it for...

June 2016

June 17, 2016

People to Be “Loved” and the Failure of Literalism

Preston Sprinkle brings a full set of assumptions to the party and refuses to let...

September 2015

September 19, 2015

I Bet Kim Davis Thought This Was Super-Sneaky And Oh So Clever

In the ongoing saga of sanctimonious bigot Kim Davis, apparently she is not content to...

September 10, 2015

What Kim Davis Thinks She Won (And What She Really Lost)

Watching her, reading her words, I get the sense that she at least thinks she...

September 07, 2015

Kim Davis: Right-Wing Theocrats Are Actually Right About One Thing.

Really, the only redeeming feature of these numerous and increasingly-disturbed-sounding predictions is that not only...

September 04, 2015

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely: Kim Davis Edition.

Kim Davis, the bigot-for-Jesus County Clerk who refused to issue licenses because she thought equal...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

A(nother) Christian Dies While Messing With Snakes.

A Pentecostal man who got into snake-handling has died in Kentucky after getting bitten by...

July 07, 2015

The Handbook: Videos For Ex-Christians (and Christians Teetering on the Edge)

Sometimes it's easier to pop on a video or video series than it is to...

June 2015

June 23, 2015

Left Behind: Where Dreams Finally Come True

It's a very ugly fantasy--the demonstration of a very broken psyche on display in the...

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 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...

May 2015

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,...

March 2015

March 15, 2015

Weekend Edition: Stuff I Wish I’d Seen

There's a lot of weird stuff lurking in the unread pages of the Bible. Here...

March 13, 2015

The Vast Comfort of Literalism

Ever wonder how someone converts into fundamentalist or evangelical Christianity? Here's how I ended up...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

A Monopoly on Manliness

One of the genuinely weirdest turns that fundagelical Christianity has taken in recent decades has been...

February 08, 2015

I’m Still Not a Francis Fangirl

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

February 01, 2015

When It’s Not Funny

Last time we talked, we covered a straw man essay written by a Baptist pastor,...

January 2015

January 30, 2015

What We Can Learn About Atheists from Atheist-Whisperer Bo Wagner

Last time we talked, we covered a "satirical" straw man essay written by a Baptist...

November 2014

November 30, 2014

And I Still Belong To Me.

A new friend of mine wrote a blog post at Ex-Communications about Christianity's massive blind...