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October 2021

October 31, 2021

Dreaming the Impossible Dream of Marriage (An Evangelical Horror Story)

What these men want in marriage isn't completely unreasonable. So (I wondered) why can't they...

August 2021

August 25, 2021

The Cargo Cult World of Evangelical Marriage Counseling

Today, let me show you how good advice goes bad in the cargo cult of...

May 2021

May 11, 2021

How (and Why) Evangelicals Blow Their Witness With Single Moms

On Mother's Day, I showed you a major evangelical news site that somehow missed an...

May 09, 2021

An Evangelical Site Tries Hard to Ignore Their Single Moms

In the April issue of Christianity Today (CT), their cover story involved the most hilarious bait-and-switch attempt...

March 2021

March 02, 2021

Stewart-Allen Clark and the Double Message Evangelical Men Send to Women

Today, let me show you the double message that evangelical men send the women in...

November 2020

November 30, 2020

The Big Problem Here: Singleness Edition (LSP #168)

Seriously. How could I possibly resist the spectacle of an evangelical offering up The Big...

November 19, 2020

How Evangelical Husbands (Don’t) Repair Their Troubled Marriages

Evangelical men get taught completely impractical rules for marriage, and then -- once everything goes...

November 18, 2020

Evangelical Marriages: Where Fantasy and Reality Collide

Today, let me show you how evangelicals' broken system poisons members' minds and relationships --...

November 17, 2020

How Evangelical Men Try to Divorce-Proof Their Marriages

Evangelicals in general absorb all kinds of bad advice about relationships, but today I want to show...

November 15, 2020

How Evangelical Men Try (And Fail) to Pick Perfect Wives

We've been talking lately about right-wing Christians' conceptualization of marriage. Uniformly, their marriage rules don't...

November 14, 2020

Carl Lentz and the Adulterous ‘Drug’ He Chased

The story of Carl Lentz' pursuit of his mistress reminded me so much of other...

November 13, 2020

The Day A.J. Kiesling Noticed Christian Men’s Fear of Divorce

'Perfect love casts out fear,' wrote someone long ago. Going by that standard, today's evangelical...

November 12, 2020

The Marriage Dilemma for Single Evangelicals

Not long ago, we reviewed a Christian book called Where Have All the Good Men Gone?...

November 11, 2020

Rod Dreher: Fretting About Evangelical Men’s Boners — er, Civilization’s Future

Today, the ever-hilarious Rod Dreher clutches his pearls over young women's lack of interest in...

November 04, 2020

The Love Narrative Fouling Up the Evangelical Husband Hunt

A few days ago, we started talking about a 2008 book, Where Have All the Good...

November 01, 2020

Single Evangelical Women Ask ‘Where Have All the Good Men Gone’

I recently ran across a 2008 book by A.J. Kiesling called 'Where Have All the Good...

October 2020

October 31, 2020

Denial in the Great Husband Hunt: An Evangelical Horror Story

Hi and welcome back! Today, as we've been doing for a while now on Halloween,...

September 2020

September 28, 2020

UYC: Single Christian Man Tells ‘Christian Girls’ Never to Settle (LSP #159)

He's one of many, many thousands of men and women in his end of Christianity...

September 08, 2020

‘Christian Love’ Flows As Jen Hatmaker Divorces

Hi and welcome back! I know nobody's surprised when we talk about evangelical hypocrisy. They're...

July 2020

July 22, 2020

Mark Regnerus Will TOTALLY Fix Marriage, Y’all!

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we looked at a really awful post by pseudoscientist Mark...

July 21, 2020

No, ‘The Church’ Can’t Save Marriage, Mark Regnerus

Hi and welcome back! Recently, I ran across an article in Christianity Today that dovetails nicely with...

July 05, 2020

Frank Keating: An(other) Evangelical Mascot Turned Out to Be A Total Failure

Today, I'll show you what Frank Keating did, how his effort failed, and how nobody...

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...

May 15, 2020

Measuring Evangelical Hypocrisy in ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience’

Yesterday, I showed you an overview of a classic evangelical book from 2005: The Scandal of...

May 10, 2020

Captain Cassidy and the Case of the Mother’s Day Geraniums

Whether those connections are bound to us by blood or by choice, they're what matter...

April 2020

April 27, 2020

Why the Hogans’ Marriage Seems So Evangelical in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #139, Ch. 21)

In this installment, we check out the deteriorating marriage of Kate and Marshall Hogan. In...

April 19, 2020

Married Evangelicals Are Not Okay: Pandemic Edition

People don't know the grim reality of evangelicals' marriages, much less why this whole pandemic situation...

March 2020

March 22, 2020

Nobody Signs Up For the UYC (Chat Post #3)

Let me tell you about the very night that my then-husband Biff realized that yes,...

February 2020

February 18, 2020

More Terrible Christian Marriage Advice in the Unequally Yoked Club

Years ago, I started a long blog series called The Unequally Yoked Club. It aimed to...

December 2019

December 31, 2019

A Complementarian Pastor’s ‘Simple Question’ (Has An Answer He Won’t Like)

As I read his disingenuous post, I got one of those surges of helpfulness that...