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December 2019

December 07, 2019

What Conversion Actually Did For the Women of ‘Only God Can’

Even in a movie made by Christians to completely pander to other Christians, Only God Can peddles...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

I Was a Purple Christian People Pleaser

Maybe it's so easy to switch flavors of Christianity because at heart, most of them...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

The Sacrifice of the Marriage Lamb: An Evangelical Horror Story

Today, we travel the horrifying route between what evangelical leaders teach about marriage, and what...

August 2019

August 01, 2019

Jesus Told This Complementarian Dude To Marry Me

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been focusing on a doctrine in authoritarian Christianity called complementarianism....

July 2019

July 25, 2019

Respect: The Song And Dance That Makes Complementarians Content

Respect is such an important concept to understand when one discusses this ultra-authoritarian, misogynistic flavor...

July 23, 2019

Complementarians Are Angry About Wives Who Don’t Change Their Names

Today, I want to show you a doozy: a Christian guy who lost his top...

July 20, 2019

Bachelorette: Why Luke Parker Thought Hannah Brown Owed Him Anything

On the reality show The Bachelorette, a Christian man lost his ever-loving mind when a woman he...

July 19, 2019

Josh Harris Is Kissing His Marriage Goodbye

Coming as it did right near the height of evangelical dominance in America, courtship culture...

June 2019

June 17, 2019

The Not-So-Casual Sexism in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #95, Ch. 1-5)

Written at the height of the Satanic Panic back in the 1980s, this novel provides...

May 2019

May 14, 2019

The Biggest Broken Promise Christians Make

Call it a sterling example of the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon if you like, and to be...

April 2019

April 16, 2019

If Only He Knew (How to Prioritize His Wife)

We return now to Gary Smalley's terrible Christian marriage-advice book If Only He Knew. This time, we...

April 11, 2019

If Only He Knew (What Compassion Is)

While reading this awful book, I quickly realized that Gary Smalley wasn't suggesting his readers...

April 06, 2019

If Only Gary Smalley’s Fans Knew (What a Hypocrite He Was)

As I read this book, I began noticing a lot of problems with it. The...

April 02, 2019

If Only He Knew: This’ll Be On the Quiz

Author Gary Smalley coaches complementarian men in repairing their failing marriages. And as we all...

March 2019

March 30, 2019

If Only He Knew: First, Assume Women Aren’t People

Lately, we've been discussing the terrible Christian marriage-advice book If Only He Knew. Written by Gary...

March 23, 2019

If Only He Knew: Villains Helping Villains

Hi! Lately, we've been talking about a terrible Christian marriage-advice book, If Only He Knew. In...

March 19, 2019

If Only He Knew: The Target Audience Within Complementarianism

Though he kept these facts on the down-low, Gary Smalley himself was a big-name complementarian...

March 16, 2019

If Only He Knew: The Huckster Fleecing These Sheep

Over the next week, I'll show you just why Christian marriage advice is so pathetically...

March 14, 2019

Everything You Ever Wondered About Spiritual Warfare

The notion of spiritual warfare isn't new at all in fundagelicalism. In fact, it's a go-to...

March 07, 2019

Keeping Up Appearances in the Cult of Family

Lately, we've been talking about authoritarian Christians' new marketing push: the Cult of Family. Only these...

February 2019

February 28, 2019

Leaving Nothing to Chance in the Cult of Family

They promise their followers that, by following their orders to the letter, happy, harmonious marriages...

February 26, 2019

Achieving a Happy Family, Sort Of, in Christianity’s Cult of Family

Like all marketing hype, though, this promise is largely imaginary, and fails far more often...

February 21, 2019

The Cult of Family and Its Failure to Launch

Do the most extremist, authoritarian flavors of Christianity really have a monopoly on the best marriages...

October 2018

October 23, 2018

The Husband Hunt: An Evangelical Horror Story

Conservative Christian leaders have sold their female followers a bill of goods about marriage. Today,...

September 2018

September 22, 2018

Promises, False and Discovered

Now, you'd think that sensible salespeople would want to avoid making promises they can't possibly...

September 13, 2018

The Red Flags I Didn’t Notice

Red flags are those in-your-face warnings that a situation could be going pear-shaped in short...

August 2018

August 31, 2018

Relax, Everyone: This Christian Knows All About Compatibility (UYC)

As you'll be overjoyed to learn, this Christian has totally figured out how people can...

August 09, 2018

The Worst Advice Biff Got from Christians About Marriage

If there's one thing ex-Christians in the Unequally Yoked Club know, it's that our Christian...

August 06, 2018

The UYC: Spectacularly-Terrible Advice from The Gospel Coalition (LSP #54)

Lord Snow Presides over a very telling--and disastrous--list of suggestions from a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ culture...

August 05, 2018

The UYC: Hope in the Middle of Christian Hypocrisy About Marriage

The other day I was telling y'all that Christians increasingly pretend to be listening to...