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June 2016

June 30, 2016

Looking for Boaz In All the Wrong Places

One of the viral things going around lately is this Washington Post op-ed called "Fat....

March 2016

March 02, 2016

5 Non-Supernatural Claims Christians Make (and Why They’re Not Credible Either)

It's not hard to poke holes in Christianity's supernatural claims. Anybody with a reasonable grasp...

February 2016

February 16, 2016

The Two Things Christianity Got Right About Love (But Can’t Put Into Action).

Today, I want to talk about two things that my religious leaders were right about...

September 2015

September 05, 2015

Fireproof: Making and Breaking the Promises

That brand of Christianity makes some distinct promises to its adherents. If you do this,...

August 2015

August 26, 2015

The Love Dare: Repackaged and Warmed-Over Glurge.

I scared up a copy, got reading, and then went through a second time and...

August 23, 2015

Another Professional Christian Ends Up on Ashley Madison (And That’s Not Even the Worst Part)

This professional Christian video blogger (or "vlogger") showed up on Ashley Madison in their customer...

August 22, 2015

Anna Duggar and the Impossible Decision: Why They Stay.

There are reasons why women in Anna Duggar's position don't leave husbands like Josh Duggar....

August 13, 2015

Fireproof: Making Love Out of Nothing At All

This movie echoes something I myself was taught as a young fundamentalist: that by doing...

August 11, 2015

As Seen in Fireproof: The Love Dare, Or How to Get Divorced In Six Short Weeks

You can't really talk about Fireproof without talking about the Love Dare, and vice versa....

August 08, 2015

How Non-Christians’ Marriages Work (Um, Right?)

Considering the overweening and galactic-level hubris they're displaying by daring to offer serious advice to...

August 06, 2015

Fireproof: Hunting Bears with an Umbrella.

(This is part of our Fireproof review week--here's the review itself and here's where I...

August 04, 2015

The Unequally Yoked Club: Fireproof’s Fatal Assumption

While someone might see this movie and assume--as I did repeatedly--that it was hawking a...

June 2015

June 11, 2015

Meet Nick and Sarah Jensen, Two More Christian Bigots Upset That Other People Are Happy

Meet Christian bigots and hypocrites Nick and Sarah Jensen from Australia. They're committed Christians who...

April 2015

April 04, 2015

The Women of “God’s Not Dead”

Changed my mind; we'll do the Christian episode later. Today I want to talk more...

April 03, 2015

The Unequally Yoked Club: Relationships in God’s Not Dead

(Please consider all of my posts about this movie to be spoilerrific.) Last week I...

March 2015

March 22, 2015

The Cult of Before Stories: Heather Barwick, Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth

I wish it could shock me anymore, seeing a family ripped apart by religion. It...

December 2014

December 15, 2014

How the Purity Myth Destroys Lives

We've talked about the Purity Myth off and on here, and even knowing what I...

December 06, 2014

The Curious Case of the Undesirable Virgin

Christian culture thinks about virginity in a very particular way, and that's what we're going...

November 2014

November 18, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Second Fiddle.

Today I read a downright heartbreaking post (that now seems to have disappeared, alas, sorry...

October 2014

October 18, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Real Threat.

Last time we talked about how church leaders and teachers have been pushing the false...

October 16, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Yes Yes, But What Does It Look Like?

I wanted to briefly discuss something I talked about last time, about couples "basing their...

October 13, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Most Important Thing.

Hi y'all! We've been talking lately about how quite a few Christians base their marriages...

October 11, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: The One Pillar.

Welcome back, R2Ders! We're heading into the Unequally Yoked Club today. One thing I was...

August 2014

August 01, 2014

It’s the Thought That Counts, Apparently

I was allowing myself to buy into the illusion of gourmet cooking without developing any...

July 2014

July 23, 2014

Divine Wooing: It’s So Romantic

(CN: Religious abuse, domestic violence, stalking.) Today we're going to talk about one of the...

May 2014

May 23, 2014

Remember that Dover Judge? He’s Just Ruled on Equal Marriage.

We are a better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Differing Conversations (We Can’t Both Be Right, Part II)

Have you ever talked to somebody who tells you one thing but tells someone else...

April 20, 2014

Dividing to Conquer

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

April 12, 2014

Why Christians Need to Stop Acting like Polyamory is Bestiality Lite

Today we are going to talk about one of the many, many consensual expressions of...

April 02, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: When Love Becomes Contempt

The opposite of love might not be hate, but contempt. I once heard a marriage...