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July 2014

July 15, 2014

Christian Charlatans

The other day I discovered that one of this site's favorite charlatans and bullshit artists,...

July 12, 2014

A Legend In Their Own Minds

When someone desperately wants to have status, there are really only a couple of ways...

July 10, 2014

Constructive Anger in the Wake of the Hobby Lobby Ruling

Anger can be a considerable gift. It can spur us to action and cause us...

June 2014

June 14, 2014

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: Engaging Me.

Welcome back! Last time we talked about how Christians share many qualities in common with...

June 12, 2014

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: When Nice Christians Aren’t Really Nice

Christianity's got a big image problem, and a lot of the reason for that problem...

June 10, 2014

Silence, Happiness, and Enthusiastic Consent

There's been a whole lot of talk lately about this new idea called "enthusiastic consent."...

June 04, 2014

You May Be Right… Or You May Be a Toxic Christian

One thing you'll fast notice if you engage Christians on any kind of level is...

May 2014

May 31, 2014

That Crazy Little Thing Called Love

A few days ago, I was watching a Christopher Hitchens video. In it, a Christian...

May 27, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Praying for Reconversion

We haven't waltzed together into the Unequally Yoked Club for a while, have we? Strike...

May 19, 2014

Exiting Far East: Falling Apart

As I look back at my experience living abroad, brief as it was, one thing...

May 14, 2014

Exiting Far East: The Outsider Test.

Today we're going to talk about that startling moment when I realized that I applied...

May 11, 2014

Exiting Far East: A Mother’s Love.

Today, on Mother's Day, let me show you what real love feels like to experience....

May 11, 2014

Exiting Far East: Food, Glorious Food.

When I was younger, I always had a very complicated relationship with food, and moving...

May 08, 2014

Interlude: On Being Afraid, Anniversary Edition

I've been noticing some folks around the internet talking about their looming or newly-discovered deconversions...

May 07, 2014

Exiting Far East: English-Only Laws Can Kiss Mah Polyglot Grits.

You know, I wasn't very old when I moved to Japan with my preacher husband...

April 2014

April 26, 2014

Heaven is (Not) For Real.

I remember seeing Heaven is For Real at the checkout stand somewhere a while ago...

April 24, 2014

The Sand’s Just Fine.

When Rachel Held Evans wrote her beautifully moving piece in the wake of the World...

April 22, 2014

Fact-Checking.

I talk about my past in the Christian faith a lot, and I know that...

April 18, 2014

Permission Slips.

Greetings and salutations! Once again, a warm welcome to the new folks coming in from...

April 16, 2014

On the Making of Mini-Mes.

A while ago there was a movie out called I, Robot. One of its most...

April 14, 2014

How Not to Be a Compelling Witness

It's almost a pity that most of modern Christianity has this major hard-on for evangelism...

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 09, 2014

The Time I Encountered a Professor Like Dr. Radisson.

I'm noticing that the blog pieces I've written so far about God's Not Dead have...

April 08, 2014

The Death of the (Non-Existent) Christian State.

Count on Christians to mourn the death of something that never existed in the first...

April 04, 2014

A “God’s Not Dead” Retrospective: The Day I Debated the M.Div. Dean of My College

The backlash continues against that stupid movie God's Not Dead (which is at this point...

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...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Congratulations, Christians of World Vision.

Congratulations. I mean that, O Christians running and supporting World Vision charities. Christians' overwhelming desire...

March 29, 2014

When God Isn’t That Great: The Urban Legend Bugaloo

If Christianity didn't have urban legends, I'm not sure what else they'd have.

March 25, 2014

Recipe for a Fundamentalist

Welcome to Captain Cassidy's Kitchen! Today we are going to make one of the season's...

March 23, 2014

The Cosmic Freakout Over Cosmos

I shouldn't be surprised anymore about how poorly fundamentalists understand the word "faith." They don't...