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November 2021

November 28, 2021

This Seventh-Day Adventist Pastor Told Us Exactly Who He Is (and More)

Hi and welcome back! Recently, the Christ-o-sphere was roiled with yet another scandal. This time,...

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...

August 18, 2021

Bitter: How Evangelical Women Cope With Their Seething Anger

Hi and welcome back! Last week, we talked about anger. Then, a few days ago,...

August 15, 2021

The Anger of Evangelical Women

If a woman's anger gets too close to a man's comfort in that culture, men...

June 2021

June 11, 2021

The Entirely Unsurprising Sexism That Russell Moore Revealed

Yesterday, we talked about the sheerly vicious racism on display in these leaked letters. Today,...

May 2021

May 22, 2021

Al Mohler and the Subtle Warnings Authoritarians Give

The contents of that speech and its intended audience both matter enormously. They tell us...

May 20, 2021

How and Why Al Mohler Changed His Mind About Women Pastors

Hi and welcome back! We've been talking lately about the re-erupting squabble in evangelicalism about...

May 19, 2021

Back When Al Mohler Supported Women Pastors

Yesterday, I showed you the re-eruption of a decades-old slapfight going on in evangelicalism: whether...

March 2021

March 27, 2021

The Entire Goal of Authoritarianism: Oppression of the Powerless

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday (and the day before, really), we touched on a post by...

March 13, 2021

Christian Love: Beth Moore Finally Left the SBC

Hi and welcome back! If you want to see what a group is really all about...

November 2020

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...

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,...

August 2020

August 25, 2020

Jerry Falwell, Jr. and the Morality That Created Him

Jerry Falwell, Jr. is a product of his culture, completely and through-and-through. Today, let me...

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 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 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...

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 11, 2020

Steve Timmis’ Rise and Fall (Reveals a Serious Problem in Christianity)

The more seriously Christians take their ideology, the more dangerous a malignant leader becomes to...

February 05, 2020

Willow Creek: Missing ALL the Red Flags

Last week, yet another sex scandal broke out in right-wing Christianity. But this one erupted...

February 01, 2020

Paige Patterson’s Having a Tough Time, Y’all

A while ago, we looked at Paige Patterson, a Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leader who...

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...

December 03, 2019

The Crybullies of Christianity (Don’t Understand Themselves)

Last time we met up, I showed you a survey that revealed what evangelicals believe...

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 15, 2019

The Price of the Shining Wire: Evangelicals’ False Promise of Safety

When we believed, we pretended to live in perfect safety, like we curled up in...

September 2019

September 17, 2019

HumanGate: Al Mohler’s Emotional and Weak-Minded Amnesia

Poor Al Mohler. I can only imagine that his fragile emotional state, caused by his...

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 27, 2019

Bachelorette: Why Luke Crashed Hannah’s Rose Ceremony

Today, let me show you how an authoritarian, complementarian Christian man collided with the concept...

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...