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December 2017

December 03, 2017

The Love/Life Seminar and the Politics of Fixing People

Last time we covered what the seminar's creators thought were the five levels of friendship...

November 2017

November 24, 2017

Joe Barton and Cargo Cult Excuses in the Broken System

I'll show you what Joe Barton's excuse is and how it illustrates his cargo-cult understanding...

November 15, 2017

A “Second Glance” at the Subculture That Produced Roy Moore.

When the accusations began flowing against bigot-for-Jesus Roy Moore, that movie showed us exactly why...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

Reconstructionism: Why Fundagelicals Can’t Have Nice Things

Complementarianism is an offshoot of a wackadoodle Christian ideology called Reconstructionism, which has gone from...

October 25, 2017

CBMW: Why Complementarianism Fails So Dramatically.

Today we'll examine the CBMW's central conceit, complementarianism, since it informs both of their culture...

October 22, 2017

The CBMW and the Hills They Die On

Today I want to look more closely at why the CBMW chose to rally around...

August 2017

August 17, 2017

Various Christian Threats, Deciphered and Decoded

Threats are a constant and deeply-woven part of Christian culture. Even the really nice parts...

August 03, 2017

Burnout: Pastors’ Wives Confess All

Today I'll show you what this problem looks like, what the women dealing with the...

July 2017

July 04, 2017

The False Promise of Safety in the Broken System

The criticism I have about religion really deals with the broken system that undergirds it:...

June 2017

June 28, 2017

Further Signs of Christianity’s Demographic Death Spiral

When you hear one of them chirp about men being "biologically wired to be drawn...

April 2017

April 22, 2017

The Tell-Tale Heart of #ThingsOnlyChristianWomenHear

I was even more interested in the responses to the stuff women are sharing on...

October 2016

October 15, 2016

Paul Ryan Doesn’t Understand: Reverence IS Objectification

Members of the Christian Right may not realize this, but objectification takes at least two...

September 2016

September 25, 2016

The Alternate Reality of Christian Mingle: The Movie

Last time we met up, we were talking about Christian Mingle: The Movie. It's a...

August 2016

August 04, 2016

That False Promise of Security in a Broken System

People in thrall to a broken system often believe that if they follow the system's...

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....

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...

February 14, 2016

5 Things Christianity Gets Wrong About Love

It didn't take me long at all to realize that I had been stone-cold wrong...

February 12, 2016

Republicans are Becoming Team Disenfranchisement This Season, Too

Last time we talked, we were discussing Republicans' bizarre and grotesque view of rape as...

February 05, 2016

A Shell Game Played With Christian Predators

Christian leaders have a terrible problem on their hands, and it's only getting worse every...

August 2015

August 02, 2015

Why “Separate but Equal” Doesn’t Work

Whenever you hear about any institution or group that specifically singles out one group to...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

A Monopoly on Manliness

One of the genuinely weirdest turns that fundagelical Christianity has taken in recent decades has been...

April 2014

April 18, 2014

Permission Slips.

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

March 2014

March 03, 2014

Bill Gothard: To Catch a (Christian) Predator

I wanted to introduce y'all to Christian leader Bill Gothard. He's in the news lately...

January 2014

January 22, 2014

The Superiority Complex

I don't know if diversity education works--the jury seems to be out on that one--but...

January 06, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Building a Better Husband

A social experiment is technically just an experiment run on people, to study how groups...

January 05, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: What Changed, and What Didn’t

After I deconverted, my husband was convinced that I'd change dramatically. I wanted to talk...

December 2013

December 13, 2013

Dancing Bears

Today I want to talk about something I call "dancing bears"--that strange phenomenon you see...

December 03, 2013

Taking It Back

The other day I ran across this blog entry about the links between super-duper-racist rednecks...

November 2013

November 06, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Terrible Bargain

(Content warning: lots and lots of sexism directed at Yr. Loyal Correspondent, but I'll spoiler...

October 2013

October 23, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Bargaining Table

After Biff figured out that I was quite serious about having deconverted, the bargaining phase...