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November 2021

November 01, 2021

Context is Everything in Spookiness (LSP #216)

We humans are extremely context-sensitive creatures, and when something runs out of context, it can...

October 2020

October 26, 2020

Spiritual Warfare: Translating the Christianese (LSP #163)

With their grandiose language, spiritual warriors certainly sound impressive. Ah, but if you lift the...

June 2020

June 22, 2020

Bobby Corsi’s Exorcism Fits and Creates A Pattern (LSP #147, Ch. 26)

In this installment, we briefly consider how the exorcism of Bobby Corsi perfectly fits the...

June 10, 2020

The VelociPastor: 1.21 Gigawatt Review!

HI and welcome back! Last post, I put up the pre-movie chatter post. Today, let's...

June 08, 2020

The Exorcism of the Man in Black (LSP #145, TPD Ch. 25)

Hi and welcome back! We return now to our longform examination of Frank Peretti's literary...

April 2020

April 20, 2020

A Wingnut Meeting Gets Completely Out of Hand in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #138, Ch. 21)

In Chapter 21, Frank Peretti skipped merrily across a whole bunch of plots, giving us a little...

February 2020

February 03, 2020

An Exorcism in Christian Fantasy-Land in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #128, Ch. 15)

In this installment, a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ wages honest-to-goodness spiritual warfare--and he wins, because of course...

January 2020

January 27, 2020

Jesus Power in the Arcade in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #127, Ch. 15)

In this installment, a TRUE CHRISTIAN™ invades an evil, Satanic video game arcade. Today, Lord Snow...

October 2018

October 30, 2018

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex Demons (And Weren’t Afraid to Ask)

One of the weirdest offshoots of the Satanic Panic has got to be sex demons. Here's...

October 29, 2018

Do You Wanna Build an Exorcist? (LSP #66, The Cutoffs of the Beast)

In honor of Spooky Week, we're looking at the Christians wetting their pants over Halloween....

October 25, 2018

John Ramirez Is Trying SO HARD to Bring Back the Satanic Panic

The other day, I ran across a mention of John Ramirez. He's trying his very...

December 2017

December 10, 2017

But But But You Guys! Biff DID THE RESEARCH! We’re Boned!

It's quite a popular phrase encapsulating quite a popular trope in Christian testimonies, and it's...

January 2017

January 29, 2017

Medicine vs. Exorcism: The Real Miracle

One of the biggest markers of modern Christianity--and one of the reasons it is eventually...

October 2015

October 31, 2015

Why Evangelicals Love Halloween.

For a group of people who genuinely believe that their god is the most powerful...

July 2014

July 21, 2014

The Night My House Was Exorcised, Sort Of

Have you ever had a really embarrassing deed haunt you for years? This is one...

May 2013

May 16, 2013

My Boyfriend Gets Exorcised.

Now that I wasn't involved in weird evangelical churches anymore, I blossomed at last in...