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September 2021

September 09, 2021

A Forced-Birther Fantasizes About Criminalized Abortion

So to answer Herbie Newell's actual question, if his merry band of domestic terrorists ever...

August 2021

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...

January 2021

January 26, 2021

J.D. Greear’s Inept Response to the Bryan Loritts Scandal Reveals So Much

Accordingly with their traditions, the SBC's top leaders have consistently mishandled their nonstop scandals --...

November 2020

November 11, 2020

Rod Dreher: Fretting About Evangelical Men’s Boners — er, Civilization’s Future

Today, the ever-hilarious Rod Dreher clutches his pearls over young women's lack of interest in...

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,...

September 2020

September 04, 2020

Pew Research Surveyed Christians’ Attitudes Toward Casual Sex

Hi and welcome back! I promised you a palate cleanser yesterday, and here it is!...

September 02, 2020

An Introduction to Bro-Dude Christianity

Hello and welcome! A few months ago, we talked about evangelicals' reckoning with mental illness...

July 2020

July 12, 2020

The Exodus of Single Women From Christianity Continues

Hi and welcome back! One of this blog's central concerns remains the decline of Christianity...

July 07, 2020

J.K. Rowling and the Measuring of a Woman

Lately, a huge controversy hit social media when J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry...

February 2020

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...

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...

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...

September 07, 2019

Al Mohler Objectified Women As Usual, But This Time He Faced Backlash

Last week, Al Mohler did something he usually does: he objectified and literally dehumanized women....

July 2019

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...

July 16, 2019

Why Complementarians Hate No-Fault Divorce

Complementarianism is a sexist ideology held by mostly right-wing Christian culture warriors. One major plank...

April 2019

April 11, 2019

If Only He Knew (What Compassion Is)

While reading this awful book, I quickly realized that Gary Smalley wasn't suggesting his readers...

March 2019

March 30, 2019

If Only He Knew: First, Assume Women Aren’t People

Lately, we've been discussing the terrible Christian marriage-advice book If Only He Knew. Written by Gary...

March 23, 2019

If Only He Knew: Villains Helping Villains

Hi! Lately, we've been talking about a terrible Christian marriage-advice book, If Only He Knew. In...

December 2018

December 27, 2018

Stumbling Forward From a Fear of Change

I used to be so afraid of making big changes. I hated change and avoided...

December 19, 2018

Evangelicals: Nope, Still in Denial Over Their Decline

Recently, some irresponsible folks over at Newsweek let him and a pal blather at length about how...

August 2018

August 27, 2018

Book Review: Women v. Religion (LSP #57)

Today, Lord Snow Presides over a book that gives voices to the growing and increasingly-vocal...

June 2018

June 11, 2018

A TRUE CHRISTIAN™ Coach Reminds Us That Shaming Doesn’t Work (LSP #46)

If you haven't heard of Dave Daubenmire, he is every single thing you need to...

June 09, 2018

Complementarianism: Examining the First Claim

Christians who buy in to complementarianism make a lot of claims about this doctrine. Today,...

March 2018

March 13, 2018

Lawrence Krauss and How a Broken System Perpetuates Itself

Lawrence Krauss has all but admitted that he swims in a seriously broken system, revels...

January 2018

January 28, 2018

When Murder is Less Unthinkable Than Divorce

Over the years, quite a few pastors' wives have been murdered by their husbands--and for...

January 21, 2018

Bible Verses I Wish I’d Known About While I Was Christian.

The CPC also left out an awful lot of Bible verses that reveal that the...

January 07, 2018

How to Become a Volunteer for a Fake Abortion Clinic

One of the biggest lies told by fake abortion clinics is that they are actually...

January 05, 2018

Live in the Wild: An Introduction to Fake Abortion Clinics

The CPC is one of the most slickly-packaged of all of the fake women's clinics,...

December 2017

December 18, 2017

Lord Snow Presides… Over Christian Love, Marker Beliefs, and the Cost of Dissent. (#23)

Here we see exactly what happens when a tribe claiming ultimate moral authority and a...

November 2017

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...