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November 2017

November 14, 2017

Lord Snow Presides… Over Mark Driscoll’s Bad Advice About Marriage. (#18)

Mark Driscoll's blog has been a treasure trove lately, as he struggles to resolve one...

April 2017

April 02, 2017

Leaving the Shack to Find Our Independence

It seems fitting, however, to return to this topic of power now as we look...

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...

October 13, 2016

Election 2016: The Cult of Ideological Purity, Backfiring

The whole reason that Trump came to power was that he tapped into the roaring,...

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...

May 2016

May 04, 2016

My Mother’s Dress

Clothes fascinate me. They're a powerful sign of our own personal individuality and a statement...

February 2016

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...

December 2015

December 01, 2015

The PP Shootings: How the System Is Designed

I didn't know if I could add anything to the conversation that other folks aren't...

October 2015

October 17, 2015

Rape Culture and the Sentencing of Pastor G

Rape culture is the term we use to describe a society in which sexual aggressors...

August 2015

August 22, 2015

Anna Duggar and the Impossible Decision: Why They Stay.

There are reasons why women in Anna Duggar's position don't leave husbands like Josh Duggar....

July 2015

July 01, 2015

Extremists Stop at Nothing: Transphobic and Anti-Vaxxer Edition

Tonight we'll be talking about two sets of extremists, both alarmingly similar in strategy and...

February 2015

February 04, 2015

The Handbook: Building a Worldview Around Consent

One of the biggest shifts I had to process in my thinking was my understanding...

January 2015

January 14, 2015

Taylor Swift’s Bubble

"You Belong With Me" is a fairy tale about the Purity Myth--and about how conforming...

December 2014

December 15, 2014

How the Purity Myth Destroys Lives

We've talked about the Purity Myth off and on here, and even knowing what I...

December 06, 2014

The Curious Case of the Undesirable Virgin

Christian culture thinks about virginity in a very particular way, and that's what we're going...

October 2014

October 11, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: The One Pillar.

Welcome back, R2Ders! We're heading into the Unequally Yoked Club today. One thing I was...

October 06, 2014

Persecution Complexity

Hi! I hope your weekend's going well so far. Today I want to talk about...

September 2014

September 14, 2014

Drilling Down

Today I saw this piece in Religion News Service about how some evangelicals are still...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Out of the Fullness of the Heart.

Well, those computer problems are totally worse than I'd initially thought ("so that's what a...

July 05, 2014

SCOTUS and Collateral Damage

(Content notice: Misogyny.) I hadn't been planning to say much here about the Hobby Lobby...

July 04, 2014

Pride

We're going to talk tomorrow some about this SCOTUS decision, because I do have something...

June 2014

June 30, 2014

Modest is Nottest.

(Content note: Misogyny, body policing, discussion of Rape Culture.) Today we're going to talk about...

June 18, 2014

Intersectionality: Let’s You and Him Fight; I’ll Hold Your Coat

Today I want to talk briefly (no, really) about this idea you might hear me...

June 16, 2014

The Next War for the Christian Right

You might imagine that I get lots of requests to write about various things, but...

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 08, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: An Open Letter to the Open-Letter Writer

Have you seen this blog post, An Open Letter to My Future Wife? We're going...

June 02, 2014

Oh Noes! A Baptism Drought!

One group of Christians, however, is finally coming to grips with their own drop in...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: Stop Defending Slavery

Seriously, folks, we're going to have to be really careful about how we present atrocities...

May 05, 2014

Exiting Far East: On Being Immodest.

I was finally in Sapporo, Japan, and in the earliest days of the trip. It...

April 2014

April 20, 2014

Dividing to Conquer

Welcome back. We've talked here before about Doug Phillips, uber-patriarch and onetime leader of the...