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April 2014

April 18, 2014

Permission Slips.

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

April 12, 2014

Why Christians Need to Stop Acting like Polyamory is Bestiality Lite

Today we are going to talk about one of the many, many consensual expressions of...

April 08, 2014

The Death of the (Non-Existent) Christian State.

Count on Christians to mourn the death of something that never existed in the first...

March 2014

March 15, 2014

Taking the Religion Out of the Ex-Christian After Deconversion

You can take the person out of religion, but it's sometimes much harder to get...

March 14, 2014

It’s Okay If You’re a Christian

Today we're going to talk about how, to toxic Christians, the only moral lie is...

March 05, 2014

The Terms of Their Surrender

Ross Douthat, mouthpiece of the Religious Right, announces his surrender.

February 2014

February 13, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Why “One Flesh” is Two Disasters In the Making

Valentine's Day is coming up, and with it, a middle-aged married person's thoughts turn to...

February 01, 2014

Disproportionate Threats (Are So Very Christian)

What blows my mind is how completely out of proportion these threats are and how...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Scary, Scary Words.

Many years ago, I was in a Bible study with a bunch of older married...

January 28, 2014

“Billy Did It Too” is Not An Adequate Reason to Misbehave

Sexism is over. Rand Paul said so, so we can all just relax.

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 29, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: Bad Advice, or, The Real Things I Wish I’d Known Before Getting Married.

I love bad advice. I admit it. I've always had a huge affection for bad...

December 13, 2013

Dancing Bears

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

November 2013

November 26, 2013

Redefining Words: Sexism and “Agreeing to Disagree”

I saw this impassioned plea made by a Christian for people to agree to disagree...

November 24, 2013

Soothing Cognitive Dissonance (with Lies)

Today we're going to talk about cognitive dissonance, that feeling of discomfort humans get when...

November 23, 2013

When Your Position Depends Upon Lying

As a rule of thumb, if your position depends upon lying, then it's not the...

November 08, 2013

The Kodak Marriage

Christians' laser focus on marriage unfortunately highlights the sheer inadequacy of their rules about relationships...

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...

November 04, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: He’s in Love with a Church Girl

Continuing the long tradition of evangelical urban legends and worn-out tropes in movies*, I'm in...

September 2013

September 14, 2013

Raylan Alleman is a Creepy, Weird Bastard.

I'm not intentionally making this into a feminist blog, but holy cow, stuff keeps happening....

September 12, 2013

My Time as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl.

A few days ago I saw this post written by a man who woke up...

September 10, 2013

The Daughters of Women

A while ago I wrote a post called "The Daughters of Men" in which I...

September 03, 2013

What Happens When You Mix Martian Logic with Low Church Attendance?

It's hard to explain exactly what Martian logic is, so I'm going to use an...

August 2013

August 24, 2013

Prayer Warriors for Jesus

Most people who got involved in the Pentecostal denomination I was in weren't the clean-cut...

July 2013

July 29, 2013

Redefining Words: Love

Christianity's been quietly redefining the word "love" to the point where I can't really be...

July 25, 2013

Judging Christianity’s Validity

I've been thinking lately about exactly why I reject Christianity and what I would consider...

July 17, 2013

Opinionated

One of the hardest things I encountered after my de-conversion from Christianity was how to...

June 2013

June 29, 2013

The Sky Has Fallen. Oh wait. Actually no it hasn’t. Well, maybe for some folks. And it’s about time!

One of the most interesting things to come out of the DOMA decision this week...