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October 2021

October 08, 2021

How the SBC Isn’t Handling Its ‘Abuse of Faith’ Megascandal

Two Texas newspapers released their 'Abuse of Faith' expose of this scandal in February 2019....

May 2021

May 12, 2021

Gaslighting: How Dare We Expect Evangelicals to Fulfill Their Promises!

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, I alluded to the mistreatment evangelicals heap upon people who...

November 2020

November 25, 2020

‘Christian Love’ as a Tool for Gaslighting

Hi and welcome back! We've got a quick little segue ahead of us. A recent...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Weaponized Pet Names: Recognize This Control-Grab

Hi and welcome back! I find inspiration in the strangest places sometimes. Case in point:...

May 2020

May 06, 2020

Why Science- and History-Based Apologetics Fails So Dramatically

Apologists -- especially in evangelicalism -- love to lean hard on arguments based on science...

February 2020

February 15, 2020

Authoritarians’ Roadmaps Don’t Work (And They Don’t Care)

Authoritarian leaders create these instructional roadmaps that simply don't get followers to their promised destinations....

December 2019

December 14, 2019

More Lies: ‘We Welcome Everyone (Except Not Really)’

Evangelicals love to think of themselves as welcoming. But that's just another one of the...

December 07, 2019

What Conversion Actually Did For the Women of ‘Only God Can’

Even in a movie made by Christians to completely pander to other Christians, Only God Can peddles...

July 2019

July 30, 2019

That Oogly-Boogly Feeling (Became My Awakening)

Yesterday, I showed you a scene from This Present Darkness that gave a narrative shape to...

July 27, 2019

Bachelorette: Why Luke Crashed Hannah’s Rose Ceremony

Today, let me show you how an authoritarian, complementarian Christian man collided with the concept...

February 2019

February 07, 2019

Antiprocess: How Christians Deal With Challenges to Their Beliefs

When people receive information that challenges a cherished belief, they have at their disposal a...

December 2018

December 20, 2018

Meet the Christians Who Are Curious About the God We Don’t Believe In

But one evangelism technique comes to us from both progressive and evangelical Christians. Today, let...

December 10, 2018

Leaving A God on Read (LSP #72)

Christians now have a whole new bad idea to torment people with. See, their god's totally...

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...

November 2016

November 20, 2016

The Handbook: Intervention Conventions

We're fast approaching the holiday season, and as fun as holidays are supposed to be,...

October 2016

October 10, 2016

Election 2016: Michele Bachmann’s Startling (New) Conspiracy Theory

Michele Bachmann, a former US Representative from Minnesota and infamous religious fanatic and right-wing-nutjob, has...

May 2016

May 01, 2016

Evangelical Churn and the Chain of Pain

As the religion becomes more and more extremist and polarized, we'll be seeing more and...

June 2015

June 11, 2015

Covenanters Anonymous: What the TVC-Jordan Root Scandal Means for Right-Wing Christianity

Recently we talked about the Jordan Root/TVC scandal, which involved a megachurch learning about a...

June 09, 2015

Jordan Root and Yet Another Child Abuse Scandal Erupting in Christianity Right Now.

We're still reeling from the Duggar sex abuse scandal, but on the heels of it...

May 2015

May 24, 2015

Josh Duggar: Excusing the Inexcusable

The scandal around Josh Duggar has had a few days to ferment. News sites that...

January 2015

January 16, 2015

The Handbook: Recognizing When the Gas Lights Have Dimmed (Gaslighting)

Do you know what gaslighting is? Here is how to identify this common religious-abuse tactic...

November 2014

November 07, 2014

What Christians Are Saying When They Dictate My Experiences To Me

Today I was reading this online article about what cis people are really saying to...

October 2014

October 24, 2014

(Christians Are Not) The Designated Adult.

(CN: Domestic violence, abuse, gaslighting.) Hi and welcome back! We're cruising right into the weekend,...