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June 2020

June 23, 2020

Paul Petersen: A New Hypocrite Illustrating Old Flaws

Hi and welcome back! Long ago, we established that Christian hypocrites in elected positions behaving...

February 2020

February 18, 2020

More Terrible Christian Marriage Advice in the Unequally Yoked Club

Years ago, I started a long blog series called The Unequally Yoked Club. It aimed to...

October 2019

October 17, 2019

I Bet You Had No Idea It Was This Easy to Become an Apologist Like Natasha Crain

Today, I'll introduce you to Natasha Crain and show you how she went from a...

February 2019

February 21, 2019

The Cult of Family and Its Failure to Launch

Do the most extremist, authoritarian flavors of Christianity really have a monopoly on the best marriages...

January 2019

January 07, 2019

A God’s Eternal Standards Shift–Again–Sort Of (LSP #76)

A bunch of Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) folks have changed their opinion about one of...

July 2018

July 09, 2018

The UYC: How Marital Compatibility is (Mis)Defined (LSP #50)

In toxic Christianity, couples determine compatibility in a totally different way than most other folks...

May 2018

May 29, 2018

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Meltdown of a Marriage

I've been wanting to return to the UYC lately, since I've seen new developments on...

February 2018

February 27, 2018

This World Might Not Be Ready for Mark Driscoll’s Earth-Shattering Marriage Advice (LSP #31)

Today I want to show you how Mark Driscoll thinks we can all get away...

February 16, 2018

MMS: A Miracle Cure That’s Neither Miraculous Nor a Cure

Here's the story of the Miracle Mineral Solution, and how this woo fits into the...

August 2017

August 03, 2017

Burnout: Pastors’ Wives Confess All

Today I'll show you what this problem looks like, what the women dealing with the...

August 14, 2016

The Good Old Days: Refuted by a Single Book

It's not uncommon to see Christians point to 1945-1960 (loosely, "the 1950s") as some kind...

July 2016

July 24, 2016

A Match Made in Hell for People to Be “Loved.”

Preston Sprinkle, in his book People to Be Loved, expresses some truly atrocious ideas. Arguably...

June 2016

June 08, 2016

Evangelical Churn: A Defection, Observed

Thousands of people every day join the ranks of the ones who know. That number...

June 03, 2016

Christians and the Law of Conservation of Worship

I've been thinking lately about something I've noticed about many Christians trying to evangelize non-believers:...

March 2016

March 29, 2016

The False Promise of Rebirth

Today I'll show you why the Christian narrative of rebirth is a false promise, one...

March 18, 2016

The Happy Christian Illusion (Isn’t Real)

Many Christians buy into a narrative that their religion offers about happiness, not realizing that...

March 16, 2016

Happiness: In That Moment, They Were Euphoric

They Had That Euphoria-Euphoria-Euphoria-Euphoria Down In Their Hearts.

February 2016

February 25, 2016

Come Home, Cardinal Pell: Another Day, Another Christian Predator Moved Under Another Shell

We've been talking lately about how abusers operate within a broken system and how that...

February 16, 2016

The Two Things Christianity Got Right About Love (But Can’t Put Into Action).

Today, I want to talk about two things that my religious leaders were right about...

January 2016

January 29, 2016

The Predators in Plain Sight (in a Broken System)

It seems like there is a never-ending litany of miserable stories about abusers, predators, and...

January 15, 2016

The Broken System: When the Greater Good and Harm Don’t Exist

Last time, we began talking about broken social systems--starting with the most dangerous question someone...

September 2015

September 15, 2015

The Ashley Madison Hack Was a Factor in a Seminary Professor’s Suicide

Last month, a Professor of Communications at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary took his...

September 01, 2015

Josh Duggar: What It Took

But sometimes, despite the huge safety net evangelicals have built up over decades to prevent...

August 2015

August 23, 2015

Another Professional Christian Ends Up on Ashley Madison (And That’s Not Even the Worst Part)

This professional Christian video blogger (or "vlogger") showed up on Ashley Madison in their customer...

August 06, 2015

Fireproof: Hunting Bears with an Umbrella.

(This is part of our Fireproof review week--here's the review itself and here's where I...

August 04, 2015

The Unequally Yoked Club: Fireproof’s Fatal Assumption

While someone might see this movie and assume--as I did repeatedly--that it was hawking a...

July 2015

July 28, 2015

5 Reasons Why Christian Apology Campaigns Fail

We've talked off and on in the past about various Christian "apology" movements, wherein earnest...

July 14, 2015

Why Christians Are Cruel to Non-Believers

People have always left Christianity and to some degree have spoken out against it, but...

July 10, 2015

Judging Hypocrites

I've been talking about Christian hypocrites for years, so I already knew that Christians like...

November 2013

November 08, 2013

The Kodak Marriage

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