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June 2014

June 12, 2014

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: When Nice Christians Aren’t Really Nice

Christianity's got a big image problem, and a lot of the reason for that problem...

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 21, 2014

Silencing Tactics: the Great Joyce Meyer Update

You want to hear something funny? I've only rarely had to seriously moderate comments on...

May 19, 2014

Exiting Far East: Falling Apart

As I look back at my experience living abroad, brief as it was, one thing...

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...

April 16, 2014

On the Making of Mini-Mes.

A while ago there was a movie out called I, Robot. One of its most...

April 14, 2014

How Not to Be a Compelling Witness

It's almost a pity that most of modern Christianity has this major hard-on for evangelism...

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...

April 02, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: When Love Becomes Contempt

The opposite of love might not be hate, but contempt. I once heard a marriage...

March 2014

March 31, 2014

Congratulations, Christians of World Vision.

Congratulations. I mean that, O Christians running and supporting World Vision charities. Christians' overwhelming desire...

March 20, 2014

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: You’ve Got to Quit This Tone Trolling.

Today I saw an article about Kevin Sorbo, who has clearly ridden the short bus...

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 03, 2014

Bill Gothard: To Catch a (Christian) Predator

I wanted to introduce y'all to Christian leader Bill Gothard. He's in the news lately...

March 02, 2014

Sex Scandals: I Don’t Think This Is How Jesus Loved the Little Children

Meet 35-year-old sex offender Robert David Wright, who was a youth pastor. You're already cringing,...

February 2014

February 25, 2014

Forsaking Disbelief, or Not.

You don't often see Christians talking about their terror of Hell in their out-loud voices....

February 24, 2014

Self-Love is Love Too

To wrap up Love Week, I want to talk about some of the biggest taboos...

February 07, 2014

Mental Health

This link is about the son of Virginia State Senator Creigh Deeds, who suffered a...

February 06, 2014

Christian Mary Sues

This blog writes itself. Case in point: The night before last, my doorbell rang. I...

February 05, 2014

What Pearl-Clutching Doesn’t “Just” Do.

It's been a really bad week to be a moralistic, paternalistic, patriarchal, slut-shaming, ignorance-glorifying Christian....

February 03, 2014

A Thought About Love and Feedback

I realized something yesterday: It is not the person performing a loving deed who gets...

January 2014

January 20, 2014

Life After Grace

I used to hate Sundays, but I love 'em now. No fuss, no muss, get...

January 19, 2014

Right-Wing Christians: The Biggest Threat To Traditional Marriage.

Quick little dash in to say hi and talk about the Christian concept of "traditional...

January 10, 2014

The Great Omission

Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father,...

January 08, 2014

Speaking of Good Christian Husbands: Meet Bill Young, Lovin’ and Leavin’ ‘Em.

"I'll just leave this here, shall I," said the Captain, her lazy Texan drawl absolutely...

January 03, 2014

No, Virginia, Jesus Doesn’t Magically Change People

I've seen some additional--and dramatic-- stories of Christians who did not actually experience the 180...

December 2013

December 24, 2013

Post-Christian (Nation) Exhaustion

Christians call their religion the "good news," but there's even better news today in the...

December 19, 2013

The Best of All Possible Worlds: The Hypocrisy of Lying About Happiness

When I was Christian, I thought that being a Christian was this awesome and wonderful...

December 13, 2013

Dancing Bears

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

December 03, 2013

Taking It Back

The other day I ran across this blog entry about the links between super-duper-racist rednecks...

December 01, 2013

Christian Plagiarism.

The other day, a Christian radio host accused megapastor (and smirking Lizard King of misogynists)...