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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 21, 2016

Donald Trump, Bloom County, and the Short, Self-Serving Memory of the Religious Right

I was recently reminded of just how self-serving and short right-wing Christians' memories are, and...

January 12, 2016

The Broken System: Asking the Right Questions

I heard about this story a while ago, but I wanted to hold off on...

December 2015

December 29, 2015

Prohibition: Being Doomed to Repeat It

I recently watched a documentary that said some stuff that really touched a chord in...

December 24, 2015

The Reason for the Season

There is a "reason for the season." It's just not the one that Christians imagine.

December 23, 2015

Republican and Christian Leaders Are Asking Which Way Their Followers Went

Someone needs to remind Republican voters and Christians alike that their leaders are trying to...

December 18, 2015

Because That’s Where the Money’s Kept: Why They Treat Us Like Toddlers

In the same exact way, when Christians treat non-believers like children, they are showing us...

December 17, 2015

A Manifesto and Declaration of Rights and Expectations

Someone asked if I'd please post this part by itself and the idea seemed to...

December 16, 2015

Eating Candy for Dinner: Why They Treat Us Like Toddlers

Last time we met up, I was talking about how weary I am about being...

December 08, 2015

Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin: How a Bad Idea Becomes Canon

Last time we talked about the phrase "love the sinner, hate the sin," which many...

December 03, 2015

Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin: An Essential Disconnect

There are a great many discrepancies between the goals Christians say they want to achieve,...

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...

November 2015

November 19, 2015

Update Time! Where Are They Now?

While writing about Ben Carson, I realized that it's been a while since I checked...

November 08, 2015

To Flounce or Not to Flounce: Christians Are Starting to Admit They’ve Lost Their Culture War.

I couldn't help but notice a major shift in the tenor of how Christians are...

November 05, 2015

Airline High School: Evangelicals’ Captive Audience

Airline High School of Louisiana has a problem. Airline is a public school that has...

September 2015

September 12, 2015

Condoning Sin: The New Way to Judge Without Sounding Judgey

The drumbeat of hypocritical defenses of bigots-for-Jesus for their fellow bigots-for-Jesus continues as Christians continue...

September 10, 2015

What Kim Davis Thinks She Won (And What She Really Lost)

Watching her, reading her words, I get the sense that she at least thinks she...

September 07, 2015

Kim Davis: Right-Wing Theocrats Are Actually Right About One Thing.

Really, the only redeeming feature of these numerous and increasingly-disturbed-sounding predictions is that not only...

September 05, 2015

Fireproof: Making and Breaking the Promises

That brand of Christianity makes some distinct promises to its adherents. If you do this,...

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 30, 2015

It’s Sunday. Do Christians Know Where Their Pastor Is?

As I've been doing almost every day since the Ashley Madison scandal broke, I got...

August 28, 2015

The Ongoing Ashley Madison Crisis: 400 Pastors Might Resign on Sunday. Maybe. Any Minute.

From Ed Stetzer, a Southern Baptist Convention leader who absolutely never gets anything seriously wrong...

August 25, 2015

David Helm Knows There’s a Path to Redemption, Because He Drove A Race Car On It

Meet 35-year-old David Helm, an Air Force guy who just got sentenced to 25 years...

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 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....

August 21, 2015

… And Now We Learn About Josh Duggar’s Secret Facebook Account

I need to be really careful about what I say. Last time we talked, I...

August 20, 2015

Let the Spinning Commence for Josh Duggar

Yesterday I noted that Josh Duggar, whose name has been linked to the Ashley Madison...

August 19, 2015

Josh Duggar, OKCupid, and Ashley Madison Walked Into a Bar…

I thought there wasn't much of a way that a sanctimonious bigot-for-Jesus who molested and...

August 08, 2015

This Affair Represents A New Twist on the Old Story of Christian Bigots Turning Out to Be Hypocrites

We've got a full post planned for tomorrow, but for now, I saw this and...