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June 2015

June 16, 2015

Do Not Piss Off Lesbians, And Other Surprising New Revelations About the Josh Duggar Abuse Scandal.

It's been a pretty weird week for the Duggars and their ongoing sex abuse scandal....

May 2015

May 26, 2015

The Loyalty Test and Ireland’s Referendum

They ache for the legitimacy of having a good reason to believe--all while having no...

March 2015

March 22, 2015

The Cult of Before Stories: Heather Barwick, Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth

I wish it could shock me anymore, seeing a family ripped apart by religion. It...

March 20, 2015

Science Denial Has Become Christianity’s Cheap Marker Belief

Science denial is a cheap belief to hold for Christians, which is why it's a...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

The Handbook: Examining the Evidence

I wasn't stupid, willfully-ignorant, or mentally will when I made the decision to become a...

February 04, 2015

The Handbook: Building a Worldview Around Consent

One of the biggest shifts I had to process in my thinking was my understanding...

January 2015

January 25, 2015

A Particularly Ugly Episode in the Christian Culture Wars

It's been a rather mind-blowing week over in Christian Bizarro-land. The anniversary of the landmark...

October 2014

October 07, 2014

Breaking: Tonight we feast on the tears of bigots

Equal marriage is coming. It is going to be a thing despite every single bit...

October 06, 2014

Persecution Complexity

Hi! I hope your weekend's going well so far. Today I want to talk about...

September 2014

September 14, 2014

Drilling Down

Today I saw this piece in Religion News Service about how some evangelicals are still...

September 04, 2014

Why They Lie.

(CN: Religious overreach, movie/book spoilers about Hot Fuzz and Watership Down.) The movie Hot Fuzz...

August 2014

August 10, 2014

Ding Dong, the Witch Is Dead (Mark Driscoll’s Disgrace)

(Content note: religious abuse, mind-blowing misogyny and anti-LGBTQ bigotry.) Big, big news, R2Ders! Over the...

August 06, 2014

Seventy Times Seven

Then Peter came and said to Him, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against...

August 01, 2014

It’s the Thought That Counts, Apparently

I was allowing myself to buy into the illusion of gourmet cooking without developing any...

July 2014

July 30, 2014

Out of the Fullness of the Heart.

Well, those computer problems are totally worse than I'd initially thought ("so that's what a...

July 04, 2014

Pride

We're going to talk tomorrow some about this SCOTUS decision, because I do have something...

June 2014

June 18, 2014

Intersectionality: Let’s You and Him Fight; I’ll Hold Your Coat

Today I want to talk briefly (no, really) about this idea you might hear me...

June 16, 2014

The Next War for the Christian Right

You might imagine that I get lots of requests to write about various things, but...

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 23, 2014

Remember that Dover Judge? He’s Just Ruled on Equal Marriage.

We are a better people than what these laws represent, and it is time to...

May 03, 2014

Exiting Far East: Fish out of Water

It's hard for me now to even think about all the different ways that I...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

The Sand’s Just Fine.

When Rachel Held Evans wrote her beautifully moving piece in the wake of the World...

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 31, 2014

Congratulations, Christians of World Vision.

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

March 22, 2014

An Unfractured Fairy Tale About Listening

Today's story is about a space princess and the person who listened to her, and...

March 05, 2014

The Terms of Their Surrender

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

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 08, 2014

The Great Debate (Wasn’t So Great After All)

Ken Ham and Bill Nye had a big debate recently. I was of two minds...