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June 2016

June 30, 2016

Looking for Boaz In All the Wrong Places

One of the viral things going around lately is this Washington Post op-ed called "Fat....

June 26, 2016

The Three Deceptions Found in “People to Be Loved”

Preston Sprinkle's book People to Be Loved outlines the right-wing Christian case for opposing same-sex...

March 2016

March 21, 2016

The Happiness Hucksters

We've been talking about happiness lately: what it is and isn't, and why Christians seem...

February 2016

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...

February 14, 2016

5 Things Christianity Gets Wrong About Love

It didn't take me long at all to realize that I had been stone-cold wrong...

December 2015

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...

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...

August 2015

August 13, 2015

Fireproof: Making Love Out of Nothing At All

This movie echoes something I myself was taught as a young fundamentalist: that by doing...

August 01, 2015

Fireproof Mega-Review

Everybody can learn new things. Why, just this morning I figured out how to get...

May 2015

May 17, 2015

Patheos Book Club: The Hand on the Mirror and TOWTTHO

Janis Heaphy Dunham has written a book about her dive into the world of supernatural...

May 09, 2015

On the Lips and Hearts of All Children: Mother.

"Mother" is a serious word to me, one that encompasses care, love, sacrifice, courage, hard...

February 2015

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 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...

December 2014

December 17, 2014

Human Dignity Flutters Free, Again.

(Content note: Religious extremism and terrorism.) It was such an ugly, ugly story--and all the...

December 09, 2014

Lord, Save Us From Your Followers’ Abuse–er, Love.

You'll never, ever see Christian love like you will when his most fervent adherents discover...

October 2014

October 22, 2014

The Most Misunderstood Word (Isn’t Kingdom, Sorry)

Christians like to talk about misunderstood words in their religion. But they tend to be...

October 18, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Real Threat.

Last time we talked about how church leaders and teachers have been pushing the false...

July 2014

July 27, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Dale’s New Book

Good news for folks in the UYC! Dale McGowan's newest book, In Faith and In...

July 23, 2014

Divine Wooing: It’s So Romantic

(CN: Religious abuse, domestic violence, stalking.) Today we're going to talk about one of the...

June 2014

June 20, 2014

Birthing Pains

I wanted to talk about something kinda metaphysical today. See, sometimes I get this overwhelming...

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...

June 08, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: An Open Letter to the Open-Letter Writer

Have you seen this blog post, An Open Letter to My Future Wife? We're going...

June 02, 2014

Oh Noes! A Baptism Drought!

One group of Christians, however, is finally coming to grips with their own drop in...

May 2014

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...

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 20, 2014

Dividing to Conquer

Welcome back. We've talked here before about Doug Phillips, uber-patriarch and onetime leader of the...

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 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 22, 2014

An Unfractured Fairy Tale About Listening

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