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March 2014

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 18, 2014

Love Is As Love Does

Today I want to talk about love. I know we've talked before about how many...

February 2014

February 24, 2014

Self-Love is Love Too

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

February 22, 2014

We’re All In This Thing Together.

Well, I officially have a diabetic cat now. He is about 12 years old, and...

February 20, 2014

The Love Narrative in “The Last Unicorn”

Our journey into both love and that happy land of books you really should have...

February 18, 2014

“I know,” he said, she said.

Long ago, in a galaxy far away, I got my first taste of Star Wars...

February 17, 2014

“I love you,” Buttercup Said

Narratives are story-like structures we create in our minds to organize events. They help us...

February 16, 2014

Dancing Into the Love Shack with Sappho

This week I'm going to be writing about love. It seems like a good time...

February 14, 2014

Perfect Love Casts Out Fear

This is a love story, but it is not about another person. That would come...

February 13, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Why “One Flesh” is Two Disasters In the Making

Valentine's Day is coming up, and with it, a middle-aged married person's thoughts turn to...

February 10, 2014

Learned Helplessness.

When you're helpless and at a serious physical disadvantage, your perceptions of potentially challenging situations...

February 06, 2014

Christian Mary Sues

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

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 31, 2014

An Update on That Macklemore Grammys Story

I didn't feel like updating the story I did about the Grammys yet again (hopefully...

January 27, 2014

This Made Me Blubber Like a Little Girl Watching “Old Yeller”

In 2014, the band Macklemore and Mary Lambert performed their song "Same Love" live at...

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 06, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Building a Better Husband

A social experiment is technically just an experiment run on people, to study how groups...

January 05, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: What Changed, and What Didn’t

After I deconverted, my husband was convinced that I'd change dramatically. I wanted to talk...

January 02, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: It’s My House Too

One thing that seems to crop up in the news over and over again are...

December 2013

December 31, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Difference Engine

Long ago, Charles Babbage came up with designs for a machine that could accurately create...

December 29, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: Bad Advice, or, The Real Things I Wish I’d Known Before Getting Married.

I love bad advice. I admit it. I've always had a huge affection for bad...

December 26, 2013

Logical Christians.

I hope your holidays are going well so far! Welcome back. I realized not long...

December 23, 2013

OMG UTAH! Congratz!

Weddings make me so emotional. They're such a raw, visceral statement of hope and love,...

December 18, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: As I Lay Dying (To Myself).

One of the hardest parts about deconverting out from under a fundagelical marriage was unlearning...

November 2013

November 08, 2013

The Kodak Marriage

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

November 06, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Terrible Bargain

(Content warning: lots and lots of sexism directed at Yr. Loyal Correspondent, but I'll spoiler...

November 02, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: Why Can’t Things Just Go Back the Way They Were? (I’ll tell you why)

Welcome back. BTW, did you know that the Halloween post is where we busted 666...

October 2013

October 29, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: Turnabout Was Fair Play

Some time after breaking up with Biff, I ended up in a teeny tiny town...

October 26, 2013

The Unequally Yoked Club: How Many Soulmates Can One Cavern Hold?

I know I've touched on the topic of soulmates before, but I ran across a...