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July 2015

July 18, 2015

Lying for Jesus, Audaciously.

I'm just going to warn you now: stuff like we're about to discuss today is...

July 04, 2015

SCOTUS: Tony Perkins Has No Idea What End is Up, As Usual.

I had no idea Tony Perkins was as blitheringly ignorant, incredibly dense and intellectually dishonest...

June 2015

June 27, 2015

How I Wish Christian Bigots Would Respond to the SCOTUS Decision

Ever since the case was announced on the docket for this summer, fundagelicals have been...

June 26, 2015

Heads in the Sand: Equal Marriage Edition (“We Lost This One”)

There's one part of the country that is not happy about the recent SCOTUS decision,...

June 11, 2015

Meet Nick and Sarah Jensen, Two More Christian Bigots Upset That Other People Are Happy

Meet Christian bigots and hypocrites Nick and Sarah Jensen from Australia. They're committed Christians who...

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...

May 07, 2015

A Tale of Two Christianities

There really are two types of Christian in this world, and one of them hates...

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...

March 04, 2015

Scott Lively and the Bonus Plan.

Sounds like a children's serial novel, doesn't it? Scott Lively and the Bonus Plan. Scott...

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 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 11, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: The One Pillar.

Welcome back, R2Ders! We're heading into the Unequally Yoked Club today. One thing I was...

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...

October 02, 2014

Their Way or the Highway

My friend Neil's been talking lately over at Godless in Dixie about some brouhaha going...

August 2014

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 04, 2014

Pride

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

June 2014

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...

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 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...

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 18, 2014

Love Is As Love Does

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

March 05, 2014

The Terms of Their Surrender

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

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 28, 2014

“Billy Did It Too” is Not An Adequate Reason to Misbehave

Sexism is over. Rand Paul said so, so we can all just relax.

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...