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February 2017

February 08, 2017

Jermaine Simmons: Clearly This Hypocritical Pastor’s Jesus Aura Was on Point

Today we're going to take a brief segue before we plunge into the murky world...

October 2016

October 05, 2016

The Real Danger of Being Unequally Yoked

The ironic thing is that out of all the made-up, manufactured terrors that Christians burden...

October 01, 2016

Evangelical Churn: The Same Thing Ed Stetzer Does Every Night

They're doing everything they know how to do as best they can, and yet they...

September 2016

September 29, 2016

Leaving the Ring

Christian leaders themselves can spin-doctor the latest bad news as much as they like (and...

September 25, 2016

The Alternate Reality of Christian Mingle: The Movie

Last time we met up, we were talking about Christian Mingle: The Movie. It's a...

July 2016

July 24, 2016

A Match Made in Hell for People to Be “Loved.”

Preston Sprinkle, in his book People to Be Loved, expresses some truly atrocious ideas. Arguably...

July 20, 2016

Joshua Harris Wants to Know if Anyone Was Hurt By His Book

Josh Harris is one of the scions of the homeschooling and courtship fringes of the...

July 03, 2016

A Cold First Option for People to Be “Loved”

We've been talking for a while now about right-wing Christians' culture war against LGBTQ people,...

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....

May 2016

May 11, 2016

The National Day of Grandstanding and How It Fails

Last time, I uncovered some interesting links between the National Day of Prayer (NDP) and...

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...

March 02, 2016

5 Non-Supernatural Claims Christians Make (and Why They’re Not Credible Either)

It's not hard to poke holes in Christianity's supernatural claims. Anybody with a reasonable grasp...

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...

October 2015

October 13, 2015

The Anatomy of Doublespeak: That ACBC Conference

Last time I talked about a recent conference held at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary...

September 2015

September 27, 2015

Leopards Don’t Change Their Spots: Kim Davis Edition

Kim Davis is from a family of super-duper-fervent Christians in a super-duper-religious town, but she...

September 19, 2015

I Bet Kim Davis Thought This Was Super-Sneaky And Oh So Clever

In the ongoing saga of sanctimonious bigot Kim Davis, apparently she is not content to...

September 18, 2015

Here’s Why The Christian Right is Totally Wrong About This Clobber Verse

In this post, David J. Murphy specifically addresses one of the several "clobber verses" Christians...

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 05, 2015

Fireproof: Making and Breaking the Promises

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

September 04, 2015

Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely: Kim Davis Edition.

Kim Davis, the bigot-for-Jesus County Clerk who refused to issue licenses because she thought equal...

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 26, 2015

The Love Dare: Repackaged and Warmed-Over Glurge.

I scared up a copy, got reading, and then went through a second time and...

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 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 11, 2015

As Seen in Fireproof: The Love Dare, Or How to Get Divorced In Six Short Weeks

You can't really talk about Fireproof without talking about the Love Dare, and vice versa....

August 08, 2015

How Non-Christians’ Marriages Work (Um, Right?)

Considering the overweening and galactic-level hubris they're displaying by daring to offer serious advice to...

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...