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August 2015

August 06, 2015

Fireproof: Hunting Bears with an Umbrella.

(This is part of our Fireproof review week--here's the review itself and here's where I...

August 04, 2015

The Unequally Yoked Club: Fireproof’s Fatal Assumption

While someone might see this movie and assume--as I did repeatedly--that it was hawking a...

August 01, 2015

Fireproof Mega-Review

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

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 09, 2015

Jordan Root and Yet Another Child Abuse Scandal Erupting in Christianity Right Now.

We're still reeling from the Duggar sex abuse scandal, but on the heels of it...

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 07, 2015

A Tale of Two Christianities

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

April 2015

April 04, 2015

The Women of “God’s Not Dead”

Changed my mind; we'll do the Christian episode later. Today I want to talk more...

April 03, 2015

The Unequally Yoked Club: Relationships in God’s Not Dead

(Please consider all of my posts about this movie to be spoilerrific.) Last week I...

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...

December 2014

December 15, 2014

How the Purity Myth Destroys Lives

We've talked about the Purity Myth off and on here, and even knowing what I...

December 06, 2014

The Curious Case of the Undesirable Virgin

Christian culture thinks about virginity in a very particular way, and that's what we're going...

November 2014

November 18, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Second Fiddle.

Today I read a downright heartbreaking post (that now seems to have disappeared, alas, sorry...

October 2014

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...

October 16, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: Yes Yes, But What Does It Look Like?

I wanted to briefly discuss something I talked about last time, about couples "basing their...

October 13, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: The Most Important Thing.

Hi y'all! We've been talking lately about how quite a few Christians base their marriages...

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...

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 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...

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 20, 2014

Dividing to Conquer

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

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 14, 2014

It’s Okay If You’re a Christian

Today we're going to talk about how, to toxic Christians, the only moral lie is...

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 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 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...

January 2014

January 30, 2014

Scary, Scary Words.

Many years ago, I was in a Bible study with a bunch of older married...

January 22, 2014

The Superiority Complex

I don't know if diversity education works--the jury seems to be out on that one--but...

January 20, 2014

Life After Grace

I used to hate Sundays, but I love 'em now. No fuss, no muss, get...