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March 2021

March 10, 2021

Megachurches: Not Actually the Cause of Christian Scandals

Many Christians also think that the megachurch model is causing their scandals and overall decline....

January 2020

January 07, 2020

Todd Bentley Gets By With A Little Help From His Friends

Last time we met up, I showed you a recent development in the evangelical world:...

July 2018

July 07, 2018

The Unequally Yoked Club: Terrible Christian Marriage Advice, Graded

Last time we met up, we talked about why Christians have such a bizarrely-regressive view...

June 2018

June 09, 2018

Complementarianism: Examining the First Claim

Christians who buy in to complementarianism make a lot of claims about this doctrine. Today,...

October 2017

October 27, 2017

Reconstructionism: Why Fundagelicals Can’t Have Nice Things

Complementarianism is an offshoot of a wackadoodle Christian ideology called Reconstructionism, which has gone from...

April 2017

April 15, 2017

Jesus Sure Changes People: Douglas Wilson Edition

You can see the divine Jesus Aura illuminating this man's life and see for yourself...

August 2016

August 04, 2016

That False Promise of Security in a Broken System

People in thrall to a broken system often believe that if they follow the system's...

July 2016

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...

December 2015

December 16, 2015

Eating Candy for Dinner: Why They Treat Us Like Toddlers

Last time we met up, I was talking about how weary I am about being...

August 2015

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...

June 2015

June 16, 2015

Do Not Piss Off Lesbians, And Other Surprising New Revelations About the Josh Duggar Abuse Scandal.

It's been a pretty weird week for the Duggars and their ongoing sex abuse scandal....

June 07, 2015

The Voice of False Submission and the Duggar Sisters’ Interview.

Michelle said in her breathy, wondering, affectation of a little-girl voice, "an.... agenda???" That voice...

May 2015

May 28, 2015

What Josh Duggar Shows Us About How Not to Apologize.

Here is what a real apology looks like, and notice, please, that the response of...

May 22, 2015

Christian News Sites’ Reactions to Josh Duggar’s Molestation Confession.

Only one site featured the story of Josh Duggar's pedophilia. I was surprised at which...

May 21, 2015

Josh Duggar and the Anatomy of a Not-Pology

By now you've likely heard about the scandal rocking the right-wing conservative Christ-o-sphere: Josh Duggar,...

May 25, 2014

What I’m Reading Lately Online

I was going to put these links at the end of various full posts, but...

May 19, 2014

Exiting Far East: Falling Apart

As I look back at my experience living abroad, brief as it was, one thing...

April 2014

April 29, 2014

Differing Conversations (We Can’t Both Be Right, Part II)

Have you ever talked to somebody who tells you one thing but tells someone else...

April 20, 2014

Dividing to Conquer

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

March 2014

March 03, 2014

Bill Gothard: To Catch a (Christian) Predator

I wanted to introduce y'all to Christian leader Bill Gothard. He's in the news lately...

January 2014

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...

December 2013

December 03, 2013

Taking It Back

The other day I ran across this blog entry about the links between super-duper-racist rednecks...