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October 2021

October 16, 2021

The Drama Triangle Explains a Lot

I saw this thing about the drama triangle recently, and it explained so much. Today, let me...

September 2021

September 02, 2021

How to Totally Solve Spiritual Drought

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we checked out a Christian essay describing spiritual drought. That's the...

April 2021

April 21, 2021

Celebrity PKs Arise: The Preachers’ Kids Speak

Hi and welcome back! Of late, I'm noticing a new trend in the news: the...

March 2021

March 03, 2021

Ex-Christians and the Myth of the Virtuous Deconversion Excuse

Today, let me show you what a virtuous excuse is, and why you'll find none...

March 02, 2021

Stewart-Allen Clark and the Double Message Evangelical Men Send to Women

Today, let me show you the double message that evangelical men send the women in...

February 2021

February 19, 2021

Sheila Wray Gregoire Doesn’t Realize That Evangelicals Already HAVE a “Jesus-Centered Sexual Ethic”

Lately, evangelicals are understandably much abuzz about their most recent batch of sex scandals. In...

December 2020

December 30, 2020

Donald Trump Jr. and the Lessons Authoritarians Learn

One long-running interest of mine has been authoritarianism -- and its effects on individuals. We...

December 09, 2020

Why Evangelicals Can’t Quit Transactional Thinking

Today, I want to show you why his request is impossible for evangelicals to obey....

November 2020

November 25, 2020

‘Christian Love’ as a Tool for Gaslighting

Hi and welcome back! We've got a quick little segue ahead of us. A recent...

November 15, 2020

How Evangelical Men Try (And Fail) to Pick Perfect Wives

We've been talking lately about right-wing Christians' conceptualization of marriage. Uniformly, their marriage rules don't...

November 10, 2020

Why Evangelicals Can’t Follow Their Own Rules About Sex

Today, let's wonder together why evangelicals' sex rules give believers so much trouble.

November 08, 2020

Why Evangelicals Hate Unapproved Sex the Most

In the evangelical world of all sins being equal, unapproved sex remains the sin that...

September 2020

September 30, 2020

Weaponized Pet Names: Recognize This Control-Grab

Hi and welcome back! I find inspiration in the strangest places sometimes. Case in point:...

June 2020

June 24, 2020

Unchurched: The Coin Lee Strobel Offers

Hi and welcome back! Let's turn now to an important idea in Lee Strobel's 1993...

May 2020

May 10, 2020

Captain Cassidy and the Case of the Mother’s Day Geraniums

Whether those connections are bound to us by blood or by choice, they're what matter...

April 2020

April 27, 2020

Why the Hogans’ Marriage Seems So Evangelical in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #139, Ch. 21)

In this installment, we check out the deteriorating marriage of Kate and Marshall Hogan. In...

December 2019

December 02, 2019

The Stuff NOBODY Talks About in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #119, Ch. 12)

In this installment, Sandy Hogan endures a conversation that literally nobody has ever had in...

November 2019

November 26, 2019

I Was a Purple Christian People Pleaser

Maybe it's so easy to switch flavors of Christianity because at heart, most of them...

October 2019

October 31, 2019

The Sacrifice of the Marriage Lamb: An Evangelical Horror Story

Today, we travel the horrifying route between what evangelical leaders teach about marriage, and what...

October 01, 2019

When Christians Express Serious Doubts To Each Other

A year or so ago, our friend Brad asked Christians what it'd take for them...

August 2019

August 17, 2019

The Most Important Christian Claims (Fail Too)

Last time, we talked about the Christians who act all mystified about how their claims...

August 01, 2019

Jesus Told This Complementarian Dude To Marry Me

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been focusing on a doctrine in authoritarian Christianity called complementarianism....

July 2019

July 27, 2019

Bachelorette: Why Luke Crashed Hannah’s Rose Ceremony

Today, let me show you how an authoritarian, complementarian Christian man collided with the concept...

July 25, 2019

Respect: The Song And Dance That Makes Complementarians Content

Respect is such an important concept to understand when one discusses this ultra-authoritarian, misogynistic flavor...

July 20, 2019

Bachelorette: Why Luke Parker Thought Hannah Brown Owed Him Anything

On the reality show The Bachelorette, a Christian man lost his ever-loving mind when a woman he...

July 19, 2019

Josh Harris Is Kissing His Marriage Goodbye

Coming as it did right near the height of evangelical dominance in America, courtship culture...

June 2019

June 15, 2019

The Worst ‘Father’ in the World

From all the Daddy God blathering to the Heavenly Father crowd, Christians can't resist comparing...

April 2019

April 11, 2019

If Only He Knew (What Compassion Is)

While reading this awful book, I quickly realized that Gary Smalley wasn't suggesting his readers...

April 06, 2019

If Only Gary Smalley’s Fans Knew (What a Hypocrite He Was)

As I read this book, I began noticing a lot of problems with it. The...

April 02, 2019

If Only He Knew: This’ll Be On the Quiz

Author Gary Smalley coaches complementarian men in repairing their failing marriages. And as we all...