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November 2016

November 20, 2016

The Handbook: Intervention Conventions

We're fast approaching the holiday season, and as fun as holidays are supposed to be,...

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 13, 2016

The Reframing Game in “People to Be Loved”

Using very positive language to describe a very negative situation or feeling is a tactic...

July 10, 2016

Having No Ears to Hear the People to Be “Loved”

There's a huge, huge difference between listening to someone and really hearing them. Today I'll...

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....

June 26, 2016

The Three Deceptions Found in “People to Be Loved”

Preston Sprinkle's book People to Be Loved outlines the right-wing Christian case for opposing same-sex...

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...

August 2015

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 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 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...

April 2015

April 30, 2015

The Unkindest Cut: The Christians of God’s Not Dead

When Christians say they love movies like "God's Not Dead," or stoutly defend dreck like...

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...

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...

August 2014

August 18, 2014

Jefferson Bethke: When Sounding Deep Is Good Enough.

I noticed Jefferson Bethke's video making the rounds again, so I wanted to talk about...

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...

July 10, 2014

Constructive Anger in the Wake of the Hobby Lobby Ruling

Anger can be a considerable gift. It can spur us to action and cause us...

July 04, 2014

Pride

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

May 2014

May 11, 2014

Exiting Far East: A Mother’s Love.

Today, on Mother's Day, let me show you what real love feels like to experience....

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...