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August 2021

August 18, 2021

Bitter: How Evangelical Women Cope With Their Seething Anger

Hi and welcome back! Last week, we talked about anger. Then, a few days ago,...

March 2021

March 13, 2021

Christian Love: Beth Moore Finally Left the SBC

Hi and welcome back! If you want to see what a group is really all about...

March 05, 2021

Charlie Shepherd and the Idaho Republicans Seeking Their Republic of Gilead

Hi and welcome back! This past week, an Idaho House Republican, Charlie Shepherd (R-Pollock), offered Idahoans...

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...

July 2020

July 22, 2020

Mark Regnerus Will TOTALLY Fix Marriage, Y’all!

Hi and welcome back! Yesterday, we looked at a really awful post by pseudoscientist Mark...

June 2020

June 01, 2020

How Villains Send a Message (LSP #144, Ch. 25)

Hi and welcome back! Lately, we've been reading and reviewing Frank Peretti's 1986 novel This Present...

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...

October 2019

October 07, 2019

The Jezebel Spirit Manifests in ‘This Present Darkness’ (LSP #111, Ch. 8)

If you couldn't tell, this book just fascinates me--not because of its writing or story,...

September 2019

September 07, 2019

Al Mohler Objectified Women As Usual, But This Time He Faced Backlash

Last week, Al Mohler did something he usually does: he objectified and literally dehumanized women....

August 2018

August 27, 2018

Book Review: Women v. Religion (LSP #57)

Today, Lord Snow Presides over a book that gives voices to the growing and increasingly-vocal...

June 2018

June 02, 2018

Rotted Fruit: Al Mohler and the Conservative Resurgence

We'll see how he secured a movement that is so important to him that he...

February 2018

February 04, 2018

No Low is Too Low: #MeToo Edition

This time the guy digging frantically for an even lower spot in my estimation of...

December 2017

December 15, 2017

How Fundagelical Leaders Will Reassure the Tribe After Roy Moore’s Defeat

Many political commentators have noted that the election wasn't just a statement from voters who...

November 2017

November 15, 2017

A “Second Glance” at the Subculture That Produced Roy Moore.

When the accusations began flowing against bigot-for-Jesus Roy Moore, that movie showed us exactly why...

April 2017

April 27, 2017

Robert Fisher: Instant Enlightenment NOT Found Here

My ex-C friends are reeling--as they should be--at the news that a recent Republican scandal...

October 2016

October 15, 2016

Paul Ryan Doesn’t Understand: Reverence IS Objectification

Members of the Christian Right may not realize this, but objectification takes at least two...

February 2016

February 12, 2016

Republicans are Becoming Team Disenfranchisement This Season, Too

Last time we talked, we were discussing Republicans' bizarre and grotesque view of rape as...

January 2016

January 31, 2016

Donald Trump and His Fans Viciously Attack Megyn Kelly, Accidentally Demonstrating Why Christianity is Failing So Hard

From TheWrap.com comes this story of yet another incident involving Donald Trump and his supporters...

February 2015

February 13, 2015

The Handbook: Generalizations and the Mommy Wars

We talked last time about a minister's wife who is convinced she knows exactly how...

December 2014

December 04, 2014

Shaming a President’s Daughters.

There is no low too low when it comes to the Christian Right. In this...

September 2014

September 04, 2014

Why They Lie.

(CN: Religious overreach, movie/book spoilers about Hot Fuzz and Watership Down.) The movie Hot Fuzz...

July 2014

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 05, 2014

SCOTUS and Collateral Damage

(Content notice: Misogyny.) I hadn't been planning to say much here about the Hobby Lobby...

June 2014

June 16, 2014

The Next War for the Christian Right

You might imagine that I get lots of requests to write about various things, but...

April 2014

April 24, 2014

The Sand’s Just Fine.

When Rachel Held Evans wrote her beautifully moving piece in the wake of the World...

January 2014

January 28, 2014

“Billy Did It Too” is Not An Adequate Reason to Misbehave

Sexism is over. Rand Paul said so, so we can all just relax.

December 2013

December 13, 2013

Dancing Bears

Today I want to talk about something I call "dancing bears"--that strange phenomenon you see...