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August 2021

August 27, 2021

The Silence of Pamphile of Epidaurus (1st-Century Fridays #10)

Hi and welcome back! It's Friday, and that means our attention turns to history. Specifically,...

May 2021

May 19, 2021

Back When Al Mohler Supported Women Pastors

Yesterday, I showed you the re-eruption of a decades-old slapfight going on in evangelicalism: whether...

May 18, 2021

Exactly Why Evangelicals Keep Arguing About Women Pastors

There's an extremely good reason why evangelicals are so stuck on this one question. It's not a...

May 09, 2021

An Evangelical Site Tries Hard to Ignore Their Single Moms

In the April issue of Christianity Today (CT), their cover story involved the most hilarious bait-and-switch attempt...

November 2020

November 04, 2020

The Love Narrative Fouling Up the Evangelical Husband Hunt

A few days ago, we started talking about a 2008 book, Where Have All the Good...

July 2020

July 12, 2020

The Exodus of Single Women From Christianity Continues

Hi and welcome back! One of this blog's central concerns remains the decline of Christianity...

October 2018

October 23, 2018

The Husband Hunt: An Evangelical Horror Story

Conservative Christian leaders have sold their female followers a bill of goods about marriage. Today,...

October 01, 2018

Miracles for Sale (LSP #62)

Every time I think I've seen the lowest that opportunists can go, they reach a...

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...

August 2017

August 03, 2017

Burnout: Pastors’ Wives Confess All

Today I'll show you what this problem looks like, what the women dealing with the...

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....

February 2016

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...

April 2015

April 12, 2015

The Unwashed Heathens of “God’s Not Dead”

Today I want to talk about how this movie presents non-white and/or non-Christian characters. As...

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...

February 2015

February 25, 2015

A Monopoly on Manliness

One of the genuinely weirdest turns that fundagelical Christianity has taken in recent decades has been...

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...

January 2015

January 14, 2015

Taylor Swift’s Bubble

"You Belong With Me" is a fairy tale about the Purity Myth--and about how conforming...

December 2014

December 17, 2014

Human Dignity Flutters Free, Again.

(Content note: Religious extremism and terrorism.) It was such an ugly, ugly story--and all the...

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...

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 15, 2014

Christian Charlatans

The other day I discovered that one of this site's favorite charlatans and bullshit artists,...

May 2014

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 16, 2014

Exiting Far East: The Standards of Beauty (Really Aren’t).

Jazz played on the stereo, the notes mingling with nickel-sized snowflakes blowing in through the...

January 2014

January 23, 2014

I Have a Quick Question About Little House on the Prairie.

Y'all probably noticed a while ago that I adore the Bullshit! show. So I'm watching...

December 2013

December 22, 2013

O Holy Night, the Stars Are Brightly Shining: Virgin Births

This time of year seems quite appropriate to talk about a virgin birth. Or rather,...

December 03, 2013

Taking It Back

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

November 2013

November 28, 2013

Just Leave. (Or Not.)

I've got the turkey in the oven at last (we're moving a bit late at...

November 26, 2013

Redefining Words: Sexism and “Agreeing to Disagree”

I saw this impassioned plea made by a Christian for people to agree to disagree...

September 2013

September 10, 2013

The Daughters of Women

A while ago I wrote a post called "The Daughters of Men" in which I...

August 2013

August 14, 2013

The Daughters of Men.

(TW: Misogynistic asshole fundie fathers brainwashing their daughters ahead. Survivors, proceed with your spoons out.)...