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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 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...

October 2015

October 17, 2015

Rape Culture and the Sentencing of Pastor G

Rape culture is the term we use to describe a society in which sexual aggressors...

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....

July 2015

July 01, 2015

Extremists Stop at Nothing: Transphobic and Anti-Vaxxer Edition

Tonight we'll be talking about two sets of extremists, both alarmingly similar in strategy and...

June 2015

June 11, 2015

Covenanters Anonymous: What the TVC-Jordan Root Scandal Means for Right-Wing Christianity

Recently we talked about the Jordan Root/TVC scandal, which involved a megachurch learning about a...

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...

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 20, 2015

The Handbook: Examining the Evidence

I wasn't stupid, willfully-ignorant, or mentally will when I made the decision to become a...

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 25, 2015

A Particularly Ugly Episode in the Christian Culture Wars

It's been a rather mind-blowing week over in Christian Bizarro-land. The anniversary of the landmark...

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...

December 04, 2014

Shaming a President’s Daughters.

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

November 2014

November 30, 2014

And I Still Belong To Me.

A new friend of mine wrote a blog post at Ex-Communications about Christianity's massive blind...

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 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 05, 2014

SCOTUS and Collateral Damage

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

July 04, 2014

Pride

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

June 2014

June 02, 2014

Oh Noes! A Baptism Drought!

One group of Christians, however, is finally coming to grips with their own drop in...

May 2014

May 29, 2014

The Christian’s Guide to Ex-Christians: Stop Defending Slavery

Seriously, folks, we're going to have to be really careful about how we present atrocities...

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 24, 2014

The Sand’s Just Fine.

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

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 22, 2014

An Unfractured Fairy Tale About Listening

Today's story is about a space princess and the person who listened to her, and...

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...

January 08, 2014

The Gripping Hand.

There's a science-fiction novel by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle called The Gripping Hand. In...

January 05, 2014

The Unequally Yoked Club: What Changed, and What Didn’t

After I deconverted, my husband was convinced that I'd change dramatically. I wanted to talk...

January 03, 2014

No, Virginia, Jesus Doesn’t Magically Change People

I've seen some additional--and dramatic-- stories of Christians who did not actually experience the 180...