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May 21, 2025

God’s Plan™ Was Just a Eugenics Manual with Bible Verses

Beth Moore said the quiet part out loud. After years of front-line service in the...

May 14, 2025

You Can’t Serve Two Masters (But America Keeps Trying)

Let’s just say the quiet part out loud: nationalism and Christianity are not friends. They...

May 09, 2025

We Got a New Pope. Cool. So Now What?

White smoke rose, the bells rang, and just like that—we’ve got a new pope. Enter...

May 07, 2025

What Happens When You Stop Needing Jesus to Behave

This is what deconstruction actually looks like: not a rebellion, not a trend, not a...

April 2025

April 30, 2025

Trump 2.0: When God Loves You Enough to Break You

Trump 2.0: When God Loves You Enough to Break You Fox News recently declared that...

April 23, 2025

The Great Awakening (To Our Own Stupidity)

Remember when religious revivals were all the rage? The tent meetings, the sweaty preachers, the...

April 16, 2025

Why the Trinity Doesn’t Matter If We Don’t Love

Easter is this Sunday, and while most churches were busy declaring victory over sin and...

April 09, 2025

This Is Your Brain on MAGA

Or: How to Turn a Soul into Glass in Three Easy Steps In 79 AD,...

April 02, 2025

Christian Severance

If you haven’t seen Severance, it’s a chilling little workplace dystopia where employees voluntarily undergo...

March 2025

March 26, 2025

The Gospel of the Orphan Crushing Machine

The Orphan Crushing Machine isn’t real—but it should be. Or rather, it should be talked...

March 19, 2025

You Can’t Stop the Machine, But You Can Outlast It

There’s a certain point where you stop asking, “How did we get here?” and start...

March 12, 2025

How to Deal with Seriously Unserious People in Power

It used to be that if you wanted a career in politics, you at least...

March 05, 2025

You Don’t Have Faith, You Have Comfort

There’s a reason Kierkegaard thought of himself as a missionary to Christians. He saw them,...

February 2025

February 26, 2025

How American Christianity Grooms People to Embrace Fascism

There’s an old saying: If you want to know what people really believe, watch what...

February 19, 2025

Christianity Needs a Quiet Riot Now

You ever notice how the loudest people in Christianity are the ones with the least...

February 14, 2025

❤️ Valentine’s Day: From Sacred to Secular

Valentine’s Day: A time for love, romance, and an overpriced racket of chocolates and wilted...

February 05, 2025

How MAGA Exposed American Christianity’s Stockholm Syndrome

Sometimes, I wonder if Jesus would even recognize large swaths of American Christianity today. That...

January 2025

January 29, 2025

Kessler Syndrome and Christianity’s Theological Junkyard

Somewhere in the vast emptiness of space, an ever-growing cloud of debris hurtles around our...

January 20, 2025

MLK’s Wisdom in the Age of Trump: A Call to Resist

Did you ever notice how Martin Luther King Jr.'s story gets boiled down to the...

January 15, 2025

Three-Body Problem: Faith, Reality, and Modern Christianity

In science, the Three-Body Problem refers to the chaotic and unpredictable motion of three celestial...

December 2024

December 24, 2024

Let’s Ruin Christmas

Christmas is that season of joy, peace, and completely fabricated nativity scenes. So, while you’re...

December 18, 2024

When Love Gives Up the Ghost

“Give up the ghost” is one of those phrases that has stuck around long after...

December 10, 2024

Faith That Moves Mountains… Or Just Builds Molehills?

When Jesus said faith could move mountains, I doubt he meant rearranging molehills and calling...

December 03, 2024

Rethinking Masculine Strength Beyond Alpha Bro-vado

Former Catholic priest James Kavanaugh's poem, "There Are Men Too Gentle to Live Among Wolves,"...

November 2024

November 26, 2024

How to Survive Thanksgiving with Your Sanity and Soul Intact

I know many of you are still marinating in that dirty, post-election depression, stuck playing...

November 05, 2024

What Happens When Orange Jesus Fades?

You remember the story: Moses takes off for a bit to get some divine downloads,...

November 03, 2024

Polling, Preaching, and the “Nones”

Election season is in full swing, which means one thing—pollsters are blowing up your phone,...

October 2024

October 29, 2024

Faith’s Quest to Bridge the Unknowable

Ever found yourself staring at the ceiling at 3 AM, wondering what the hell it...

October 22, 2024

Snarky Review: Heretic, Too! by Matthew J. Distefano

Matthew J. Distefano’s Heretic, Too! doesn’t waste time playing nice with the usual Christian fluff....

October 15, 2024

Are We Really the Pinnacle of Creation?

Oh, humanity. We really do think we’re the center of the universe, don’t we? For...