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May 2017

May 08, 2017

the power of negative thinking

Convenient amnesia about one’s own past failures: drop-outs, firings, unplanned pregnancies, delinquencies? Never happened. Mind...

May 04, 2017

how not to be pro-life: a quick overview

Tell parents of disabled children to start a GoFundMe, or maybe a bake sale! It's...

April 2017

April 30, 2017

Women As “Gatekeepers of Morality”: A Recipe for Abuse

Why is it always the women who are expected to reform the men?

April 27, 2017

my other problem with the “Benedict Option”

If students are being proselytized and shielded from any alternative views, they will not acquire...

April 24, 2017

When Christian Women Tell You What We Hear

"A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle" is taken as an...

April 19, 2017

who’s listening when we talk about abortion?

You see what the woman is running towards. You don’t see what she’s running from.

April 15, 2017

Mary Magdalene – Preacher or Prostitute?

Both the prostitute legend and the wife theory reduce Mary to her sexuality. And so,...

April 10, 2017

Jesus was not an alpha

unless you want to define and redefine and twist the concept until it has no...

April 05, 2017

my family did the benedict option before it was cool – and here’s why it doesn’t work

And there’s something touchingly tragic about it: because on a fundamental level, one can see...

April 04, 2017

don’t like all the negativity in the blogosphere? there’s a cure for that

Why aren’t you talking about the lives of the Metaphysical Poets, or the Catacombs of...

April 01, 2017

all hail the tricksters

There's a reason why comedians get a kick out of mocking Nazis. Nazis just can't...

March 2017

March 31, 2017

on the mike pence dining option, and why feminists are expressing criticism

In the flurry of debate arising about Mike Pence's rules for association with women other...

March 27, 2017

female beauty, religion, and fetishism

Female beauty is seen as some kind of proof of divine goodness, as a symbol...

March 22, 2017

The Ever-Moving Goalpost of Eliminating Abortion Supply

What is emerging is a right-wing narrative that favors eugenics, nativism, social Darwinism, and white...

March 18, 2017

the feast of st. patrick, potato famine, and the consequences of injustice

So if indigenous slaves hadn't been forced to harvest bat poo in Peru, and if...

March 10, 2017

H.R. 1313: part of the trend of eugenics

And would people of Jewish descent - or other genetically at-risk demographics - be especially...

March 08, 2017

things not to say, if you actually respect women

If you're passing around memes mocking contemporary feminists, you are the type who would have...

March 05, 2017

shocking material in fairy tales – or, nothing new under the sun

The old stories that come to us out of an older, folk mythos, have been...

March 03, 2017

the defense of the unborn, and the demands of justice

If you wake up one day with a violinist attached to you it is unjust,...

February 2017

February 28, 2017

Carnivale and Social Justice

The purpose of ritual licence, in which everything but violence is permitted, and no guilt...

February 27, 2017

talking to my child about privilege

My son, usually very relaxed about conversations on topics of justice, rolled his eyes. "But...

February 21, 2017

how should a christian respond to milo?

Our image of the loser guy in his mom's basement drooling over porn and proliferating...

February 16, 2017

how can we counter the anti-semitism of right-wing reactionaries?

This is what I think of at the corollary to the Banality of Evil: the...

February 14, 2017

the feast of st valentine for the morbid and melancholy

For those of us who can't stand pink fluffy stuff, being more inclined towards the...

February 10, 2017

ten things we feminists wish you knew about us

First of all: there are many feminisms. What you learn about what feminist, or one...

February 06, 2017

“Trump and the conservatives” – a mistake and a misnomer

But the thing is, Trump is not a conservative. He's not even wobbling on the...

February 04, 2017

are you a conservative? are you sure?

So, are you a conservative? If so, I tip my hat to you (imagine me...

January 2017

January 31, 2017

sexist reactions legitimize the women’s march

While I never hid the fact that I was critical of several aspects of the...

January 27, 2017

I’m pro-life, and that’s why I oppose Trump

It's a given that being pro-life means defending the dignity of the unborn. But from...

January 24, 2017

“save the storks”: a pro-life organization to support

We think abortion will end when women don’t feel they have to end their pregnancies...