Reading Time: 12 minutes Let me tell you about the very night that my then-husband Biff realized that yes, I had completely deconverted, making us unequally yoked. Along the way, I’ll show you why my deconversion proved to be such an insurmountable problem for us.
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Steve Timmis’ Rise and Fall (Reveals a Serious Problem in Christianity)
Reading Time: 12 minutes The more seriously Christians take their ideology, the more dangerous a malignant leader becomes to them. One prime example of these rules could well be what just happened in Acts 29, a huge Christian church-planting business. Their leader, Steve Timmis, just lost his job there. And he lost it by being, apparently, a grade-A jerkweed. Today, let’s check out Acts 29 and see what red flags Steve Timmis might have been waving there long before his situation came to a crisis point.
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Willow Creek: Missing ALL the Red Flags
Reading Time: 13 minutes Last week, yet another sex scandal broke out in right-wing Christianity. But this one erupted from a megachurch famous for a slightly-less-sexist approach to women in leadership. So today, we’ll see how everyone in power at Willow Creek Community Church ignored a whole bunch of red flags that could have alerted them to an alleged predator operating in their midst–but didn’t, because of their utterly dysfunctional culture.
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Paige Patterson’s Having a Tough Time, Y’all
Reading Time: 9 minutes A while ago, we looked at Paige Patterson, a Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) leader who landed in very hot water thanks to his intense misogyny. Lately, he’s been trying to snake his way back into hucksterism–only to discover that SBC flocks are way less receptive to such comebacks than they used to be. Today, let’s cry tears of peanut butter for this reprobate and his difficulties–and then let’s see how his return to ministry’s progressing.
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A Complementarian Pastor’s ‘Simple Question’ (Has An Answer He Won’t Like)
Reading Time: 12 minutes As I read his disingenuous post, I got one of those surges of helpfulness that marks me as a person. So for today, I thought I’d help this guy answer his ‘simple question’ more truthfully and accurately than he managed.
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The Crybullies of Christianity (Don’t Understand Themselves)
Reading Time: 9 minutes Last time we met up, I showed you a survey that revealed what evangelicals believe about themselves. Today, I’ll show you how that self-image stacks up against reality.
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I Was a Purple Christian People Pleaser
Reading Time: 9 minutes Maybe it’s so easy to switch flavors of Christianity because at heart, most of them share the same humanity-crushing underpinnings. One of the worst of those underpinnings involves the systematic destruction of a person’s sense of boundaries and self-worth–and then the outlawing of any way for people to refuse impositions on their time. In that vein, here’s how Christianity programmed me to be a people pleaser.
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The Price of the Shining Wire: Evangelicals’ False Promise of Safety
Reading Time: 12 minutes When we believed, we pretended to live in perfect safety, like we curled up in the palms of our god’s hands–just like the rabbits of one warren in Watership Down. In reality, however, we lived in the enemy’s warren. And we paid the price of the shining wire.
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HumanGate: Al Mohler’s Emotional and Weak-Minded Amnesia
Reading Time: 10 minutes Poor Al Mohler. I can only imagine that his fragile emotional state, caused by his deep distress over women increasingly not caring what he thinks, led to him forgetting these important cultural shifts.
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Jesus Told This Complementarian Dude To Marry Me
Reading Time: 7 minutes Hi and welcome back! Lately, we’ve been focusing on a doctrine in authoritarian Christianity called complementarianism. This doctrine informs much of right-wing Christians’ thought processes and behavior. Especially for complementarian men, their doctrine writes them an easy permission slip for so much of the awful stuff they want to do. Today, I want to show you how […]