Reading Time: 2 minutes Villaggio Colafrancesco, a new gelato shop in Birmingham, Alabama, comes with a conservative Catholic twist: Customers are forbidden from wearing short shorts or spandex leggings, exposing their shoulders or cleavage, and cannot use their phones or laptops inside. Any actions that violate the “norm of Christian behavior” is prohibited. And don’t you dare take any […]
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Interview: The Satanic Chef, Adam Ostrofsky
Reading Time: < 1 minute I have known Adam for a few years now. We first met at The Satanic Temple’s headquarters. The Arizona chapter was all hanging out there while Stu, Michelle, and a few other people gave a series of talks. He went out and bought a grill and cooked an insane amount of food for everyone after […]
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I made instant vanilla pudding with dried camel milk
Reading Time: 2 minutes Let’s face it. We live in a world where it’s possible for grown adults to order dried camel milk online. What the hell do you do with it? Is it worth the price? Untested claims of camel milk Okay, so first of all, there seems to be this organopath trend that says something about the […]
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How I Accidentally Dove Into the Sourdough Trend
Reading Time: 5 minutes People are getting way into baking sourdough bread! And by pure accident, I found myself in the smack middle of this trend. Come along with me on a journey into a world of love, sourdough baking, and isolation.
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Living Behind A Mask
Reading Time: 12 minutes A recent scandal erupting on social media has shed some light on complementarianism and why it still exists despite being so obviously terrible. Come with me through an adventure in toxic communities. Then I’ll show you how this scandal relates to authoritarian Christianity–and why it’s so important for us to be able to identify the signs of a toxic community. Allez cuisine!
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What Ketchup Meringue Should Tell Christians About Ken Ham (But Won’t)
Reading Time: 13 minutes His suggestion is hilariously bad, by which I mean that it’s so inept and obviously self-serving that it’s had me chuckling at odd moments ever since it was brought up. I’ll show you what it is today and why it reminded me of a ketchup meringue recipe from the 1950s.
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Lord Snow Declares: Blessed Are the Cheesemakers. (LSP #6)
Reading Time: 2 minutes You have to wonder who the first person was to soak a bit of baby-animal-stomach in milk to make it form curds and then go, I’m gonna totally eat that.
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The Breaking of Bread.
Reading Time: 10 minutes I’ve always been fascinated with how people construct communities for themselves. Certainly many atheists have wrestled with how to create communities without the trappings and shackles of untrue supernatural claims. Well, this past weekend I got to enjoy one way that people are finding to connect with each other without religion.
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The Weird and Wacky Rise of Fundagelical Preppers.
Reading Time: 9 minutes One weird bit of right-wing fundagelical Christianity is their growing obsession with survivalist-style food hoarding. In this new trend, the worlds of apocalyptic fantasizing, awful food, eagerness to gloat, and sheer financial greed collide–and the results aren’t appetizing.
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It’s the Thought That Counts, Apparently.
Reading Time: 11 minutes I was allowing myself to buy into the illusion of gourmet cooking without developing any of the skills needed to cook. I thought I’d found the angle here, the magic get-out-of-effort-free card that would let me cook just like Julia Child without owning so much as a whisk.