Reading Time: 3 minutes Growing up in the 80s, one of the most frustrating but mandatory Halloween rituals was dumping out my bag of candy for inspection. Up until I was a teenager, I was strictly forbidden to eat a single piece until my mother searched my candy thoroughly. The reason, my mother said, was so that she could […]
Halloween
Posted inSatire
Which politician’s house should you trick-or-treat at this Halloween?
Reading Time: 3 minutes Halloween is fast approaching and we know how stressful it can be to figure out where to trick-or-treat. With so many options, we want to make sure that if you’re visiting a politician’s house for a sugary treat, you know what you’re in for. Have a spooooky good time! Kamala Harris Gives out sugar-free Russell […]
Posted inThe Secular
Whither the witches?
Reading Time: 4 minutes Some version of the word witch is found in all languages and cultures and it generally refers to a person, often female, who is thought to affect people and the material world through benevolent or malevolent magic. The problem for the word in American and European usage is that it is so laden with connotations […]
Posted inFilm/TV
The scariest horror films you’ve never seen: Cure (1997)
Reading Time: 4 minutes Do you need jump scares to have a scary film? As I look through the catalog of horror films that have had the strongest impact on me, it is almost always the films whose images of horror linger on screen. Jump scares rely on surprise, a sudden shift in tone. There are some films with […]
Posted inCartoons
Halloween Costumes
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Posted inReligion
A haunted house at Halloween? Let’s visit a Hell House!
Reading Time: 6 minutes An imaginary letter from hell demands that Christians preach the gospel to steer unbelievers away from hell. But poke into that logic and it falls apart.
Posted inGeneral
Evangelical Men’s Impossible Dream of Marriage
Reading Time: 8 minutes What these men want in marriage isn’t completely unreasonable. So (I wondered) why can’t they find it?
Posted inReligion
Denial in the Great Husband Hunt: An Evangelical Horror Story
Reading Time: 12 minutes Hi and welcome back! Today, as we’ve been doing for a while now on Halloween, we turn our attention to one of the biggest horror stories in evangelicalism: the Great Evangelical Husband Hunt. This year, our tale centers on the husband-hunting evangelical women who’ve reached the denial phase of their failed hunt. (Some previous posts about […]
Posted inCartoons, General
Spooky Moon Times
Reading Time: < 1 minute Halloween season got me feeling all monster-y.
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Trick or Treaters
Reading Time: < 1 minute After the previous two pieces of Halloween nonsense, I have a slightly more serious take on this fun holiday. It can be summed up in three words: Not This Year And that is sad, particularly for my wife, who always has a lot of fun on Halloween night. She dresses up as a witch, and […]