Reading Time: 9 minutes Hi and welcome back! Long ago, we established that Christian hypocrites in elected positions behaving badly no longer qualified as weird enough to remark upon, right? But this one all but cries out for our attention here. His case exposes some deep and old flaws in his end of Christianity. This one’s got it all: […]
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More Terrible Christian Marriage Advice in the Unequally Yoked Club
Reading Time: 14 minutes Years ago, I started a long blog series called The Unequally Yoked Club. It aimed to help Christian couples deal with a spouse’s deconversion at a time when the available advice sucked beyond all logical measure. Today, we’ll see that Christians’ marriage advice to the unequally-yoked has gotten worse in recent years.
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I Bet You Had No Idea It Was This Easy to Become an Apologist Like Natasha Crain
Reading Time: 10 minutes Today, I’ll introduce you to Natasha Crain and show you how she went from a rank-and-file pew-warmer to what sure looks like one of the foremost Christian experts in her field. It doesn’t sound like it was even all that hard to do!
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The Cult of Family and Its Failure to Launch
Reading Time: 7 minutes Do the most extremist, authoritarian flavors of Christianity really have a monopoly on the best marriages and happiest families? We’ll see. Today, let’s start with the belief itself–and why it’s so important to those who hold it.
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A God’s Eternal Standards Shift–Again–Sort Of (LSP #76)
Reading Time: 9 minutes A bunch of Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) folks have changed their opinion about one of the biggest markers of their denomination! Well, sort of.
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The UYC: How Marital Compatibility is (Mis)Defined (LSP #50)
Reading Time: 10 minutes In toxic Christianity, couples determine compatibility in a totally different way than most other folks do. Those standards simply don’t work to produce long-lasting marriages. But toxic Christians gotta toxic. I’ll show you what those standards are today, and why they prove so disastrous for Christians.
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The Unequally Yoked Club: The Meltdown of a Marriage
Reading Time: 10 minutes I’ve been wanting to return to the UYC lately, since I’ve seen new developments on that front in recent months. So today, I want to show you what happened after I deconverted from Christianity, and the ups and downs of how I handled sharing the news of that deconversion with my then-husband Biff. I didn’t do everything perfectly, but then, I reckon almost nobody ever does.
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This World Might Not Be Ready for Mark Driscoll’s Earth-Shattering Marriage Advice (LSP #31)
Reading Time: 12 minutes Today I want to show you how Mark Driscoll thinks we can all get away from all urges to commit extramarital sexytimes and maybe divorce: by making our spouses our own standard of beauty.
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MMS: A Miracle Cure That’s Neither Miraculous Nor a Cure
Reading Time: 11 minutes Here’s the story of the Miracle Mineral Solution, and how this woo fits into the fundagelical vision of the Happy Christian Family.
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Burnout: Pastors’ Wives Confess All
Reading Time: 17 minutes Today I’ll show you what this problem looks like, what the women dealing with the problem make of it, and what it means for the religion as a whole.