Reading Time: 7 minutes Not long ago, we reviewed a Christian book called Where Have All the Good Men Gone? In this book, author A.J. Kiesling sought to find out just why it was so incredibly hard for single evangelicals to find spouses to their liking. Then, we laid a lot of groundwork about the dysfunction going on in evangelicals’ marriage hunts and relationships. Today, I’ll show you the massive dilemma facing today’s single evangelicals — and what it tells us about evangelicals as a group.
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Rod Dreher: Fretting About Evangelical Men’s Boners — er, Civilization’s Future
Reading Time: 9 minutes Today, the ever-hilarious Rod Dreher clutches his pearls over young women’s lack of interest in sex with him right-wing Christian men — and then offers the tribe a non-solution to this non-problem that just so happens to enrich him personally.
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No, ‘The Church’ Can’t Save Marriage, Mark Regnerus
Reading Time: 12 minutes Hi and welcome back! Recently, I ran across an article in Christianity Today that dovetails nicely with a recent topic we discussed about single women leaving Christianity. This new article concerned the dwindling number of married people in evangelicalism. Written by woo pseudo-social-scientist Mark Regnerus, the article sounds a warning bell to the tribe and calls upon […]
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Frank Keating: An(other) Evangelical Mascot Turned Out to Be A Total Failure
Reading Time: 8 minutes Today, I’ll show you what Frank Keating did, how his effort failed, and how nobody in his tribe of theocrats cared.
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Captain Cassidy and the Case of the Mother’s Day Geraniums
Reading Time: 6 minutes Whether those connections are bound to us by blood or by choice, they’re what matter most. Today, we celebrate Mother’s Day — and the real love that the day represents.
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Christian Leaders and the Non-Solutions They Love
Reading Time: 8 minutes There’s an insidious side to these streams of unreasonable demands. Today, I’ll show you what authoritarians’ non-solutions involve — and why they can’t change gears now.
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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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Humanists in Fight for Right to Perform Nonreligious Marriages
Reading Time: < 1 minute This is from the American Humanist Association: Attorneys at the American Humanist Association (AHA) just filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the legitimacy of secular wedding officiants. The case in question, now at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, centers on Texas’s decision to enforce a law that limits the authority to solemnize […]
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The Sacrifice of the Marriage Lamb: An Evangelical Horror Story
Reading Time: 10 minutes Today, we travel the horrifying route between what evangelical leaders teach about marriage, and what women discover about it once they’ve legally entangled themselves with an evangelical man.
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Respect: The Song And Dance That Makes Complementarians Content
Reading Time: 9 minutes Respect is such an important concept to understand when one discusses this ultra-authoritarian, misogynistic flavor of Christianity. Hop aboard! Today, we ride the Respect Train right past these control-freaky zealots.