Reading Time: 19 minutes Continuing the long tradition of evangelical urban legends and worn-out tropes in movies*, I’m in Love With a Church Girl offers up a rehashed and cliché-riddled bit of schlock that is “based on a true story,” which means it bears only the faintest hint of a trace of the real story. This movie looks at the topic of mixed-faith relationships–and it does so in quite possibly the most offensive, misogynistic, and insulting ways possible.
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The Unequally Yoked Club: Turnabout Was Fair Play.
Reading Time: 9 minutes Some time after breaking up with Biff, I ended up in a teeny tiny town in Kansas, where I met and fell head-over-heels in love with a dreamy-eyed young man who taught me what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a spiritual deception.
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The Unequally Yoked Club: When Promises Must Be Broken.
Reading Time: 9 minutes Remember what I mentioned last time about promises? We’re going to talk about that a little more today. There’s something about promises that I need to show you.
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The Unequally Yoked Club: You Didn’t Sign Up For This.
Reading Time: 13 minutes Before we can really get into the meat of this post, I need to say a few words first about the fundamentalist view of promises, because I don’t think most people outside that mindset will understand fully until this stuff’s on the table. I’ve talked before about the things that drew me to fundamentalism, namely […]
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What is a Toxic Christian?
Reading Time: 7 minutes Sometimes I use the term “toxic Christian” to describe particular people, and today I want to talk about what that term means and why I use it.
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Redefining Words: Love
Reading Time: 13 minutes Christianity’s been quietly redefining the word “love” to the point where I can’t really be sure that any Christian I talk to who uses that word is actually using it in a way that I would ever recognize.