This year at the Southern Baptist Annual Meeting (nicknamed SBC26 by the flocks), the faithful attendees got quite an interesting eyeful along the road: A billboard offering Bible verses that support women’s ordination to church leadership positions over both men and other women. Nothing is funnier than Christians dueling about Read more
For a long time, I’ve been watching the shakeups going on in the world of AAA video games. It’s impossible not to draw some parallels with Christianity’s decline in America! But a few days ago, a game developer (or “dev”) offered advice that stopped me in my tracks. It was Read more
On April 12, The New York Times ran an interesting opinion post about atheism. In it, Christian scholar David Hart tells interviewer Peter Wehner that he could never, ever be an atheist because he thinks atheism can’t ‘answer’ philosophical arguments against it. It’s an interesting interview for a number of Read more
Just before Easter and in a shocking event that many Christians are hailing as a modern miracle on par with the Great Flood, all 75M American ‘Nones’ (those who are “none of the above” regarding religion) suddenly converted en masse to one particular denomination of Christianity, Evangelical Methodist Church. Before Read more
A long time ago, I noticed right-wing Christians’ love for what I called ‘zingers‘: insulting retorts that they think totally own their enemies. Their zingers may mystify their targets, and definitely don’t accomplish what right-wing Christians think they should, but they just can’t stop deploying them. Today, let’s explore this Read more
In the past few weeks, I’ve had a lot of time to think about this entire Shawn Bolz hypocrisy and harassment scandal. For years, I’ve known that dysfunctional authoritarian religious groups sprout way more hypocrisy than more functional groups can manage. I’ve also known that they tend to be way Read more
As the new year begins, it’s time to look at one of the most amazing and spectacularly daffy practices within evangelicalism: Prophecy. It’s one of those dealbreakers within Christianity. It shows there’s nothing supernatural or divine at the religion’s heart. But evangelicals in particular can’t help themselves. They love prophecy, Read more
Last time we met up, we met Courtney Gamble, a young evangelical princess who discovered that her dream husband was actually a beast in disguise. Today, let’s meet Ashley—whose husband-hunt has taken a very different path. Like Courtney’s, Ashley’s story is cobbled together from a multitude of women whose paths Read more
Today, let me show you a story about evangelical marriage. It’s the combination of many, many women’s stories. And it is a horror story about misplaced trust, monsters in disguise, and small towns hiding way too many secrets. (This post and its audio ‘cast first went live on Patreon on Read more
For years after my deconversion, I found myself at loose ends about how to view the universe and my place within it. Christianity had given me a simple cosmology, but Christianity’s claims had turned out to be false. After deconverting, I wanted to build my worldview on claims that were Read more