My Time as a Manic Pixie Dream Girl.
A few days ago I saw this post written by a man who woke up to his sexism. It touched me, and I want to talk a little about it and make my own confession. This revelation may shock you, Read more
A few days ago I saw this post written by a man who woke up to his sexism. It touched me, and I want to talk a little about it and make my own confession. This revelation may shock you, Read more
A while ago I wrote a post called “The Daughters of Men” in which I cried aloud in the wilderness about a pastor who is deliberately teaching his daughters things that will potentially harm them significantly in their future lives Read more
I was married to a preacher, I think I mentioned before, with Biff sliding very quickly into a position as a youth pastor. The trend of using youth pastors to minister exclusively to high school kids began when I was Read more
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.
C’mon, admit it: that got y’all’s attention. But it’s a true story, and I’m about to tell you how my mother, of all people, managed the trick. I mentioned before that my Mom was raised uber-Catholic, as in I have Read more
I’m still working on my fun post-DragonCon post but had to drop this in here. It’s just too funny, infuriating, sad, and weird not to mention. Once upon a time, there was a Christian couple who opened a cake shop Read more
It’s hard to explain exactly what Martian logic is, so I’m going to use an example and hope the meaning conveys. In the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes, young Calvin one day decides to back the family car out of Read more
Have you seen this in the news lately? A bunch of conservative Christians have decided that the three biggest threats to America are these: Communism, Islam, and emergent Christianity. If you just went “wait, what?” then you’re not toxic enough. Read more
You know, every so often right when I think that toxic Christians are starting to catch on to how obvious it is to outsiders that they want to control all the rest of us, they top themselves with a new Read more
Fred Phelps thinks he’s one. So does Brother Jed, the Pope, Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, and Eddie Long. So did Biff. So did I. So does every Christian. If you just said “I’ll take ‘TRUE CHRISTIAN’ for $200,” you already Read more