Doug Wilson Continues Attention-Seeking Rants Against Rachel Held Evans,...
I blame Libby Anne for sharing this link and making me write despite my sore wrist! Doug Wilson just can’t shut up about Rachel Held Evans, which is curious for two reasons: she’s already stopped...
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“I Don’t Hate Gay People, They Just Shouldn’t Get Married”: Chick-fil-A’s...
The penguin wedding scene from Parks and Recreation. Via TV Fanatic. Chick-fil-A sent ripples through my church in the early noughties; I still have no real idea why. Perhaps they had just opened more...
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Ann Romney’s Gendered Martyrdom: “Women and Children First”?
Ann Romney cooking – you know, like she has to. Because she’s a lady. Credit isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I’m not talking about your credit score or the plastic in your wallet. I’m talking about...
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Checking Out of Privilege: Timothy Kurek’s “The Cross in the Closet” and What...
What do John Howard Griffin, Barbara Ehrenreich, Timothy Kurek and Rachel Held Evans have in common? What do they have in common with Natalie Reed and “Thomas,” an anonymous subject of Kristin...
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Evangelical Christian Marriage: Hawking the Product
In evangelical Christian culture, marriage is a commodity. Marriage books are sold like gardening manuals or cheat sheets for the SATs. The sales pitch for marriage in Christian culture is more intense...
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Sexuality Project: Sex Education and the Body, Q. 2
The following is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. Read the previous installment here. You are also invited to join the project. Young Lindsay Lohan making a face....
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I Voted! (Suck it, Mr. Branham.)
I voted. Deal with it. Growing up fundamentalist, I was reminded on a near monthly basis that I shouldn’t be allowed to vote. It was inescapable. Central to the Message of the Hour theology was a set...
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You can’t stop the reign of guns and patriarchy without talking about religion
A gun, a Bible, and the Declaration of Independence: a poisonous American cocktail. Americans have come to expect certain conversations after public shooting incidents. It’s a stain on our national...
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Sexism, Judgment Day and Forgetting as a Survival Skill
William Blake, Day of Judgment.Sometimes, my mind goes through a litany of abuse that I can’t stop. From my father’s intimidation to the men in trucks who ran me off the road making obscene gestures...
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The Fistfight Fallacy: rape culture’s ahistorical premise
Stick figure of a caveman, from wikimedia commons. Trigger warning: I’m fighting back against a rape apologist’s claim, and some of this material may be triggering. Inevitably, when you write about...
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