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It's been several months since I posted anything, and some readers have asked me about...

Trigger warning: I'm fighting back against a rape apologist's claim, and some of this material...

Sometimes, my mind goes through a litany of abuse that I can't stop. From my...

I want to recommend this recent post on A Sober Second Look: A Sober Second...

Occasionally, I get asked whether or not I ever actually left my old fundamentalist church....

I have been teaching as part of my graduate school career for more than a...

I grew up on anti-feminist propaganda. I heard that they were ball-busting man-haters before I...

I've spent the past few years very plugged in to social justice media. When I...

Trigger warning: The linked article contains a graphic description of gang rape. In fact, the...

*Trigger warning: Personal talk about fasting with a (mostly controlled) eating disorder to follow. Please...

2012-13 is the Winter of the Pants. Will you join the party? On December 16,...

I grew up wearing "holiness." I'll wait for a moment so you can finish making jokes....

A moment of clarification: If you read my previous post and thought I was issuing...

Americans have come to expect certain conversations after public shooting incidents. It's a stain on...

Ever since I was a little girl, I've found engagement rings totally perplexing. The part...

A question occurred to me as I proofread my last post about how my father's...

This morning, a deranged attacker opened fire in a Connecticut school, killing tens of children...

Growing up fundamentalist, I was reminded on a near monthly basis that I shouldn't be...

"You'll save him. You always do," says Amelia Pond to the Doctor. "Not always," he...

The following is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. Read the previous...

I've been asked to consider this topic again, as Meghan has decided to make it...

The Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project has (finally) returned! Last time, we met Calulu, Jenn, Meggie, Parker,...

This just in from the Department of Bizarre Feats of Religious Jackassery: Tim Tebow Trademarks...

In the attempt to track down sales figures for the evangelical Christian marriage book market,...

"Is your husband home?" I wasn't prepared to answer that question. If my neighbors' wide,...

In evangelical Christian culture, marriage is a commodity. Marriage books are sold like gardening manuals...

Justin Lee, executive director of the Gay Christian Network, has just written an excellent post...

What do John Howard Griffin, Barbara Ehrenreich, Timothy Kurek and Rachel Held Evans have in...

I have been asked to write a response to S.E. Smith at Tiger Beatdown after...

Ever since Todd Akin's remarks about women's bodies' magical powers to repel the sperm of...