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April 2013
April 25, 2013
Trigger warning: I'm fighting back against a rape apologist's claim, and some of this material...
April 20, 2013
Sometimes, my mind goes through a litany of abuse that I can't stop. From my...
December 2012
December 20, 2012
Americans have come to expect certain conversations after public shooting incidents. It's a stain on...
November 2012
November 06, 2012
Growing up fundamentalist, I was reminded on a near monthly basis that I shouldn't be...
October 2012
October 24, 2012
The following is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. Read the previous...
October 17, 2012
In evangelical Christian culture, marriage is a commodity. Marriage books are sold like gardening manuals...
October 15, 2012
What do John Howard Griffin, Barbara Ehrenreich, Timothy Kurek and Rachel Held Evans have in...
August 2012
August 30, 2012
Credit isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'm not talking about your credit score...
August 01, 2012
Chick-fil-A sent ripples through my church in the early noughties; I still have no real...
July 2012
July 27, 2012
I blame Libby Anne for sharing this link and making me write despite my sore wrist!...
July 21, 2012
Gaslighting is a term derived from the 1944 film Gaslight. Here's an excerpt from the...
July 21, 2012
Gospel Coalition’s Jared C. Wilson issues an apology for Doug Wilson post; Rachel Held Evans accepts
Breaking: Whether or not the ripples of the Doug Wilson drama have truly subsided yet,...
July 20, 2012
Fred Clark recently posted one of the most powerful endorsements of anger at injustice I...
July 19, 2012
Them's Fightin' Words and Daddy Issues are the responses of Bekah and Rachel (Lizzie), daughters of Doug...
July 19, 2012
Trigger warning for rape and sexual abuse. Jared Wilson unwittingly set off a flare in...
July 08, 2012
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 06, 2012
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 06, 2012
Leaders of the Christian Patriarchy Movement and their disciples (minor pastors who covet their attention)...
July 05, 2012
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
June 2012
June 15, 2012
The Guardian recently published an article by Nadiya Takolia titled "The hijab has liberated me from...
June 14, 2012
Trigger warning: The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people...
June 10, 2012
Rachel Held Evans has just followed up the discussion linked in my last post with the literary...
June 09, 2012
Complementarianism is a lie. Yeah. It's fake. It doesn't exist. What does exist is patriarchy in...
May 2012
May 25, 2012
A North Carolina pastor's anti-gay tirade has gone viral on youtube. He proposes sending all...
May 20, 2012
(Note: This is cross-posted from Love, Joy, Feminism. The original is here.) By Libby Anne...
April 2012
April 11, 2012
Like most fundamentalist churches, mine taught that wives were commanded by God to give their...
April 10, 2012
My last two posts, and indeed all my thinking on the subject has led me...
April 05, 2012
I have already written about the ways that growing up in fundamentalist-evangelical culture made me...
April 04, 2012
Libby Anne has begun a series on Emotional Incest at Love, Joy, Feminism. In her...
March 2012
March 29, 2012
It has been noted that my writing comes from experience and is secular in nature....
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