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September 2012

September 09, 2012
I'm often asked what I believe now, and I often answer that I'm blissfully uncommitted....
September 06, 2012
I recently joined Pinterest. I resisted for a little while, like I always do, but...

August 2012

August 30, 2012
Credit isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'm not talking about your credit score...
August 22, 2012
When I was growing up, I believed our church to be mostly apolitical. This was...
August 21, 2012
You may have noticed that the menu section now includes a link to my blogroll....
August 17, 2012
Following up Paradise Recovered as the second recent cinematic portrayal of a fundamentalist girl's journey...
August 16, 2012
Some of you may remember this post, in which I described the frustration of discovering...
August 10, 2012
So, I keep seeing this seriously problematic image circulating on facebook. It's an ugly beige...
August 08, 2012
A comment on Libby Anne's blog recently got me thinking about love, and what it...
August 07, 2012
If you've been following my blog for a while, you'll recognize William Branham as the...
August 06, 2012
Welcome to another round of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project! This time, our writers...
August 03, 2012
This morning, one of the first things I saw on my facebook feed was an...
August 01, 2012
Chick-fil-A sent ripples through my church in the early noughties; I still have no real...

July 2012

July 30, 2012
Note: If the headline didn't already clue you in, this is controversial subject matter. If you...
July 27, 2012
I blame Libby Anne for sharing this link and making me write despite my sore wrist!...
July 26, 2012
Hey everybody. I want to apologize first for the unexplained silence on my blog for...
July 24, 2012
Courtney at From Austin to A&M has an excellent article about food stamps that helps...
July 23, 2012
This concludes the answers of first group of participants in the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project....
July 22, 2012
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 21, 2012
Gaslighting is a term derived from the 1944 film Gaslight. Here's an excerpt from the...
July 21, 2012
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 21, 2012
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 20, 2012
Femina has been lighting up like a Christmas tree since The Gospel Coalition blog post that...
July 20, 2012
Hang tight, everybody! We're going to Patheos! (The new URL will be , but you'll...
July 19, 2012
Anybody remember these? A couple of people apparently found my blog using the following google...
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 19, 2012
A little while ago, Libby Anne at Love, Joy, Feminism posted a link to an article...
July 18, 2012
My mother is stubborn. My father jokes that it's the Polish in her (and me)...
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