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The author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood is talking about the deification of marriage in the evangelical church and I had to stop listening to the book for a bit to talk to y’all. It started with Martin Luther who married a nun named Katherina. When he was alive, their home was the place…

I’ve got about three hours left of the audio of The Making of Biblical Womanhood by Beth Allison Barr and boy is it excellent. The author is a medievalist and a pastor’s wife. Her husband got fired from his preaching job when they as a couple pushed against the rules in the Southern Baptist Church…

Good morning y’all. We’re going to talk the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC). This is my childhood denomination and while I deeply loved my childhood church and the people in it, the denomination itself has a fairly problematic history and right now, a problematic present. Let’s start by talking about what makes a Baptist a Baptist.…

Y’all didn’t think that I was going to let this day pass without talking about American exceptionalism and the church, did you? Yeah, I couldn’t do it. It is too important a topic to talk about in these trying times.  Let’s start with a basic definition. I recognize that I’m a weirdo who spends time…

Y’all, I am going to talk to you about homeschooling. This is a topic with which I have no experience, but many of my friends do have experience with this and I am hoping that they will be willing to talk some about their personal experience below. Some caveats. I do not hate all homeschooling.…

So you know that I listen to and watch a lot of true crime content. I’ve made a bit of an analysis of the subject and I’ve noticed a few things while doing that analysis about why murderers get caught. 1.  You can never ever talk about it to anyone. Not before the crime. Not…

Good morning y’all. Let’s talk about purity culture. All the trigger warnings. Read at your own peril. First of all, it is complete bullshit and if you are teaching it to your teenager or allowing it to be taught to your teenager, I need you to stop now. I especially need you to stop if…

It is time for a session where Vikki translates Republican speak and tells you what they are getting wrong if they are Christian and living in the United States. Today’s topic is Personal Responsibility. I am pausing to gnash my teeth and scream into the void.  Feel free to do the same.  We can all…

Random Thoughts I want to talk about the white southern evangelical and the Republican party. It is going to be a long read, but if you can reach the end, I think we’ll have something to discuss. I’ve worked on this for the last couple of days and in places, it is a little ranty.…

This is technically my part 2 on queerness in Christianity.  I didn’t say quite everything yesterday so I thought that I would put it here. Christianity for queer people is a total mind fuck. The attitude around queerness can be a bit of a mind fuck for people who aren’t queer too. My biggest example…