Only Pay Attention To the Part Above the Neckline: Pastor Warns the Ladies...
Pastor Paul Washer of HeartCry Missionary Society is determined to not let Muslim clerics have all the woman-oppressing fun. Claiming his own piece of the misogyny pie, he’s letting everyone know in a...
View ArticleAn Invitation to Women in Secularism 3
For a couple of years now, the Center For Inquiry has been putting together a conference to discuss issues of importance to non-religious women. It’s the only secular conference you’ll find where all...
View ArticleChristian Pastor: Women Shouldn’t Even Say ‘Amen’ in Church
It’s been a while since I’ve posted something by Pastor Steven Anderson, but the preacher just gave one of those sermons that you don’t really believe anyone would deliver until you hear it. Not only...
View ArticleFundamentalist Christian Pastor on Women’s Roles: ‘No, My Wife Does Not Have...
Suppose you’re doing an interview and the host asked you these questions: Would you be horrified if your wife told you she wanted to begin a career as a teacher? Do you expect sex from your wife...
View ArticleAfter Husband Gets Distracted by Attractive Woman at Church, Wife Blames Her...
Christian writer Dannah Gresh has identified a major problem with church: It turns out church is just too damn dangerous. You see, some women dress provocatively… and some husbands just can’t deal with...
View ArticleHigh School Student’s Art Piece Called “Rape Culture” Rejected from...
Gracie Holtzclaw, a South Carolina high school student, was given a spot in the Greenville County Schools Art Exhibition, but that opportunity was revoked when district officials said her piece and its...
View ArticleCatholic Women Get Excommunicated After Ordination Attempt (but Pedophile...
A band of women have made the news recently for being ordained… and for being kicked out of the Catholic Church in the bargain. While many Christian denominations wouldn’t bat an eye at women in...
View ArticleI Guess This Christian Apologist Learns Nothing from Women
Frank Turek, a Christian apologist who has written plenty of easily-debunkable books about why the Bible is *totally* true, just released his personal list of the “Top 20 Christian Apologists” — the...
View ArticleThe Vatican Finally Admits That Most Catholics Ignore Church Teaching on...
Call it the Catholic Church’s dirty little secret. Well, their other dirty little secret. Actually, at this point it’s kind of an open secret. Most people with even a passing interest in matters of...
View ArticleYou Won’t Believe the Advice This Christian Minister Gave to Married Women on...
Tony Rapu, a Christian minister from Nigeria, is the kind of guy who gives sermons on Twitter with a series of short messages grouped together with a hashtag. Last week, he spoke about married men with...
View ArticleBreaking Free from the Church
In 2010, Pastor David Hayward (a.k.a. nakedpastor) left the ministry after 30 years. He didn’t become an atheist, but he was tired of so much of what Christianity had become and his personal theology...
View ArticleFundamentalist Christian Pastor Bashes “We Can Do It” Mentality Among Women...
Here are the rules for a new game I recently invented: Whenever Pastor Steven Anderson releases a video, I click on a random part of it and listen for a minute. If I hear him say something crazy, I...
View ArticleFeminism Remains Controversial At Wheaton College, but These Women Are Trying...
A group at Wheaton College, that conservative Christian bastion that has produced so very many missionaries (including the famous Jim and Elisabeth Elliot), is giving feminism a voice on campus,...
View ArticleSome Evangelical Christian Women Are Rethinking the Idea of Virginity Until...
I love that this is getting talked about. Evangelical purity culture is so ridden with shame and unhealthy, irrational obsession over virginity (hey guys! scientifically speaking, it doesn’t even...
View ArticleChristian St. Louis “Killer” Cop Suspended For YouTube Diatribe Against...
Fun to watch, if you like unhinged diatribes from Jesus-loving cops:The spittle-spewing gentleman is Dan Page of the St. Louis County Police Department, addressing a gathering of Oath Keepers – and...
View ArticleWomen’s Rights Activists Bleed and Defecate on ISIS Flag to (Apparently)...
[Note: All links in this post should be considered Not Safe For Work!]Egyptian women’s rights activist Aliaa Elmahdy isn’t afraid of a little controversy, to put it mildly. For a few years, she’s been...
View ArticleAnti-Abortion Advocates Will Erect Memorials and Hold Services for Aborted...
If you haven’t already marked your calendar, you’re going to want to get right on it, because tomorrow is “National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children,” at least according to anti-abortion...
View ArticleMassachusetts Mega-church Votes to Let Women Serve as Elders
The Christian community is still shockingly slow to accept women among their ranks of leadership, which is particularly egregious since one of the earliest Christian bishops was a woman (her name was...
View ArticleAre Men More Likely to Be Secular Than Women?
This is a guest post written by Phil Zuckerman. Zuckerman is a professor of sociology and secular studies at Pitzer College. His latest book, Living the Secular Life, will be published this...
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