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My Young-Earth Creationist Beat Up Your Old-Earth Evolutionist (Things Some Christians Like to Say)
Yesterday after school my young daughter burst into the kitchen and announced, with all the alarm of a good little evangelical, “Mom! My...
Oct 28, 20144 min read


The Proper Way to “Have a Good Cry”
Last night I went to our church’s midweek meeting where I teach the kids while the adults hold a Bible study. I love this opportunity to...
Sep 11, 20142 min read


A Jehovah’s Witness Came to My Door Today
She was short and stout, and her face showed her years. Hair was tied in a scarf, and the wind blew her skirt around shoes made for those...
Oct 31, 20132 min read


"God is Good" and Other Annoying Things Church People Like to Say
Have you ever noticed that when church people say, “God is good!” it’s often in the context of God doing something good for them? I got...
Jul 22, 20122 min read


My Friends the Pagans
“I want to start a group,” I told my friend one day. “A group for people who want to talk about God or gods, and spiritual-not-religious...
Jun 21, 20123 min read


The Great Egg-Balancing Hoax (When People Believe What They Want to Believe)
Perhaps you’ve done it—balanced an egg on its wide end sometime during the vernal or autumnal equinox. A friend of mine introduced this...
Mar 23, 20112 min read
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