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You know what I’ve realized? If other Christians can speak with incontrovertible certainty, then so can I. I dare to speak with the same power and authority they believe they

After leaving evangelicalism, it’s easy to stay in a toxic marriage because we were taught to believe that a) they’re supposed to last for life, and b) holding on to

What is your favorite fact about the Bible that changed everything when you learned it?I’ll start: Mine will always be when I learned that the lovers in Song of Solomon

Sometimes I think about all the queer kids growing up in conservative churches AS WE SPEAK — the trans kids being taught what their gender presentation must be, the lesbians

No one:Literally no one: Evangelical Christian Men: I struggle with the sin of pornography — a stumbling block to my relationship with Christ since I was 12, but through Him

It’s *so* strange to put words to this, but I feel like purity culture made me so disembodied that I used to interpret my sexuality “intellectually.” As if my sexuality

Evangelicalism is a predatory indoctrination-pipeline that starts at birth (“dedication services,” church nursery) runs through childhood (“VBS,” “fine arts,” youth group, private school) and travels through adulthood (Bible col

What if “take every thought captive” doesn’t mean repressing sexual attraction or refraining from saying the word “fuck.” What if it means examining your deeply ingrained racial prejudices, questioning harmful

I don’t care about whether Evangelicals consider me Christian or not. Evangelicals point fingers at one other all day — calling *each other* unsaved, apostate, backslidden — all for disagreeing

Recently I’ve been thinking about that verse that goes “Go, eat your food with gladness, and drink your wine with a joyful heart, for God has already approved what you

I’m going re-invent Bible verses that have been historically weaponized by the white cisheteropatriarchy.Thread. I do not permit a sexist to teach or to assume authority over a woman; rather