Growing Up Goddy

Selling the Birthright

The Christian Right sold its moral birthright for the pottage of political power, returning for a new bowl each election. The bill is due.

For me the breaking point came when I realized compassion for the poor had been sacrificed for party orthodoxy, empathy…

A LIFE IN VERSES

Read your Bible, kids

Psalm 139:13, English Standard Version

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother’s womb.

One sticky evening when your Mom and Dad were getting frisky, God got out his…

To My Former Self

I know how scared you are of what you might become.

That Time I Co-Hosted the 700 Club

There is no punch line.

What the Hell Is Wrong with Pat Robertson?

A trip down memory lane with fundamentalism’s crazy uncle

A World Without Consent

Rape culture, and the terrifying burden of agency 

Taking It All Very Seriously

You can take the boy out of fundamentalism

Please, Don’t Be Female

The desperate, terrified obsession with female flesh