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Why I Can’t Stand the Current Witch Trend
Why I Can’t Stand the Current Witch Trend
When I was maybe nine or ten, my parents took my family to a healing and revival church event. We watched as the healer called congregants…
Astrid Twist
Jul 20, 2017
It’s Time to Stop Associating Christianity with Conservatism.
It’s Time to Stop Associating Christianity with Conservatism.
Ever since the Moral Majority came to prominence in the 1970s, Christianity and Conservatism have been packaged together, as if…
Astrid Twist
Jun 29, 2017
Unlearning Christian Concepts: Selflessness
Unlearning Christian Concepts: Selflessness
For most of my life, I thought of selfishness as the root of all evils. It was the hardest sin to forgive and the most harmful to the world…
Astrid Twist
Jun 26, 2017
Gag Round Up: Christians on Women’s Modesty
Gag Round Up: Christians on Women’s Modesty
Too Much Skin In which a holier-than-thou author assumes that a mom is trying to make her daughter look like a prostitute because the…
Astrid Twist
Jun 22, 2017
Christians are Weird About Sex. In Lots of Ways.
Christians are Weird About Sex. In Lots of Ways.
If Christianity didn’t treat sex bizarrely at every turn, maybe many of us wouldn’t turn away. There are certain truths that lie inside of…
Astrid Twist
Jun 19, 2017
Finding my footing: Re-discovering God after leaving Christianity, Pt. 2
Finding my footing: Re-discovering God after leaving Christianity, Pt. 2
While writing Part 1 of this pair of blog posts, I focused on some of the themes in re-discovery that I feel the most positive about. I…
Astrid Twist
Jun 15, 2017
Finding my footing: Re-discovering God after leaving Christianity, Pt. 1
Finding my footing: Re-discovering God after leaving Christianity, Pt. 1
The thing about finding God after leaving Christianity is, there’s no one to tell you where to look. Without the Bible, there is no rule…
Astrid Twist
Jun 12, 2017
Gag Round-Up: Christians on Masturbation
Gag Round-Up: Christians on Masturbation
Masturbation: Is it Wrong? In which the author implies that a woman choosing to masturbate instead of have sex when she is angry at her…
Astrid Twist
Jun 8, 2017
Christians Don’t Talk about Masturbation, and it Sucks.
Christians Don’t Talk about Masturbation, and it Sucks.
Whenever my sister and I got The Talk, when I was 11 or 12, there was no mention of masturbation. Later, when I read the word in a…
Astrid Twist
Jun 5, 2017
Playlist to Flippant Heathens: 10 Songs for When You Feel Pretty Good about Being an Unbeliever
1. Fun. — One Foot
Astrid Twist
Jun 1, 2017
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