On Mother’s Day, I showed you a major evangelical news site that somehow missed an important story about the single moms in their churches who didn’t find motherhood through adoption. Instead, these women got their kids through unapproved sex or divorce, neither of which hardline evangelicals like much. Evangelical single moms really test evangelicals’ own marketing hype to the limits — and accidentally reveal exactly who evangelicals, as a group, truly are. Today, let me show you how evangelicals treat single moms — and why, and what their behavior says about them as a group.
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How Evangelical Men Try (And Fail) to Pick Perfect Wives
We’ve been talking lately about right-wing Christians’ conceptualization of marriage. Uniformly, their marriage rules don’t work well, and their expectations of mates skyrockets well above what they can reasonably ask of anybody. But there’s one aspect to the evangelical dating game in particular that stands as a disaster amid everything else they do around marriage. Today, let me show you how evangelical leaders advise the men in their group to choose wives — and then we’ll check out who they actually pick.
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The Day A.J. Kiesling Noticed Christian Men’s Fear of Divorce
‘Perfect love casts out fear,’ wrote someone long ago. Going by that standard, today’s evangelical men clearly do not feel perfect love for the women of their tribe. I say that because hooboy, they are scared spitless of divorce.
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The Great Breakup
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‘Christian Love’ Flows As Jen Hatmaker Divorces
Hi and welcome back! I know nobody’s surprised when we talk about evangelical hypocrisy. They’re soaking in it! However, today’s story might represent one of the more egregious recent examples of that trope. Jen Hatmaker, a popular Christian speaker/author, recently announced her impending divorce. As expected, most people responded with compassion. But one group has decided to […]
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Frank Keating: An(other) Evangelical Mascot Turned Out to Be A Total Failure
Today, I’ll show you what Frank Keating did, how his effort failed, and how nobody in his tribe of theocrats cared.
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Evangelical Gatekeeping (Makes Their Numbers Look Prettier)
Hi and welcome back! As I look back at the carnage of our recent book review of The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, I’m struck by something its author, Ronald J. Sider, does to give himself a tiny little ray of hope for the future. It’s something we’ve seen evangelicals do constantly, too: gatekeeping exactly who […]
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Measuring Evangelical Hypocrisy in ‘The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience’
Yesterday, I showed you an overview of a classic evangelical book from 2005: The Scandal of the Evangelical Conscience, by Ronald J. Sider. Its author sought to persuade evangelicals to start pretending they took Jesus’ commands more seriously — because they commit hypocrisy to an extent and to a degree that suggests that they believe someone’ll set them on fire forever after they die if they don’t. Today, I’ll show you some of Sider’s findings that condemn evangelicals, and his response to it all in the end.
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Married Evangelicals Are Not Okay: Pandemic Edition
People don’t know the grim reality of evangelicals’ marriages, much less why this whole pandemic situation is tearing apart the already-shaky foundation of those marriages. So today, let me show you why evangelical marriages face challenges right out of the gate — and why lately, their facade is crashing right down to the ground.
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Why Complementarians Hate No-Fault Divorce
Complementarianism is a sexist ideology held by mostly right-wing Christian culture warriors. One major plank of that ideology involves a vicious hatred of no-fault divorce. Today, I’ll show you what that plank looks like and why complementarians hold to it so tightly. Then, I’ll show you why, in their eyes at least, they really should hate no-fault-divorce.