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The Mark of the Beast
Evangelicals in a school district in Louisiana are objecting to a palm scanner that kids could use to pay for their lunches, thus eliminating the need for lunch money. Why? Because it sounds too...
View ArticleThe UN, the Antichrist, and a Global Takeover
Fred Clark of The Slactivist recently put up a post about how evangelicals’ beliefs about the end times are influencing public policy, especially the belief that the UN is just a placeholder for the...
View Article“This is the most important election of all time!” (again)
You’ve probably heard by now that if Obama wins a second term we will become a socialist nation, gun ownership will be made illegal, our country will be unrecognizable by the end of his term, and on...
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Fear and the Fundamentalist Child
Today is Halloween. Sally is giddy with excitement. I’m taking her trick-or-treating this evening, and she’s been asking every day for a month now if it is “Halloween Day.” Bobby will be going too, his...
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The Purity Culture and Trust
I’m afraid I rather made my husband Sean miserable during our engagement and early marriage. For one thing, I found out that he had had sex with a previous girlfriend, and when he wasn’t regretful for...
View ArticleGrowing Up Evangelical at the End of the World
“Dad, when do you think the rapture will happen?” “Oh, probably in the next five or ten years.” I was eleven. Eleven. And I trusted my dad. I respected him, a lot. He was the smartest person I knew –...
View ArticleI Am Not a Child
Over Thanksgiving we got together with some relatives on Sean’s side of the family. One of his cousins, whom I will call Hillary, is about ten years older than Sean and I, and watching her interact...
View ArticleWhat’s More Terrifying than Left Behind?
I remember the movie very clearly. We watched it some church event or other, which I can’t remember. But the movie—the movie I remember.It began when an angel appeared to a woman and told her the date...
View Article“Daddy, Is the Devil Real?” A Response
A few weeks ago, a reader sent me a post from a blog on the progressive Christian channel and asked for my opinion. The post is called Daddy, is the Devil Real? The author, Morgan Guyton, explains that...
View ArticleDemons and the Consequences of Feeding Children’s Fears
So, demons. I’ve written on this topic before, but it’s been a while, and when I last wrote on this topic my children were too small to be scared of the dark. When I was a girl, I was taught that...
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