When conservative Christians say they are defending the “sanctity of life” what they really mean is they are defending the sovereignty of God alone in every uterus. As liberals and progressives find ourselves staring down the barrel of the gun that is Trumpcare, our secular thought leaders appear helplessly flummoxed by white evangelical and Catholic […]
The scarlet A on my chest is for the girl I was at 25—and for every other person who has felt ashamed of their desires. A few weeks ago, I tattooed a scarlet A onto my chest, a reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. The novel’s protagonist, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a red A […]
Thomas Aquinas once said that “to one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.” I read once that revealing an atheist or agnostic religious affiliation is a kind of coming out of the closet. On one rainy Sunday afternoon, having reached the age when children start to […]
Who wants to convert to a religion full of bitter, judgmental people on the chance they avoid a hell they’re not even sure exists? That isn’t faith. That’s fear. I was raised in a traditional Christian home. My parents’ interpretation of Scripture was the one they expected me to believe without question. In all other things (politics, education, career), […]
I’m not using religion to guide my son’s morals. He is not being raised to believe that God is keeping track of his behavior, nor are we relying on the promise or threat of heaven and hell, respectively, to keep him in line. Neuroscientist David Eagleman says this about religion: Our ignorance of the cosmos is too vast […]
A version of this originally appeared on The Huffington Post. Republished here with permission. Don’t believe them when they teach you in hundreds of ways that you are inherently more sinful, corrupt, less worthy, and in need of constant male guidance. Reject them. Dear Girls, You are powerful beyond words, because you threaten to unravel the control […]
