Rachel Held Evans has spent an entire year following the Bible’s strict rules for women. While menstruating she camped out in a tent in her back yard, never touched her husband, and carried around a pillow so as not to sit on chairs outside her home. She grew her hair out all year and was ...
I can’t write much this week, because I’ve got a few places to go today. You see, according to a collection of the usual wild-eyed former estate agents, prison guards and manure spreaders all turned evangelical preachers (and all of them Americans, naturally), if you add up all the dates in the Bible, making a ...
While some people believe the Bible is the word of God, we all agree that the translations are not. The next edition of the New American Bible will be making some changes — and removing some words all together. “Booty” has been changed to “spoils of war,” effectively conjuring up ill-gotten gold as opposed to ...
Despite attempts from Alanis Morisette to convince us of the contrary, most people think of God as male. He is often depicted as an elderly man in the sky with a long white beard and twinkling/vengeful eyes (depending on your denomination). The Scottish Episcopal Church has authorized the removal of all references to the divine ...
I may not agree with what you say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it. A preacher has been arrested for publicly declaring his belief that homosexuality is a sin. He has been charged under the UK’s Public Order Act, which forbids using abusive or insulting language. At what point ...
Usually getting fired is a bad thing. But, somehow, this woman is happy about it. Can you imagine...
My attention was drawn this week to an article on the resurgence of the market for men’s underwear. It...
Meh, the night bus. It isn’t ideal, but with the price of trains nowadays and the hellish standing-up-from-Edinburgh-to-Manchester situation...
Ladies, learn to know the signs of ovulation! So many women have no idea and so many headaches and...
Remember that time when I was with my friends and I saw you playing pool with your friends and...
Dear Madame X, My girl is hot but every single time we get into a fight she is all...
My first encounter with Kitchen, Banana Yoshimoto’s 1988 novel (translated into English in 1993 by Megan Backus) was in...
A slut is a person of any gender who has the courage to lead life according to the radical...
