"Dick rises to the occasion!" Eric Dick with a couple of big saves to keep the #USL Championship Final tied in extra time

Taint misbehavin'

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

One Mark Driscoll appears to offer dozens of personalities. Currently he's testing out his Proud Boy No Homo Yee Haw brand, but his "Women be crazy, am I right guys?" brand is a holdover from 2007.

It me

The last conversation I had with Rachel Held Evans was about whether or not survivors were credible. She was saying she wasn't going to believe the ex-wife of someone she was working with and she blocked me. More here. stephaniedrury.substack.com/p/my-last-co...

Trust those who are seeking the truth and don't ever trust those who claim they have the truth.

Who did this

Who made this

I wonder if Lynn Cheney is buying some leather pants right now.

DIVA DOWN

For all the MAGAs claiming that they follow Christ, this is what it looks like. It's not waving it off. It's not pretending things are other than they are. It's holding the unjust accountable and speaking for those with no voice. In the words of Jesus, it is "Go and do likewise." It's love.

And the next Stuff Christian Culture Likes book club selection is

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

If they can create the shame inside you without you having a memory of where it came from, they’re better positioned to control you through your guilty conscience. This is how evangelicalism and Christian nationalism and so many more thought systems work. stephaniedrury.substack.com/p/im-not-lik...

Here's a tender treat from Mark Driscoll

No one is cheering that he got hurt, we are relieved that he isn't impervious to equalization after calling people slurs while wearing a cross.

My friend Phil Mickelson (that's really his name) added sound effects to the Trump-hole getting his glasses nicked lollllll

I wrote about my new approach to my chronic pain. It's so widespread and has different root causes, formative trauma being one. I'm trying different ways of dealing with it and am onto something (for the time being, at least) and hope it can help someone else. open.substack.com/pub/stephani...

You've heard of the wine aunt, now we have the Ch*rlie K*rk aunt. She is intent on convincing you that he was a wonderful man of God and you're just taking him out of context. open.substack.com/pub/stephani...

*Youth Pastor Voice* You know who ELSE liked working with wood?

Real.

Prove me wrong

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"Behind closed doors, control reached far beyond the pulpit. A text message from Mark Driscoll's daughter shows how deep the control really ran. Even her friendships weren't hers to choose." trinitycult.com #markdriscoll #trinitychurch #exvangelical #cult

Prove me wrong

You are cordially invited to our new church, No Homo. All are welcome but definitely not all will be affirmed, we'll lure you in with the idea of community before we shame you and threaten ostracization if you don't conform but we'd never say it out loud because then we couldn't manipulate you.

What happened to my college bestie who has an MFA in literature and now writes Apostle Paul fanfic? She married a youth pastor, that's what. open.substack.com/pub/stephani...

Happy Rosh Hashanah y'all.

I'm not sure about this branding but I'm not the billionaire business genius

"I don't support what happened to Charlie Kirk, but Charlie Kirk supported what happened to Charlie Kirk." - YouTube comment I just saw

Evangelicals are lionizing Charlie Kirk because evangelicalism teaches you to see everything in black-and-white and to change your instincts, or at least ignore them. Evangelicalism doesn't want you to hold complexity or they’d be cooked. open.substack.com/pub/stephani...

Meanwhile, "Christians" are active on Facebook.

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i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

“So what if he disagreed with you, he didn’t deserve to die” But he thought I did. This isn’t disagreement. It’s someone who was not only opposed to my existence but was called a good and faithful servant by the church for doing it. I don’t have to mourn that. And asking me to is violence too.