childhood

Cowboy for Christ
Gender-bending love at Bible camp. From Believer, Beware, now available as an e-book!

Black Preacher at the Family Reunion
“Do it or I’ll cut your throat,” Kevin said. You thought about it, yelling the word and then running and it would all really just be a game.

Paper Hearts
I resent that it is necessary to clarify my religious beliefs before I will be invited for coffee.

Truth-Telling in Vulgaria
Questions for Kathryn Joyce, who bursts the international Christian adoption bubble in her new book, The Child Catchers.

Religion: ___
Once July 15 passes, it’s all back-to-school displays in the megastores and reenrollment paperwork/digital forms/paying of tuition tout de suite. It still makes my stomach hurt. A friend just passed along this list from her son’s back-to-school forms. If you’re wondering what the religion choices might be at an “independent” “East Coast” stone-walled place of…