With Strange Fire

Category: Evangelical Christians

  • Do Mothers “Use” Baby Rooms to Avoid Sermons?

    Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on February 7, 2018 This morning I was over at Tim Bayly’s Out of Our Minds War Horn archives looking for one of his many focused on hyper masculinity pieces because I’d found a hyper masculinity graphic that is too good not to…

  • No Room in America for Non-Whites?

    Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on June 25, 2018 I have been debating with myself all week as to if I should say anything, or put up a post about the horrible situation playing out on the southern border of the USA. That the Trump administration was seizing…

  • Evangelicals, Roseanne Barr and Good Christian Martyrbating!

    Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer and originally published at No Longer Quivering Patheos on June 1, 2018 I guess you’ve heard by now of this week’s newest societal outrage – the racist and cruel words by comedienne and actress Roseanne Barr? Who hasn’t? For those that didn’t it was a mean tweet issued by Ms. Barr…

  • The Woke Mob!

    My first encounter with a large iguana in Costa Rica. Why am I showing this? It speaks to what we are addressing here, encountering what is not our normal circle of friends and the ways it can go horribly wrong. Just like even then I know better than to mess with an iguana because of…

  • Inhospitable

    Yesterday was a graphic example to me how the “radical submission” and “always smile, never complain” of soft or hard complementarianism just does not work on so many levels. We’ve tried it, and were both miserable for those years. It darn near ruined our marriage. Good thing too, because I’m not sure how I would…

  • About “That” Picture

    Sadly I am slightly defending Katie Joy Paulson. Paulson is a YouTuber and former Patheos blogger who goes by the moniker “Without a Crystal Ball.” She tends to cover reality television in her videos. One of my big objections to Ms. Paulson’s business model is not the content. It’s the methods she uses to share…