Today, I found out I had a doppleganger: an unfamiliar Twitter account with my face and name, posting things I’d never said. A surreal and even terrifying moment, even for […]

Dear Emergents, Congratulations on conducting perhaps the most successful marketing campaign the American church has ever seen. Maybe it’s not the most original tactic, this  repackaging of the same old […]

Back to my coverage of HSLDA and the Christian homeschool movement today, thanks to their latest onslaught on the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The treaty, […]

Today, I’m taking a brief break from my coverage of the Christian homeschool movement in order to weigh in on another controversy plaguing the Christian blogosphere. Yesterday, Emergent theologian and […]

Michael Farris, chairman of the Homeschool Legal Defence Association (HSLDA) and president of ParentalRights.org, has established himself as a leading figure in the Christian homeschool movement.  His suspicion of the […]

Yesterday, the Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) released a public statement regarding blogger Libby Anne’s recent coverage of its defense of the Gravelles, a homeschool  family accused of horrific child […]

Typically I enjoy Rachel Held Evans’ blog, but her latest piece is not exactly an improvement on the abortion debate. It reiterates most of the same, extraordinarily tired rhetoric on […]

Since I published my original post on Jonathan Merritt’s poorly researched, badly argued response to Kathryn Joyce’s upcoming book, I’ve had the privilege of bullied online by Merritt himself and […]

(Update: Merritt just told me I should ‘clarify’ his links to the Southern Baptist Convention, since he has no professional link to the SBC. I never claimed that he did. […]

Update: This post is now featured at Homeschoolers Anonymous.  The Daily Beast’s coverage of Homeschoolers Anonymous has reignited the perennial debate over the homeschooling movement and parents’ rights. As a former […]