This story from last month’s Details magazine broke my heart. Deliverance: The True Story of a Gay Exorcism by MATT MCALLESTER The prophet had come up from Georgia. She stood at the front of the Holy Ghost Temple Church and called for parishioners to come forward. On this Sunday in February, roughly 100 worshippers filled…

So manipulative… So full of fear… So annoying… But guilt, fear, and manipulation work well inside church… And the thing is… even with all that passion… all that yelling and screaming… all of that self-proclaiming certainty… …doesn’t make any of what he’s saying any more true. In the end, he still doesn’t know what happens…

The California gurl tells Rolling Stone… “I wasn’t able to say I was lucky because my mother would rather us say that we were blessed, and she also didn’t like that lucky sounded like Lucifer… I wasn’t allowed to eat Lucky Charms, but I think that was the sugar. I think my mom lied to…

Way to go, Kayli! Looks like you’re the 3rd best Bible bringer in your church! Doesn’t it feel awesome to be so much better than all but two of the other kids in your Sunday school class? And check out that trophy! That’s awesome. Of course, the best part is knowing that Jesus loves you…

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