Mega Holy

Christian women are flooding social media with “Jesus glow-up” videos, claiming their newfound faith has made them physically more attractive. The trend is disturbing—and it reveals how evangelical culture continues to reduce women’s spiritual worth to their appearance (because apparently, Jesus is running some kind of divine makeover show). These TikTok and Instagram posts follo...

Every year, thousands of Christian women attend marriage conferences where they’re taught that “biblical submission” is God’s design for happiness. The message sounds reasonable enough: husbands lead with love, wives follow with respect, and harmony results. But here’s what those conferences don’t mention (shocking oversight): this “complementarian”...

Complementarianism sounds so reasonable when explained from church pulpits: wives submit to husbands, husbands love wives, everyone’s happy in their God-designed roles. What could go wrong? (Spoiler alert: literally everything.) Here’s the thing about “biblical womanhood” teachings that dominate evangelical culture—they’re packaged as empowering women through divine d...

Every Wednesday night across America, teenagers sit in church youth group circles confessing their “sins” to their peers. They call it “biblical accountability,” and it sounds perfectly reasonable—after all, don’t we all need support to become better people? (Spoiler alert: this isn’t about becoming better people. It’s about control.) Here’s how the...

Author and pastor Lee Strobel recently told Tucker Carlson that Satan and demons are likely working through Hollywood and mass media to corrupt society—a claim that sounds dramatic but reflects a troubling pattern in evangelical circles where conspiracy thinking gets baptized as spiritual discernment. Look, I get the appeal here. When the world feels chaotic and your values seem under attack, it&#...