Articles in Heretic Chicks
Jane:
Before Gina Welch’s final preparations for the Alaskan Salt and Light Evangelical mission, her mother arrived for a visit. They had a great conversation about a Phillip Roth public radio interview. Roth had told the …
Jane:
Gina Welch’s journey into the world of Thomas Road Baptist Church began with her experience at the Scaremare house of horrors/sins. Room after bloody, shocking room depicted a multitude of sins. After being told that …
LIZZIE
Well, Jane and I are feeling quite official as book reviewers now–seems our piece last year on Kevin Roose’s Unlikely Disciple was unearthed by a marketing director at Henry Holt Publishing. And, as a result, …
JANE
I am a frequent, if not daily reader of Salon.com and the other day I came across this article. It was an excerpt from the book, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest …
JANE
I love to read. I don’t get to read as much as I’d like, because I am a mom. Laugh all you will, but I miss my hour long commute into The City by train. …
I promised to write more about Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth, and (having just listened to the last chapter of the splendid, sparkling, accent-rich audiobook version narrated by John Lee), I think that …
Jane October 25 at 8:51am
Thank you for all of that. I won’t be able to properly sit and think and write until Sunday (hopefully afternoon, but possibly evening). There is a lot to respond to. …
Lizzie October 23 at 6:02pm
I am stuffed full of vanilla, luscious fudge sauce, and Reddi-whip–just from your answer to Question Two. And it’s just nutty enough. Who needs a cherry? (Memories of working the …
Jane October 23 at 8:44 am
Lizzie’s First Question: Is the cultural connection and uncodified personal spirituality enough for me?
Short answer: yes.
What follows is the long, much more rambling answer:
One of my housemates in my one …
Lizzie October 22 at 1:16pm
Okay, so I did just have to tell you one other thing. You know the documentary Religulous by Bill Maher?
One of his victims, I mean interviewees, is Ken Ham, the …
