When I was in high school, my sister and I once invented, on the spot, a rule against riding in cars with men we weren’t related to, in order to avoid being driven home from babysitting by a Growing Kids God’s Way dad who creeped us out. That was the last time we babysat for […]
Author Archives: Kathryn Brightbill
The moment Bernie Sanders lost the chance of my support. Or, how I learned to stop worrying and embrace Hillary Clinton
Going into Thursday’s Democratic debate I was undecided on who I was planning to vote for. I know a lot of people on both sides think it’s pretty cut and dried, but I’ve never seen it as a particularly simple decision. There are things I like about both Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, and there […]
Top 10 Posts of 2015
This year brought us the World’s Worst Homesteaders, discrimination in the name of religion, mass shootings, and way too much Duggar. Seriously, every Duggar post I wrote landed in my top ten because people, you really need to stop paying attention to them. I’m really close to resolving that no matter what they do next […]
If you were looking for my Army of God series, check back tomorrow for the next installment. We apparently can’t go a week between major mass shootings in this country, and while I would like to draw attention to the way that the cable media is going on about self-radicalization in the wake of the […]
If you’re a Covenant College student, you may have heard by now that Covenant applied for and received a Title IX exemption granting the school permission to legally discriminate against LGBT students. As a Covenant grad I’ve got a few things I’d like you to know. To the straight students, whatever you may believe about […]
Inside the Army of God Manual
Introduction Several years ago I happened across an archived copy of most of the anti-abortion domestic terrorism handbook the Army of God Manual. I thought it might be useful for background research somewhere down the line, so I saved PDFs of the archive and they’ve been sitting in a Google Drive folder ever since. With […]
But don’t call him a terrorist, right? I happen to have managed to track down all but the bomb making instructions section of the Army of God Manual a while back and have been trying to figure out what I can do with it for ages. Tomorrow I’ll be starting a series and publishing excerpts. […]
What happens after Colorado Springs?
You may think Planned Parenthood is wrong, you may think they’re immoral. Dehumanizing their employees, which is something I’ve been seeing a lot of on social media over the last few months, helps fuel violence like the kind that happened today. I haven’t said a lot on social media about the Planned Parenthood videos and […]
I Stand With Ahmed
I made this piece of art from wires and circuit boards. Would the Irving school district and police department think I should be arrested too? Or does the paleness of my skin mean my harmless projects are given the benefit of the doubt? Ahmed Mohamed’s story–nerdy kid builds something cool, wants to show it off–is […]
Three things you should know before writing about Josh Duggar
With the latest round of Josh Duggar scandals, it’s time to address a few things that have been floating around, both in the religious blogosphere and tabloid and mainstream media. If you’re going to write about the Duggars, here are some things you need to know. Before I begin with my list though, I want […]