Cofounder of The Flytrap @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social Senior correspondent for Religion Dispatches Former weekly columnist for openDemocracy Ball State (BA) and Stanford (PhD) alum Pacific Northwest via a long, weird, winding roadhttps://bsky.app/profile/thebugbeardispatch.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social/post/3mzivo3pbhk2c@theflytrapmedia.com [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Nov 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:jfteq33xtydagtk2tamcfc3p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mzivo3pbhk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social/post/3myarcgch6c2oAre you a cozy gamer? What themes and features draw you in? [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Oct 2026 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:jfteq33xtydagtk2tamcfc3p/app.bsky.feed.post/3myarcgch6c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social/post/3myarcgch6c2oAre you a cozy gamer? What themes and features draw you in? [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Oct 2026 18:38 +0000at://did:plc:jfteq33xtydagtk2tamcfc3p/app.bsky.feed.post/3myarcgch6c2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social/post/3mxrws6npmk2dWhat are your favorite cozy games and why? [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Oct 2026 21:06 +0000at://did:plc:jfteq33xtydagtk2tamcfc3p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxrws6npmk2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social/post/3lrvlnbygvc2tIt’s an uphill struggle getting people to accept that Christians can be bad people. But the even harder truth that people urgently need to grasp in this time of Christofascism is that for some understandings of Christianity, to be a GOOD Christian is to be a BAD person. Denial makes things worse18 Jun 2025 18:00 +0000at://did:plc:jfteq33xtydagtk2tamcfc3p/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrvlnbygvc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social/post/3mxrsn66pls2nFor @theflytrapmedia.com, I wrote about cozy gaming! It's this month's free post, so give it a read: https://www.theflytrapmedia.com/tis-the-cozy-games-season/13 Oct 2026 19:52 +0000at://did:plc:jfteq33xtydagtk2tamcfc3p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxrsn66pls2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social/post/3mxrslon65c2nRight around kindergarten I think. Couldn't place exactly what made me weird, but I was already becoming a kid who lived in their head [contains quote post or other embedded content]13 Oct 2026 19:51 +0000at://did:plc:jfteq33xtydagtk2tamcfc3p/app.bsky.feed.post/3mxrslon65c2n