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  • Logos Bible Software Sells Books on ‘How to Write Erotica’ & Be A Porn Star+ A Timeline of Customer Service Inaction, Part 2

    Logos Bible Software Sells Books on ‘How to Write Erotica’ & Be A Porn Star+ A Timeline of Customer Service Inaction, Part 2

    Two days ago, we broke the news that Logos Bible Software and their sister site Faithlife E-books were selling thousands of titles that contained hardcore erotica and pornography that rivaled the most sordid and smuttiest of Harlequins. Now, it gets even worse. 

    Logos Bible Software is perhaps the world’s most prominent and popular sermon prep and bible study software. Released in 1992 by Faithlife Corporation, this digital library application contains over 100,000 titles and theological resources in over a dozen languages and has been endorsed by everyone from John MacArthur to Beth Moore. 

    Early last month, a long-time Logos user who spent nearly $15,000 on books and bible commentaries over the last decade discovered that the lauded company sold thousands of perverted and wanted to see this rectified, as Logos suddenly became unsafe for his children to use.

    On Feb 2, he messaged Vik Rajagopal, CEO, directly via Linkedin and received no response.

    On Feb 3, he messaged Vik Rajagopal via https://faithlife.com/messages/vikrajagopal and received no response. 

    After a few days he tried again, emailing Logos Sales and Customer Service on Feb 5, which we covered in depth here, giving them a detailed list of the problem. (which if you haven’t red yet, read first and then come back to this)

    He told them (in part) “Here are just a few of what appear to be 100s of erotic pornographic fiction titles currently being sold on Logos” and gave a list, including: Slow Satisfaction, Slow Seduction, Wild Licks, The Hookup Plan, Taking the Lead, That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon, I Need a Hero Box Set: A Military Romance Collection, Unbuttoning the CEO, One Night with the CEO, Getting Dirty with the CEO, Hard Rhythm, Ravished by a Highlander, Tamed by a Highlander, The Seduction of Miss Amelia Bell, The Scandalous Secret of Abigail MacGregor, Seduced by a Highlander, Conquered by a Highlander, A Highlander’s Christmas Kiss, Laird of the Black Isle, The Taming of Malcolm Grant, Laird of the Mist, A Highlander Never Surrenders, The Scot’s Bride, Highlander Ever After. 

    On Feb 6th,  Logos Customer Service replied, telling him “We have notified the supervisors and departments involved in removing this content.  We don’t have a timeframe on when it will be finalized but we did want you to know that we are working on it.”

    On Feb 7th, the next day, Logos removed about a dozen books for purchase. But a dozen is a drop in the bucket, given that their catalog contains thousands of these books. While some books were excised, others included in his list of offending titles were not and remain at the time of writing, including:

    Making matters more frustrating, however, is that while Logos removed a dozen titles from their outward-facing store, they were not removed from the Logos Bible Study app. All the pornographic books and others can still be accessed via the Logos “Add to Library” Search.” (Note for picture: the little shopping cart icon next to the book title indicates the book can be purchased.)

    The complainant told us, “I asked them to fix the problem, not remove a couple of books.” Having these books still accessible in the Logos Bible Study app is not fixing the problem.

    Following his email and their pledge to look into it, he thanked them and requested, “Please keep me posted.”

    They did not keep him posted. On Feb 9th, he requested a status update from the customer care agent, but no one got back to him, and no further responses were forthcoming. 

    After being ghosted, he checked the Logos website for the next three weeks. Apparently, the removal of a dozen books is as serious as the company took it because thousands of erotic and pornographic books remained and were not removed from the front or back end, despite the company knowing about it early last month.

    These still-available books include ‘How to Write Erotica”, and “Affection, an Erotic Memoir,” which has a naked woman’s butt on the front cover that we had to blur out.

    After waiting weeks and seeing no further action, he contacted us through our tip line (Twitter DM’s or editor@protestia.com) and we wrote the story, bringing it all into the light, and prompting the company to take a more urgent course of action.

    Describing the issue as the result of an “automated feed from the publisher” and the graphic content as not in alignment with their philosophy, Logos Bible Software announced that they were removing hundreds of erotic novels from their e-book service available through the Logos application.

    Sadly, for several days now we have put in multiple requests through multiple channels for an interview or conversation with Logos about this, but so far they have declined our request. If anyone has any contacts at Logos who would be willing to give us further clarity, please let us know.

    See you tomorrow for Part 3.

  • Calvin University Prez. Resigns After ‘Unwelcome, Inappropriate’ Behavior+ Good Riddance Wokester!

    Calvin University Prez. Resigns After ‘Unwelcome, Inappropriate’ Behavior+ Good Riddance Wokester!

    Calvin University President Wiebe Boer has resigned following allegations that he “engaged in unwelcome and inappropriate communication and attention toward a non-student member of the campus community,” according to a press release from the school. 

    Calvin University is a Michigan-based University belonging to the conservative CRCNA (Christian Reformed Church in North America) that has been embroiled in controversy over the years, which we have documented here:

    Rep. Hillary Scholten, a Member of the Christian Reformed Church, Defends Legal Abortion at Calvin University
    Christian University Gives LBGTQ-Affirming Professor Kristin Kobes Du Mez Permission to be Against Biblical Marriage
    Cowards! Calvin University Caves to Pro-LGBTQ Faculty, Allows them to Affirm Sodomy and Sin
    Calvin, Kuyper Staff Expose The Hopeless Works Burden Of “Antiracist” Christianity
    We’ve Lost them. Calvin University Releases the Wokest Promo Ever: Reveals How Far the CRCNA has Gone

    We have long argued Calvin should no longer be considered a Christian University after it compromised on issues of biblical sexual morality by allowing professors to affirm sodomy, thereby continuing its dark descent into theological deviltry.

    Wiebe became President of Calvin in 2022 and is well-liked by Kristin Kobes Du Mez; definitely a strike against him, and he has been a driving force in lubricating the LGBTQ takeover of the school. 

    Upon receiving the report, the University “immediately engaged outside experts to ensure that Calvin University responded to the report in compliance with our policy and legal requirements, including Title IX. After being notified of the report, Dr. Boer denied some of the allegations but did admit to sending communications that were inappropriate and inconsistent with the high standard of conduct and character expected of the President of Calvin University. Dr. Boer subsequently offered his resignation, which the Board accepted.”

    Good riddance! It’s time to bring someone on as President who will right the flailing ship and purge the scourge of wokeism and wicked sexual ethics from the school once and for all. 


  • ‘Sexual Magic for the Solo Witch,’ + A Timeline of Logos Bible Software’s Customer Service Inaction, Part 1

    ‘Sexual Magic for the Solo Witch,’ + A Timeline of Logos Bible Software’s Customer Service Inaction, Part 1

    Yesterday, we broke the news that Logos Bible Software and their sister site Faithlife E-books were selling over 1000 titles that contained hardcore erotica and pornography that rivaled the most sordid and smuttiest of Harlequins, and that they have since apologized and pledged to take it down.

    Some of our readers questioned why we did not go to the company privately with our concerns. They insisted that rather than blowing them up publicly, we should have simply shared our findings with them rather than rushing in and going off half-cocked without giving them the chance to respond.

    This article exists to peel back the layers and offer some context, background, and inside baseball. It explains why we did it and how it all started with the “Sexual Magic of a Witch” and a complaint sent to customer service to Logos on February 2 by one of their long-timers users, that we’re sharing in full today.



    This is in Part One.

    In Part Two, we will share Logos’ customer service response.

    Logos Sales and Customer Support,

    Over the weekend, (Feb 2) I sent a message to your CEO, Vik, through Linkedin and the Logos platform, but I have not received a response. I have serious concerns about the material you are selling in your “Christian Bookstore.” 

    As I shared with Vik, I have been an enthusiastic Logos customer for several years and have spent tens of thousands of dollars on your platform. This last week, while searching for additional books on the topic of the New Age movement, I was shocked to stumble on the fact that you are selling sexually explicit and how-to occult books!

    The book that appeared in my initial search is Crimson Craft: Sexual Magic for the Solo Witch.

    I looked up the table of contents and was shocked to learn that this book is about how to perform perverse sexual acts on yourself and others while using spells and witchcraft. 
    This is the table of contents taken from your site:

    Why would anyone studying the Bible need a book explaining how to cast spells while performing BDSM and Kink acts? Why is Logos selling books like this? This book and others like it have no place in any library, especially a Christian library. 

    After making the horrible discovery above, I thought, is this a one-off, or are there more books like this in your online bookstore? I was shocked at what I found. The answer is the Quin book is not a one-off. 

    Here are just a few of what appear to be 100s of erotic pornographic fiction titles currently being sold on Logos. (Read some of those titles)

     Slow Satisfaction, Slow Seduction, Wild Licks, The Hookup Plan, Taking the Lead, That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon, I Need a Hero Box Set: A Military Romance Collection, Unbuttoning the CEO, One Night with the CEO, Getting Dirty with the CEO, Hard Rhythm, Ravished by a Highlander, Tamed by a Highlander, The Seduction of Miss Amelia Bell, The Scandalous Secret of Abigail MacGregor, Seduced by a Highlander, Conquered by a Highlander, A Highlander’s Christmas Kiss, Laird of the Black Isle, The Taming of Malcolm Grant, Laird of the Mist, A Highlander Never Surrenders, The Scot’s Bride, Highlander Ever After. 

    These books contain pervasive explicit sexual content, vulgar language, explicit pornographic sex scenes, BDSM, and other gross stuff. The content in these books is so perverse and vile that I dare not copy a redacted, let alone a full-text citation. The content is beyond disgusting and gross. 

    Logos, you are selling some seriously dirty filth! You claim to “exist to empower believers everywhere to go deeper in the Bible through a fusion of Bible study resources and powerful technology.” The books you are selling contradict your claim.


    Moreover, there are no explicit content warnings on your website! There are no content filters in your software products, and I have confirmed that this pornographic and occult content can be full-text searched in Logos 10 Gold or higher without purchase! This poses significant risks to my children. Now, I’m forced to take away access. 

    Anyone (again even children) with access to Logos 10 Gold or higher can click on “Library,” click the “Add to Library” tab, and then search for any key term or book title listed on Logos.com! All the books I mentioned above can be full-text searched – again without purchase. 

    Here is a reproduction of the issue. When I type in the word “sex” in Logos, I expect to find Biblical and theological treatments on the topic. What possible reason could Logos have for including “200 Questions About Sex” by Cosmopolitan or “Working Sex: Sex Workers Write About a Changing Industry” in your collection of books?

    And once the book is added to your “Print Library,” you can search for any keyword or phrase. If the term is found, Logos will return nearly a paragraph of text! Again, there are zero parental controls and what appears to be hundreds of sexually explicit books.

    If a determined user searches for a phrase near the end of the resultant paragraph, only 3 to 4 words are needed; it appears that a user can theoretically read any searchable book in its entirety. Here is an example of what I’m talking about. 

     “Working Sex” book, a search for “or the amateur” returns the following result.

    Now, type a phrase near the end of the paragraph, like “been stuck with the epithets,” and the next section of the text is returned.


    Do it again, and the text continues to progress.


    And again.

    I think you get the picture. This is one example. There are far more graphic titles in your collection with graphic sexual content that no one should be reading, especially Christians!

    Here are two publishers Logos is working with that have an extensive catalog of romance porn books, and there appear to be others. 

    Publisher: Forever

    Publisher: Forever Yours

    When we’re at the point where we are forced to blur suggestive book covers sold by the “world’s leading Bible study software company” website, there is something seriously wrong with Christendom.  

    There are no Bible verses in this book. I checked.

    How can you put up a message like this next to porn books? This is the Bible we are talking about! God’s holy word!

    Besides the sexual content, your store contains non-theological/academic books on Spellcasting, Spell Recipes, Divination, Witchcraft, Astrology, Manifesting, Tarot Card Reading, New Age, and Occult Rituals – some targeting children. These are not academic or research books. Why is Logos selling this demonic material? This material is dangerous

    Here are some examples: (Ed. Note, picture of below book added by us)

    The Junior Witch’s Handbook: A Kid’s Guide to White Magic, Spells, and Rituals, The Junior Witch’s Handbook: A Kid’s Guide to White Magic, Spells, and Rituals, The Junior Astrologer’s Handbook: A Kid’s Guide to Astrological Signs, the Zodiac, and More, The Junior Tarot Reader’s Handbook: A Kid’s Guide to Reading Cards, A Kid’s Guide to the Chinese Zodiac: Animal Horoscopes, Legendary Myths, and Practical Uses for Ancient Wisdom.


    Publisher: Running Press Kids

    None of this content belongs on the “world’s leading Bible study software.” I should not have to worry about protecting my family or my brothers and sisters from Bible software. You need to remove this content from your website. This is very disheartening, to say the least. Logos, this is unacceptable!

    Please provide a response as to when it will be taken down.

    Part 2 continues tomorrow.

  • Update: Logos Bible Software Removing Pornographic Material

    Update: Logos Bible Software Removing Pornographic Material

    Describing the issue as the result of an “automated feed from the publisher” and the graphic content as not in alignment with their philosophy, Logos Bible Software announced that they were removing hundreds of erotic novels from their e-book service available through the Logos application.

    This, of course, is welcome news, as this material has no place next to Bible study resources. Yet an explanation has not yet been forthcoming as to why previous complaints by customers seemingly went unaddressed, but the company’s response to the public awareness of the problem seems to be the right one so far. The internet can be a challenging place to stay pure, and errors can happen.

    In response to Logos announcement, we have added an update to the original article.

  • YWAM In Mourning After 11 Missionaries Killed in Bus Crash, 2 More In Critical Condition

    YWAM In Mourning After 11 Missionaries Killed in Bus Crash, 2 More In Critical Condition

    Youth With a Mission (YWAM) founder Darlene Cunningham has shared that 11 of their missionaries were killed in a tragic bus accident in Tanzania last week, which also saw five others moderately injured and a man and a woman hospitalized in critical condition.

    Participants in the “Executive Masters in Leadership” course, based at YWAM Arusha, Tanzania, took a field trip in two buses to Maasai land, where they observed our thriving community development program. They had a very good day together. On the return trip to Arusha, a truck that had lost its brakes smashed into our 2nd bus, literally crushing it from top to bottom. Eleven of our beloved friends were killed and eight others are severely wounded, battling for their lives. We have not seen a tragedy of this magnitude in all of YWAM’s history and we are all devastated.

    While their full names and nationalities are being kept confidential, Cunningham confirmed that the men and women killed were “key YWAM leaders in the region – some leading flourishing YWAM bases; others giving leadership in the field of education and other spheres; others ministering in restricted-access locations where no one else would dare to go.”

    With their motto “know God and make Him known,” YWAM is an interdenominational and non-profit organization comprising of 20,000 workers in hundreds of independent ministries operating from some 1,000 bases in over 180 countries, pioneering short-term missions with a heavy charismatic emphasis.

  • Exclusive: ‘Logos Software’ Selling Hardcore Erotica Porn Alongside Devotionals and Bible Studies

    Exclusive: ‘Logos Software’ Selling Hardcore Erotica Porn Alongside Devotionals and Bible Studies

    Update: Logos announced the same day this article was published that the offensive material on their platform was an error and that they were removing the offending content ASAP.

    This post contains links with graphic descriptions and language. Viewer discretion is strongly advised.

    Logos Bible Software is perhaps the world’s most prominent and popular sermon prep and bible study software. Released in 1992 by Faithlife Corporation, this digital library application contains over 100,000 titles and theological resources in over a dozen languages, and has been endorsed by everyone from John MacArthur to Beth Moore.

    Logos offers access to Christian classics, academic work, commentaries, encyclopedias, bibles, devotionals, Greek and Hebrew lexicons, datasets, lectionaries, dictionaries, interlinears, and all other sorts.

    Aimed at colleges, seminaries, pastors, teachers and laypeople, these items are offered through standalone purchases or through packaged bundles. In some cases, these bundles cost up to $2149.99.


    Books are also offered through Faithlife E-books, which has over 100K titles and is named after their namesake Faithlife Corporation, which owns several other companies in this field:

    Faithlife E-books and Logos also sell hardcore erotica. We have uncovered hundreds of books that Logos has sold or is currently selling that contain extended graphic and descriptive sex scenes rivaling the most sordid and smuttiest of Harlequins.

    A few examples include: (Warning, to view, click to enlarge)

    Content can also be seen here and here

    While one-offs of these books can be purchased and added separately, the content can also be full text searched via Logos 10 gold or higher without purchasing the books, giving any bored pastor quick access to this content where no one would think to look, and without ever having to pay for it. There is no content warning for this literature through the program, and it cannot be locked down or blocked by a firewall.

    So why is Logos selling it?

    According to Logos’ distribution philosophy, “Logos is not a church, charity, ministry, or nonprofit” but a “technology company and bookstore that serves churches, pastors, academics, and laity.” While their guidelines insist that they don’t sell media that contains pornography, they clearly do, with nearly 750 titles containing explicit content cataloged.

    One longtime Logos user, whose identity we are shielding, estimates he’s spent over $15,000 on their resources in the last decade. He has contacted the company multiple times over the last month, sounding the alarm about selling these perverse resources, but alleges no one has responded to him or bothered returning his messages.

    We hope you will change that.

    You can submit a customer service form to Logos here, or call this number: 1-888-563-0382, or email them at cs@logos.com, sharing this link and insisting that they stop selling erotic and pornographic books.

    Please DM us on Twitter with any correspondences they send back.

  • Right Now Media Brings Left-Wing Partisan Political Indoctrination to Church Small Groups

    Right Now Media Brings Left-Wing Partisan Political Indoctrination to Church Small Groups

    With less than nine months until the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, political operatives of all stripes are hard at work using all means of persuasion to push the electorate to vote for their candidate. In early 2023, Protestia reported on the launch of The After Party, a left-wing political indoctrination campaign produced under the guise of a church small group curriculum. The After Party is the initiative of Redeeming Babel and its leftist founder Curtis Chang, who produced the material in partnership with Christianity Today’s editor-in-chief Russell Moore and New York Times Columnist David French. 

    The curriculum is designed to make conservative Christians doubt their political convictions and cast aspersions on anyone who would say that the truth on issues like abortion can be readily ascertained through scripture. 

    Chang, French, and Moore would rather have Christians believe that all political issues are so complex and convoluted, that a faithful Christian must seek to find common ground with political opponents and leave the complex and controversial issues of politics to “experts”, like French, Moore, Chang, and their secular-leftist counterparts. 

    Attempts to gain political power and enact laws that reflect Biblical values by Christian conservatives like U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson are rhetorically slapped down with the labels of “Political Idolatry” and “Christian Nationalism.” Chang, French, and Moore preach a brand of religious pluralism that seems to trust secularists and leftists over Christian leadership in what would best be described as an ill-conceived left-wing pluralist pietistic caricature of Biblical Christianity. 

    The After Party was recently placed under renewed scrutiny, as investigative reporting by Megan Basham uncovered that production of the curriculum was funded by secular leftist organizations, including Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ New Pluralists Project, One America Movement, and the Hewlett Foundation. These organizations that funded The After Party simultaneously funded numerous leftist causes, including LGBTQ awareness, efforts to expand access to abortion, and “gender-affirming care” for youth. 

    The After Party released a statement attacking Basham’s report as containing “inaccuracies and misleading insinuations”. The organization was especially concerned that Basham described the curriculum as “a Bible study” when they viewed their material as a “six-part digital course designed for individuals and small groups to experience, within or outside of a local church.” 

    While Basham’s reporting focused on the secular progressive organizations that bankrolled the propaganda in The After Party, many conservative Christians, pastors, and elders are unaware that their churches are currently paying for subscription services that pipe leftist political propaganda like The After Party into the homes of their entire congregation. Right Now Media advertises itself as “the world’s largest video-streaming library of Biblical Resources.” The Christian media giant has partnered with more than 25,000 churches to provide what they describe as a “library of over 20,000 Biblically-based videos.” 

    Right Now Media Subscribing Churches pay monthly subscription fees ranging from $154.99 for a church of 101 average attendees, to $1,509.99 for a church of 5,000 attendees. A large portion of Right Now Media content is targeted at church small groups, which also happens to be the explicitly self-stated target audience of The After Party:

    “The After Party does the heavy lifting to support local leaders. By presenting national trusted evangelical voices, local leaders do not have to take all the fire by themselves. They only need to sponsor this curriculum into their small group communities, and let us make the case….. The curriculum does the complex – but absolutely necessary – theological work of reframing Christian political identity from today’s divisive partisan options….In today’s political environment, faithfulness to this Biblical ‘how’ of political engagement will shine as a radical alternative to both the Right and the Left.”

    While The After Party criticized Megan Basham for characterizing its curriculum as a “Bible study”, Right Now media markets the curriculum as part of its package of “Biblically-based videos” for church small groups, and describes the course as “advancing a Christ-centered political identity”. How can one accurately describe what it means to be Christ-centered without delving into the scriptures?

    Right Now Media’s 2023 For the Health of the Nation curriculum partnered He Gets Us Campaign apologist Ed Stetzer with National Association of Evangelical’s President Walter Kim to produce another piece of leftist political propaganda. ‘For the Health of the Nation’ functions as an ideological companion piece to The After Party. Stetzer and Kim label anything deemed politically divisive as “political idolatry”, lean heavily on the same ideology of political surrender found in The After Party, and equivocate on social issues by labeling them “complex”.

    For Black History Month 2024, Right Now Media partnered with The And Campaign, a leftist political organization led by democratic political strategist and slavery reparations advocate Justin Giboney to present How I Got Over, a documentary on the origins of the Black Church. How I Got Over purports to “debunk the misconception that orthodoxy is a white western construct.” Promotional material for the series features Marxist theologian and leftist politician Cornel West and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who denied various foundational truths of the Christian faith, including the virgin birth, resurrection, the trinity, and substitutionary atonement.

    The Right Now Media landing page for the series includes direct links to the And Campaign website, where Christians are urged to “become advocates against political violence”, by politically advocating for The And Campaign platform of social welfare programs, the end of voter ID laws, the implementation of civil rights laws that protect LGBTQ identifying people as a protected class, and a commitment to religious and ideological pluralism. The organization’s platform is aligned with much of the Democratic party platform. 

    Right Now Media’s content on politics in a presidential election year has a demonstrable left-wing bias, and political operatives like Curtis Chang, David French, Russell Moore, Ed Stetzer, Walter Kim, and Justin Giboney are actively exploiting the content pipeline, in an effort to convince conservative Christians that they must compromise their political convictions and give power over to secular progressives for the sake of “principled pluralism.” Many conservative churches unknowingly support this effort by paying subscription fees that support this content. The most concerning aspect of Right Now Media’s political influence is the fact that many congregants will receive the messages from these propaganda campaigns as a form of “Biblical truth”, since they are tagged as “Biblically-based videos” with a tacit stamp of approval from the church that provides access to the subscription.

    Sources:

    Follow the Money to the After Party | Megan Basham | First Things

    RightNow Media

    Home – Redeeming Babel

    The After Party: Toward Better Christian Politics – Redeeming Babel

    Frequently Asked Questions – Redeeming Babel

    An Open Letter to the Editor of First Things: Correcting the Record – Redeeming Babel

    How I Got Over: The Resilience of the Black Church | RightNow Media

    The Means and Methods of Christian Political Engagement | RightNow Media

    The After Party: Towards Better Christian Politics :: RightNow Media

    Russell Moore’s New Curriculum Exists to Give Pastors ‘Plausible Deniability’ For Avoiding Politics in Pulpit+ Sneak in Beliefs Without Taking the Blame – Protestia

    David French and Russell Moore Launch Curriculum to Teach Christians How to Engage in Politics – Protestia

    AND Campaign Leader Says White Churches Who Don’t Want to Pay Racial Reparations are Arguing With God – Protestia

  • ‘We need to approach. Father God, just be with us. Forgive us our sins.’ Police Release Bodycam Footage of Lakewood Church Shooting

    ‘We need to approach. Father God, just be with us. Forgive us our sins.’ Police Release Bodycam Footage of Lakewood Church Shooting

    Police have released bodycam and security footage of the shooting in Lakewood church, showing the chaos and terror of the encounter. 

    On February 11, 2024 Genesse Moreno entered Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church with an AR-15 and opened fire, causing people to flee and take cover. Minutes later, she was dead and two people were injured, including the shooter’s seven-year-old son, who was shot in the head three times and remains in critical condition.

    As soon as the shooting begins, the off-duty officers instantly start towards the gunfire, with one saying, “We need to approach. Father God, just be with us. Forgive us our sins.” 

    Later, after a round of gunfire, Moreno can be heard screaming, “You killed my son,” and “stand down…I have a f***** bomb.”

    After heading down another hallways, she was shot by officers multiple times, ending the threat. A police can later be heared reporting over their radios ““Shooter is down. Looks like she’s got something strapped to her chest.”

    A bomb squad was called out, but no explosives were found. 

  • Good News! Jared Moore Announces Bid To Become New SBC President

    Good News! Jared Moore Announces Bid To Become New SBC President

    In news we’re happy to hear, Jared Moore, the pastor of Homesteads Baptist Church in Crossville, TN, and author of the excellent The Lust of the Flesh, has thrown his hat in the ring and announced he’s running for Southern Baptist Convention president, revealing his plans and visions in a Credo spaces.

    This is a very good thing. Moore has a track record of theological faithfulness and soundness, as well as being one of the leading voices against Side B Theology, battling back against the progressive push inside the church.

    He’s also staunchly supportive of the Mike Law amendment. He claims that he’d do all he could to fire Ethics and Religious Commission (ERLC) President Brent Leatherwood, who he has suggested is more liberal than Russell Moore.

    We’ve previously done an interview with Moore here:

    Podcast: Interview with Dr. Jared Moore on the Gay Error in Solid Pulpits



  • Global Senior Leaders of ‘Hillsong-Like’ ‘Neuma Church’ Resign After Sexual Misconduct

    Global Senior Leaders of ‘Hillsong-Like’ ‘Neuma Church’ Resign After Sexual Misconduct

    A month after global senior leaders Corey and Simone Turner suddenly resigned from Neuma Church, a multi-site, multi-country megachurch based in Australia, they have revealed publicly that their parting ways with the church was the result of an adulterous sexual affair by Corey.

    The Turners became the new senior leaders of the church shortly before the pandemic. With 9 million dollars in yearly revenue from nine campuses across the world, the Australian-based church was frequently compared with Hillsong, being similar in theology, ideology, and plans for aggressive global expansion.

    Following their initial, sudden resignation, Neuma Church board member Jacomi Du Prezz said they were leaving because “their health and well being is such that they are no longer able to function in these roles.” Almost instantly, however, rumors began to swirl that their departure was the result of Corey having a sexual relationship with Stacey Hilliar, another pastor on staff.

    These rumors have now been confirmed. Writing on her Instagram, Simone reveals a statement from her husband, who hedges his bets with a bunch of excuses, explaining that towards the end of 2023, “I didn’t sufficiently guard my heart, reach out for help from trusted spiritual fathers, take decisive action or get the necessary rest I needed from compounding levels of fatigue in my own soul.” As a result: “In a fog of deception that clouded my emotions and judgment, I sinned and compromised my relationship with God.”

    Saying that he’s grateful for his wife and kids (at least is now, anyway), Corey explains that he and his wife are receiving support and direction from spiritual leaders who will heal and “restore us” as he confronts “the errors of my own heart and receiving ministry for the unhealed soul wounds that have contributed to my actions.

    We’ll call it here.

    He’ll be restored and starting up a new church in under 18 months. Mark it!