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  • SBC In Turmoil? Evidence Corroborates Brown’s Attack on Denhollander Over Sketchy Texts

    SBC In Turmoil? Evidence Corroborates Brown’s Attack on Denhollander Over Sketchy Texts

    New evidence supports allegations that Rachael Denhollander has a conflict of interest problem regarding her involvement with sex abuse victims and the Southern Baptist Convention’s Abuse Hotline.
    Also, Denhollander allegedly gained access to private information from abuse victim and then contacted Liberty University for a paid position dealing with abuse complaints.

    (Capstone Report) Rachael Denhollander has a significant conflict of interest in her role advising victims contacting the SBC’s Abuse Hotline. New evidence corroborates everything Christa Brown alleged in her important Baptist News essay. This new evidence comes from a survivor advocate attempting to defend Denhollander.

    Jules Woodson said that the text messages included Denhollander providing guidance on attorneys who could represent alleged victims in cases against the Southern Baptist Convention. Here is a screenshot of the thread. Note how Woodson is trying to defend Denhollander’s involvement but accidently confirms the most serious ethical problems regarding Denhollander’s conflicts of interest.

    Note carefully, “Rachael good give them guidance on what types of attorneys to look for, as well as pitfalls to avoid (such as attorneys that require NDA’s,) Woodson said in the Twitter thread.

    This confirms Denhollander’s message revealed by Brown, “I just can’t publicly say that I’m helping survivors sue.”

    In other words, Woodson confirmed Denhollander is helping or intended to help abuse victims to sue the Southern Baptist Convention—while taking part in a system funded by the Southern Baptist Convention after already having represented an alleged victim who received a settlement (against legal advice) from the SBC.

    You really need to read Christa Brown’s essay at Baptist News that highlights the issues involved.

    Legal experts pointed toward Denhollander’s actions potentially violating ethical guidelines for...to continue reading , click here.


    Editor’s Note. This article was written and published at the Capstone Report.

  • Collection of Fun Christian Memes We Like #9

    Collection of Fun Christian Memes We Like #9

    This is all just mere ribbing and having fun, taking shots at all sides, including our own. If we made them, we tag them accordingly.

  • Tim Keller Says Negotiating Car Prices is Racist and *Systemic Evil*

    Tim Keller Says Negotiating Car Prices is Racist and *Systemic Evil*

    Tim Keller, founder of The Gospel Coalition and cultural Marxist extraordinaire, has a long history of saying awful, terrible things. There was the time his church called for more same-sex intimacy in churches, trashed the Social Justice and the Gospel Statement, endorsed the notion of a “gay Christian,” affirmed Christians have “liberty of conscience” to vote for pro-abortion Democrats, praised a pro-abortion Roman Catholic as believer who has shown the world a “brilliant example of how to be a Christian in the public square” and who has been a ‘witness’ for his faith in a “form the culture can handle,” and explained that Christians will be purged from government and schools and that they brought it on themselves.

    In fact, he’s usually so bad and distinctive in his wrongness, that we created a Tweet Generator about him.

    One of the worst things he’s said that is germane to the discussion, referenced here, is all white people participate in racial injustice simply by existing.

    “If you have that asset of white skin…the Bible actually says ‘yes you do…you are involved in injustice’, and even if you didn’t actually do it, therefore you have a responsibility. Not just to say “well, maybe if I get around to it, maybe we can do something about the poor people out there.’ No- you’re part of the problem.

    In a newly unearthed clip, Keller explains that when white people negotiate car prices with black women, they’re participating in a systemic form of racism.

    Let me give you a mini-system. I knew a man who was the head of a set of car dealerships in the South. And the car dealerships, the way in which things were done was you could come in and negotiate and the salesman had a pretty big window of what they could give you the car for.

    So they would negotiate and you would negotiate, and it was a way of- it was a lot of horse trading going on, except it was car trading, I guess. And the salesmen couldn’t go lower than this, but they could get as high- and so it was it was partly, it was a tradition. Somebody did some research and found out that A) men always were better negotiators with the salesmen than women. And white men and black men were better negotiators than African American women.

    And so when somebody actually looked at what was going on, African American women were regularly paying far more for their cars and actually subsidizing the the price of what white men were paying for cars in that particular town.

    And so they realized that even though nobody thought they were doing something, and if the result was unjust, and it was unjust, then even though there was nobody in there who originally had said, “let’s do it this way, because that way, we will really hurt African American women”, but they were hurting African American women.

    There’s two things you can do. On the one hand, you could say ‘because we’re not deliberately trying to hurt African American women, we make better profits this way, we have no responsibility’, but the owner, a Christian man, said we do. And he changed the model. He changed the whole approach. His own profits have gone down, but he says it’s the only way to be just.

    Have you got the eyes to see systemic evil? Or are you a typical white Westerner? I know a lot of you aren’t white. And a lot of you aren’t Westerners, but I’m particularly looking to you.

    https://twitter.com/WokePreacherTV/status/1297866659827458048

  • SBC Church with Pixar-themed Sermon Series ft. Eminem/Ciara Cover as Part of Their Liturgy

    SBC Church with Pixar-themed Sermon Series ft. Eminem/Ciara Cover as Part of Their Liturgy

    Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, is the embodiment of instituting worldly entertainment in the pathetic hope of catching the attention of wayward goatlings and luring them into staying. During new sermon series based on the Pixar Film “Up” service, the 8000- member Southern Baptist megachurch led by David Hughes continues its celebration of all things fleshly with a mashup of rapper Eminem and hip hop artist Ciara.

    Known for their extravagant attempts to keep their members entertained, in the past few months alone, they played a cover of Run D.M.C’s sleazy and sexual song Walk this Way in church, performed Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs for a sermon illustration, put on a Willy Wonka Christmas worship service’ and put on crazy ‘Baby Shark’ mashup during service, replete with smoke and canons!

    This is not part of the sermon illustration, but rather is purely meant to entertain. Their service outline includes several worship songs, announcements, a secular cover song, frequently with all the curse words and sex and violence modified out, and then the sermon.

    Senior pastor and Chief Entertainer David Hughes previously offered that they are a “hyper-creative church,” and they embrace a “whatever it takes” mentality in order to “entice a lot of families to come check out our church.”

    The church should have a show- every weekend we should have a show. I’ll tell you why. For my super spirituals right now, don’t log off, because Jesus promised and Matthew’s Gospel that anytime two or three or more would gather in his name, he would SHOW.

    With the Eminem portion, they sing his “Lose yourself” hit, though this is not a true cover as they frequently have the real artist playing as part of the backing track. For Ciara’s Level up, some of the lyrics include:

    All this on me, so yummy, all this oh so yummy
    You know you want this yummy, yummy all in your tummy
    Level up, level up, level up, level up, level up
    Level up, level up, level up, level up, level up
    All this on me, so yummy, all this oh so yummy
    You know you want this yummy, yummy all in your tummy

    Them old mistakes are gone, I won’t do them no more
    That’s old news, there’s new news, I done did that before
    I turned nothing to something, my comeback on one hunnid’
    Less talking, more action, you just gon’ CiCi coming
    I just keep elevating, no losses, just upgrading
    My lessons, made blessings, I turned that into money
    Thank God I never settled, this view is so much better
    I’m chilling, I’m winning, like on another level





  • Survey: Young Adult Church Attendance Post-Pandemic Drops 30%

    Survey: Young Adult Church Attendance Post-Pandemic Drops 30%

    The last three years of pandemic and post-pandemic life has given us the unforeseen blessing of sifting the wheat from the chaff, with the American Enterprise Institute’s (AEI) Survey Center on American Life reporting that 30% of young adults between the ages of 18-29 have either stopped attending church altogether or who are attending much less frequently. Study authors Lindsay Witt-Swanson, Jennifer Benz, and Daniel Cox explain:

    “The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted much of American society, including religious worship…rather than completely upending established patterns, the pandemic accelerated ongoing trends in religious change. Young people, those who are single, and self-identified liberals ceased attending religious services at all at much higher rates than other Americans did…

    At least in terms of religious attendance, the pandemic appears to have pushed out those who had maintained the weakest commitments to regular attendance.”

    AEI observed a overall drop in church attendance across all demographics of 7%. White evangelicals are the most likely to attend church services frequently. Black protestant church members attended far less often, with only 49% saying they attend regularly or occasionally, and white mainline churches even less than that. The latter certainly makes sense, as the vast majority of mainline protestants are lost souls who hate Jesus, demonstrated by their commitment to attending churches with overwhelming heterodox and heretical beliefs and practices.

    They also report:

    The increase in Americans who report never attending religious services was largely driven by those who had sporadic attendance patterns before the pandemic. Nearly all Americans who have shifted to no longer attending religious services at all were those who infrequently attended before the pandemic.

  • Woke M&M’s packaging features ‘Fat-Positive’ and ‘Lesbian’ Candies

    Woke M&M’s packaging features ‘Fat-Positive’ and ‘Lesbian’ Candies

    Last year, the confectionery giant Mars announced a revamp to their product line M&M, in order to give them a “fresh, modern take on the looks of our beloved characters and more nuanced personalities to underscore the importance of self-expression and power of community through storytelling” along with an “updated tone of voice that is more inclusive, welcoming, and unifying, while remaining rooted in our signature jester wit and humor.”

    They’ve recently unveiled limited edition packaging for their famous treats, featuring an all-female cast of candies. The packages will only have green, brown, and purple M&M’s, with the green and brown candies representing a lesbian couple and the purple representing ‘body positivity’, which is coded for fat positivity.


    The graphic on the package is oriented upside down, with the phrase “supporting the women flipping the status quo’ featured prominently on the front.

  • Denhollander Has HUGE Conflicts of Interest in Relationship with SBC Abuse Hotline

    Denhollander Has HUGE Conflicts of Interest in Relationship with SBC Abuse Hotline

    Is the SBC paying a lawyer to direct people to sue the SBC?

    Direct messages reveal Rachel Denhollander’s conflict of interests and that raises serious ethical questions for lawyers.

    Abuse advocates and survivors realize the SBC’s Abuse hotline ‘simply cannot be trusted.’

    (Capstone Report) The Southern Baptist Convention is directing abuse reporters through its Abuse Hotline to an abuse advocate and lawyer Rachael Denhollander. Unfortunately, new revelations reveal not only Denhollander’s conflict of interest but also, she is secretly directing abuse survivors to lawyers who could file lawsuits against the SBC and directing the abuse survivors to friendly members of the press—in what is clearly a pressure campaign against the SBC. So, it would appear the Southern Baptist Convention is funding a system where abuse victims are routed to a lawyer who advises alleged abuse victims on tactics to maximize financial and reputational harm to the SBC.

    Abuse survivor and appellate lawyer Christa Brown made the stunning revelations in a new column posted by Baptist News Global and then revealed supporting documentation on Twitter. According to the documents posted on Twitter,

    Brown said, “Since my truthfulness has been publicly questioned, here’s 1 text from Denhollander: ‘I am the advocate they will refer survivors to so I can help them evaluate press & legal options…’ There’s more. I gave documentation to @baptist_news before they published. Common practice… Context? Here’s another excerpt from a Denhollander text: “GP gave her my info…I just can’t publicly say that I’m helping survivors potentially sue…” That is apparently one reason why this info about Denhollander’s role with the hotline has not been widely disseminated.”

    Here are the direct messages of interest Brown posted. Pay special attention to the last lines where Denhollander tells Brown that “I just can’t public say that I’m helping survivors potentially sue.”

    The SBC is funding the hotline. The only question—is the SBC paying Denhollander?

    If so, that raises all sorts of legal questions. Of course, even if not that raises serious questions. Plus, there were already questions with the Sex Abuse Task Force decided to “retain” Denhollander—after all Denhollander represented a client who threated a lawsuit against the SBC and settled that case for over a million dollars thanks to Ronnie..

    To continue reading click here, and you’re going to really want to click.

    Editor’s Note. This article was written and published by the Capstone Report. Title changed by Protestia.

  • Dante Bowe Set To Give First Concert Since Nude Selfie Scandal

    Dante Bowe Set To Give First Concert Since Nude Selfie Scandal

    Former Maverick City Music singer Dante Bowe is set to participate in a series of events in his hometown of Rockingham, NC this weekend, serving as the Grand Marshal for the annual MLK parade and performing a local concert at Rockingham Middle School, in events sponsored by the Richmond County Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Foundation.

    Several months ago, Bowe was kicked out of the Grammy-winning worship band Maverick City music after demonstrating “behavior inconsistent with our core values and beliefs.”

    Though no specific cause was given, it’s been reported by many that he was axed for partying and singing the Bad Bunny song “Despues De La Playa,” a Spanish song with filthy lyrics that caused the band no end of controversy. Our exclusive investigation, however, reveals that he wasn’t asked to leave the group simply for those speculated reasons but because he accidentally posted sexually explicit material of himself online, revealing a hidden life incompatible with one of the biggest worship bands on the planet.

    Dante would later release a non-apology that he quickly deleted (but not before we obtained a screenshot of it where he does not admit to any wrongdoing, only that his behavior “offended many people.” As a result of his termination from Maverick City Music, he cancelled his ‘Joyful Tour.’ 

    This event will be his first public performance since his expulsion. With most of his social media having gone dark and Bowe not posting anything on Instagram since in the last 3 months, this may be the start of his return back into the limelight and into the public eye.

  • Under Cross-Examination by Lawyer, Ruslan Says He Hasn’t Lied in 8 Years

    Under Cross-Examination by Lawyer, Ruslan Says He Hasn’t Lied in 8 Years

    Christian YouTube creator Ruslan KD, who we’ve clashed with in the past for giving passes to Modalists like Marcus Rogers, doubling down on dissing us over a John MacArthur/Julie Roys article and recently joining up with Joel Osteen and several NAR false prophets for a scammy ‘Prosperity & Wealth” seminar whose sole purpose seems to inject you with bad theology while pressuring you to pay them money, appeared on The Lead Attorney’s YouTube stream, where he claimed he hasn’t lied in 8 years. 

    The assertion comes from discussing divorce and custody battles, and whether someone cheating on their spouse necessarily makes them a bad parent who may be unfit to take custody or care for the child. 

    Whereas Ruslan did well to defend certain tenets of the Christian faith regarding marriage and relationships, his imprecision and lack of a nuanced perspective, coupled with the gall to think he could steamroll his way through the conversation, was swiftly and brutally cross-examined by the seasoned lawyer. Unable to dismiss and blow off people as he does on his show, Ruslan stumbles badly. The wole thing is well worth the watch. 

    Because Ruslan is unwilling to say that sometimes men of integrity do lie (i.e., they sin), and is also arrogant to boot, he gets pushed badly, offering that he became a man of integrity when he turned 30, and in the 8 years since, has not lied, or at the very least, cannot remember ever lying, something we don’t believe for a second.

  • Pastor Jack Hayford Has Passed Away

    Pastor Jack Hayford Has Passed Away

    Pastor Jack Hayford, the founder of The Church on the Way in Van Nuys, California, and prominent author and hymn-writer passed away yesterday at the age of 88.

    Along with being the chancellor of the school he founded, The King’s University in Southlake, Texas, he also served a term as the president of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel. He wrote more than 600 hymns, including “Majesty” in 1978. When he took over the pastorate of Church on the Way, it had less than 20 people, and he eventually grew it to over 10,000 at its height.

    Keep his family in your prayers.

    Editor’s Note. Despite his ministry success, he was plagued by aberrant theology and associations. Given to charismatic dreams and visions, he was an ardent supporter of Rick Warren and Purpose Drivinism and repeatedly promoted and partnered with money-grubbing false teacher Robert Morris (who teaches if you don’t give 10% of your gross income, God will curse your money)

    Throughout his life his discernment and theological prowess was crushingly wrong; he claimed direct revelation from God told him to partner with Roman Catholics for ecumenical purposes, spoken several times at heretic Robert Schuller’s men’s conferences at the Crystal Cathedral, and would repeatedly laud mystical encounters and charismatic vices, such as speaking in tongues and “holy dancing.”