Hold up. Hold up. Jonathan Merritt is gay? Forsooth. Egad. Inconceivable. Just kidding. Of course, he’s a practicing homosexual? Discernmenty Christians have been telling you this for basically forever. For crying out loud, we’ve been screaming it in posts entitled such as Jonathan Merritt and Three Dollar Bills, writing, “For
Hillsong head honcho Brian Houston, founder of the multi-site mega corp church group Hillsong has been officially charged by police for allegedly concealing and covering up his late father’s well-documented sexual abuse and molestation of children in the 1970’s, alleging that he knew boys were being abused, but did nothing.
Jonathan Merritt, the son of megachurch pastor James Merritt, and a journalist who has become a favorite of the Evangelical Intelligentsia who was last seen promoting “theistic evolution”, or arguing that women can lead churches because they have cracked nipples when they breastfeed, surprised no one today when he announced on Instagram that..drumroll….he is
Editor’s Note. While not strickly about polemics or theology, and therefore not something we typically do around here, this extended thread about media manipulation, optics and perception serves to highlight many of the things that are adjecent to this. Also while not everyone at Protestia is ‘vaccine hesitant’, we are
On this episode of Polemics Report for August 3rd, 2021, JD discusses a pastor justifying plagiarism by butchering scripture. In the Patron portion, we answer questions about the silliness of accusing Voddie Baucham of plagiarism, holding church services at Masonic Temples, and being held accountable for the sins of our
Like a younger version of Kat Kerr before she started smoking the electric lettuce or eating the devil’s jambalaya, Emma Stark is an up-and-coming prophetess from Ireland. She founded the Glasgow Prophetic Center with her husband in 2019 and describes herself as “a prophet who hears from God’, ‘a
In the latest development in a scandal-filled saga that has been playing out over the last year at his ministry compound, Kent Hovind’s ex-girlfriend/ wife has taken an order of protection against the disgraced creationist, claiming that he physically abused her by ‘body-slamming her’ and has engaged in a pattern
(Baptist Press) Evangelist and well-known speaker Wade Morris died Tuesday morning (Aug. 3) at age 51 after a battle with COVID-19 and pneumonia. Morris, a graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, worked full time as a traveling evangelist, speaking at hundreds of youth events, conferences and camps each year, including
Presented without comment, other than to say that the music in the background isn’t added by anyone; that’s the musicians adding that in by design. Also we hate everything about this clip. From his January 21, 2021 sermon. h/t Christian Nightmares
A pastor in Chicago has finally put some meat on the bones of reparation theology; doing what so many others that have demanded it have refused to do: give specific examples of what ought to be done and what sort of measures ought to be practically implemented by the government
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