In a move that is nothing if not vintage Julie Roys, her YouTube channel issued a copyright strike against Protestia after we republished her publishing of police bodycam footage of Steve and Heidi Nichols talking to a Seminole County Sheriff’s deputy in May, 2025. The video in question, of course,
Recently released bodycam footage adds some clarity to the Nichols vs St. Andrew’s Chapel saga.
Steve Gaines, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention and longtime pastor of Bellevue Baptist Church in Memphis, has died following a battle with cancer. He was 68. Gaines had been placed in hospice care earlier this month as his condition worsened after being diagnosed with kidney cancer in 2023.
It now appears that the issues of church discipline, excommunication, and conflict at St. Andrew’s Chapel, Reformation Bible College, and Ligonier Ministries have less to do with theological concerns and more to do with personal conflict over the serious issue of sexual abuse. In response to swirling questions, speculation, and
Over the past year, a series of developments involving Saint Andrew’s Chapel, Ligonier Ministries, and Reformation Bible College has drawn attention in Reformed circles. Following the disciplinary trial of senior pastor Burk Parsons, the chapel’s departure from the Presbyterian Church in America, and the excommunication of Stephen Nichols, questions are
A defamation lawsuit against critics reveals deeper problems with Apologia’s hard-shepherding culture
Despite his attempt to recast himself as Tim the Toolman Pastor™, Mark Driscoll remains an insufferable narcissist, church discipline runaway, and unregenerate fake “pastor.”
In November 2022, we argued that something deeper than isolated bad takes was emerging inside the charismatic online apologetics world.
The Supreme Court declined to hear McRaney v. North American Mission Board, leaving the Fifth Circuit’s ruling intact. The result – despite the claims by the North American Mission Board (NAMB) – may signal the death of the Southern Baptist Convention’s primary funding mechanism – the Cooperative Program – with
For nearly a decade, many Southern Baptists have seen McRaney v. NAMB as a narrow legal dispute between one former state convention executive and a national SBC entity. It is not.
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