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So who are all the She/Her, They/Them, and He/Hims Speaking at Revoice?

After learning that Revoice was going to feature a practicing lesbian Roman Catholic as a speaker, we decided to see who else they would be including as part of their speaker list, wondering whether or not the fact that they got curb stomped into a slurry of blood and broken teeth by the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) 2021 General Assembly (GA) just a few months ago would have any impact on who they brought on.

During the GA, the PCA voted to adopt Overture 23, which basically said that same-sex attractions in and of themselves are sinful, not just same-sex acts. Furthermore, any man who makes his sexuality part of his identity and affirms he’ll always struggle with same-sex attraction, denying the efficacy of a new heart upon one’s sexuality and denying that “such were some of you” is the normative expectation for Christians who are being sanctified by Christ, is not qualified to be Pastor. Naturally, this caused much “REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE”-ing from proponents of Revoice, who take a diametrically opposing position.

One thing that stood out to us was the number of people who have their personal pronouns as part of their mini biography pages. And not just for those who identify as transgendered, but rather the sodomites got in on the action too, ensuring that the biological woman, who identifies as a woman, and looks like a woman, wants to be called “she/her” lest they awkwardly get referred to in masculine terminology for no reason whatsoever.

We also listed a few people who count themselves as part of non-Christian sects, for posterity, and also truth be told, just skimmed half the profiles when we compiled this list. They may have given/listed their personal pronouns elsewhere, but truth be told we didn’t want to invest that much effort hunting them down, and so just pulled from the list itself, with one exception.

  • Elizabeth Black: According to her Revoice Bio: “Elizabeth Black (she/her) has served as an evangelist and minister in New York City for almost 10 years.”
  • Gregory Coles: None listed, but wrote in 2018: “I’ll argue in this paper that the most biblical response to transgender people’s pronouns is a posture of unequivocal pronoun hospitality. That is, I believe that all Christians can and should use pronouns that reflect the expressed gender identities of transgender people, regardless of our views about gender identity ethics. If a person identifies herself to you as “she,” I hope you will consider it an act of Christ-like love to call her “she” out of respect, whether or not you believe that the way she expresses her gender identity is honoring to God.”
  • Kat Laprairie: Kat was born a woman, identifies as transgender, and likes to use she/her or they/them pronouns
  • Aaron Munson: According to Revoice bio, Aaron Munson (he/him) is a licensed school counselor and a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) who provides virtual counseling for people who are struggling to reconcile their faith and their sexuality/sexual orientation.
  • Liz Munson: According to her Revoice bio:  “Liz Munson (she/her) has been in a journey of reconciling her faith and sexuality over the past decade. After 12 years of marriage and 2 kids, she and Aaron found out they were in a “mixed oriented marriage.”
  • Ben Schulke: According to Revoice bio: “Ben Schulke (he/they) lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan with his wife Lauren.”
  • Preston Sprinkle: None listed. Tweeted out support of the aforementioned Gregory Coles article, saying people should practice “pronoun hospitality.” (BTW, Someone should ask him if he’d agree to call a friend’s mistress “his wife” if that’s what the friend asked, and also how would that be any different.)
  • Eve Tushnet: None listed. She is a professing lesbian who is also a practicing Roman Catholic. We wrote about her already here.
  • Gregg Webb: None listed. Interestingly, he is Eastern Orthodox and identifies as a homosexual man, two things which make his Christianity suspect.

Revoice still plans on adding more speakers, and we will update this list with all the she/hers and they/thems accordingly.

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PCA Pastor Promotes Pastrix Daughter’s Pro-Abortion Message

We want to talk about “Pastrix” Michelle Higgins and the PCA that made her. We’ve covered the Truth’s Table host a bit in the last few weeks, particularly how she is pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ, and has crafted a theology developed to promulgate the queering of the Trinity. While it might be easy to surmise that she’s just some random pastrix who cut her teeth on liberalism and progressivism since she was a child, and now is all grown up, she is anything but.

Michelle grew up within the Presbyterian Church of American, which is by and large a conservative denomination (contrasted to those devils at the PCUSA). Her Father is Mike Higgins, who is the senior pastor at the PCA South City Church St. Louis, while also being a professor and administrator at Covenant Theological Seminary—which is a PCA denominational school. In fact, it was in that very same school that she earned her M. Div.

Before she became senior pastrix, she was on staff at South City Church as a “Director of Worship and Outreach.” It was during her tenure there that she sought to host an event through her organization “Faith and Justice” at her church in 2019, where she invited an openly lesbian speaker to preach. Once this was discovered, South City, after sustained fire and criticism, announced they would no longer be holding it, and Michelle found another church to host it—Oak hill Presbyterian Church, an inclusive church that supports homosexuality and abortion.

This event caused quite a brouhaha in the PCA, and after enough people complained, this incident came under “investigation” by the Missouri Presbytery. This is the same presbytery that “investigated” Greg Johnson and exonerated him, and basically concluded “no harm, no foul.”

Shortly after the controversy, Michelle was no longer on staff at South City. In the summer of 2020 Michelle became a pastor at the ultra-progressive St. John’s Church), which is part of the United Church of Christ denomination.

Pastor Mike Higgins is still her biggest fan, however, and continues to promote and praise her many acts of bible butchery. One discernment minion brought this salient fact to our attention, writing:

To scroll through Mike Higgins’ Facebook page and see his statements and reading habits shows that Michelle is not rebelling against the teaching she received from her father but following in his footsteps and taking his teaching further! Overall, he has been somewhat ambivalent (publicly) about his daughter being a preacher. But in case there were any questions about where his allegiance is, he recently preached from her pulpit (July 25, 2021).

After learning of her calling [by Satan no doubt] to lead St John’s church, Mike Higgins likewise sent her congrats on Facebook:

Then when Michelle Higgins appeared on ABC’s Soul of a Nation promoting abortion as a form of “Reproductive Justice” her father likewise gave her a shout out on Twitter:

He gave her a similar shoutout after she gave an interview with NPR where she voiced her support for the LGBTQ community.

It’s hard not to surmise that he shares her views, given what he said a few years ago as well.

Our researcher further explained more ties that Michelle has:

Michelle has gained a following outside of St. Louis through her Truth’s Table podcast and social media activism. This is known in many PCA circles. For instance, both Michelle and her father have been promoted, protected, and (in some cases) platformed by woke PCA leaders. One notable example of this can be seen in a series of leaked email from the National Partnership (NP) leader Mike Khandjian. These leaked NP emails mention the need to defend Michelle for her statements on the Truth’s Table podcast and a hearty promotion of that podcast to others. 

[Note for context: The National Partnership is a “secret” invite-only group of left leaning PCA pastors and elders created to guide voting and invigorate left-leaning pastors to be involved in PCA denominational politics. It seems to be headed by James Kessler and Mike Khandjian, although no official list of leadership is available.] 

While Higgins is no longer affiliated with the PCA, her biggest cheerleader is. He and other theological malcontents, while still reeling from the Revoice curb stomp that took place a few months ago at the 2021 PCA General Convention, are bound and determined to continue pushing the PCA away from Christ and into the open arms of their father the devil.

Editor’s Note: Bonus rant by Higgins when she got mad on her show that some people believed women couldn’t be pastors:

What does that word mean? What does the word ordainable mean? It literally means possesses a penis. It does not mean is currently in seminary, has graduated with an M. Div., and has gone before a licensure committee. Ordainable means that the person is able to be set to the practice of potentially becoming a church leader.

And specifically in some denominations church leaders may only be male and therefore when you whittle it all down that word is how we live out a theology that we have proof-­texted to death, to twist and to turn, in order to re-­erect a wall that God, I believe, tore down in his flesh.

Jesus, in his male body, tore down a dividing wall that now allows me to be just as complete as a woman, and yet in my own context no one will hear me unless maybe I develop and design a penis­-shaped microphone cause if all you need to have is a penis in order to be heard then maybe we should have a line of penis microphones. Because it is all that you need to have to pass out communion, to take up the offering, to shake hands with the visitors when they come in.

[Editor’s note: Although the qualifications for an elder, including a pastor, do include being a man, it includes MUCH more. For a complete list, please consult 1 Timothy 2-3, and Titus 1 as starting points.]

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Ed Litton on Podcast: ‘I didn’t do this, what I did, what it appears I did – I don’t think it’s exactly what actually I did…I had permission, which I think means it’s not plagiarism…the Lord’s forgiven me…and we’re moving on…’

Southern Baptist President Ed Litton continued to deny plagiarism charges on a podcast released last week, saying he did nothing wrong, then claiming that he’s been forgiven and just wants to move on.

Appearing on episode 144 of the Potluck Podcast, the hosts ask him about the plagiarism incidents that have dogged from immediately after his election, when it was revealed that despite having a whole preaching team around him made up of 6-8 men that help him prepare sermons and do research, he had been plagiarizing his recent sermon series from outgoing SBC President and Summit Church pastor J.D. Greear.

Up to this point, Litton has denied wrongdoing, claiming he had permission from Greear to copy his outline and a few illustrations, but it did not stop there. Subsequent investigations have revealed that going back to at least 2012, Litton has been plagiarizing sermons from a other pastors, such as Tim Keller.

It also was not just a few brilliant points he was borrowing, but rather Litton would frequently copy large chunks of stories, prayers, and illustrations verbatim. When the story first broke at our sister site Reformation Charlotte, it was said that he copied one sermon. We have since found a smorgasbord of plagiarized sermons. Even his co-pastor plagiarized Greer. In fact, even his wife Kathy was privy to some plagiarism.

The fact that Litton has treated his preaching in such cavalier fashion is not wholly unexpected, as he has been known to tell a few whoppers. Litton admits that he used to lie to people all the time when asked how on it took him to write sermons, and just last year Litton claimed that only men preached at his church, and then it was revealed that women preached over 15 sermons at his church, representing 8% of sermons in some years.

During the Podcast he is asked, “But there have been some voiced concerns regarding your preaching, even calls for you to resign, not just the presidency, but also at your own church. If you had just a few minutes to simply share your heart, clear the air, whatever it may be, what would you say to the Southern Baptist who may hear this and maybe even share some of those same concerns?”

His answer?

Yeah, listen, I understand why some people are concerned, I really do because of what they’re hearing. And I just, and there’s videos, and even people in my church, we’ve sat down and talked about it. And there’s publications, things being said.

So the best way I can describe, really, is most of it centers, not all but most of it centers around a Romans series that we did last year. And when we were outlining the series, you know that’s a responsible part of pastoring and preaching is if you’re going to preach the stuff, you want to outline what you’re going to cover each week. And so I was looking to do that. And I was in the process of doing that. And I remembered that my friend J.D. had already done that.

So I called him and I said, ‘can you send me a spreadsheet’ – he keeps his on a spreadsheet – ‘that shows me how you outlined it. I want to see how mine’s lining up, if I’m approaching this right.’ And in that process, he gave me permission not only to do that, he said ‘any material at all, you’re welcome to it,’ and I appreciated that.

And I had no intention of doing anything with it, except I enjoy listening to him and I enjoy how he handles certain things in teaching. So I did listen to him. And so here’s what I want to make it very clear. Like any pastor, I used his material to help me outline it. And then I (unintelligible) material after I’d done the Greek work, after I’d read my commentaries, try to get a sense of how this passage needs to be explained to my people.

And there’s a couple places in particular, where we share the same outline. And there’s a couple places in particular where I use a lot of phrases that he did. And I just want to say this, I want to be clear. I think the older you get, the more set you get in language, and you tend to rely on what you’ve used in the past. I’ve always been the guy who wants to always figure out, ‘am I really connecting with people, my people, I want them to understand this.’

I didn’t do this, what I did, what it appears that I did. I don’t think it’s exactly what actually I did.

But, the point is, when I did it, I wasn’t trying to make a name for myself. I was trying to help my people understand scripture. And I’ll be honest with you, Romans is an intimidating book for me. Now, you guys are a lot smarter than I am, it’s probably not as intimidating for you. But it was. So I did rely on that.

Here’s the problem, I had permission, which I think means it’s not plagiarism. The problem was, I didn’t, and it’s obvious that I did not tell my people exactly the source that it came from. I didn’t cite the commentaries I read either.

And so that’s what I have, I have apologized to my people, they have very warmly accepted that. Our leadership and I’ve sat down and we’ve talked about how we can correct this, and we’re in the process of correcting it.

I’m fasting [?!? -Ed.] from certain things I’ve always done in preaching, and approaching every message I preach, whether it’s at the convention, or at a location, or in our own church, I’m approaching it differently.

And, and so this is [sic] I take this very seriously. And this is what I share with my people, every week, you have trusted me for 27 years to be a man of truth. And, and so I have to tell you the truth. And if you can’t trust me, then I have no basis of leadership in this church.

And so we’re grateful for the opportunity to address it. But the other thing is, I believe the Lord has forgiven me. And I believe that the Lord is helping me learn even a stronger better way to communicate. And we’re moving on. We feel like we’re dealing with it, we can move forward.

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Litton says most of it centers around the Romans series, but he’s been doing it since 2012. What of the other pastors he has plagiarized from? Did he ask Greear in 2015 when he plagiarized part of his sermon? What about everything else other than the Romans series? How is that explained?

Litton continues to frame it as merely using the outline and then making it seem coincidental in a “great minds think alike” sort of way, and does not explain or admit to why or how he lifted large portions of the sermons.

He continues to minimize, equivocate, and obfuscate by pointing out that he didn’t cite the commentaries he used either, while also saying that it’s not plagiarism if he has permission, which is patently ridiculous.

Why did Litton need to be forgiven if he did nothing wrong?

If Litton were “grateful for the opportunity to address it,” he would have done so much earlier. He makes it sound like he’s been finally given the platform to say what’s on his mind. For months he’s had nearly an unlimited opportunity to address it and tens of thousands of people wanting him to address it, but he purposefully chose not to, and when he did only to a friendly inquisitor.

If Litton thinks this superficial revisionist history is sufficient to quell the questions, he is unfortunately mistaken.

Editor’s Note. h/t to Tom Buck, where we first saw the story, and whose tweet was copied verbatim to be the headline.

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Charismatic Prophetess Claims She Saw Walt Disney in Heaven, Despite Evidence to the Contrary

When Kat Kerr, our favorite pink-haired charismatic meme-bot and “Dr. Michael Brown-approved prophetess” isn’t weaving an unbiblical tale of witchcraft and false theology by claiming that when babies die in miscarriage, sometimes God “puts them back” in the womb, or that she has a picture of thousands of lion-faced angels frog-marching chained demons across the sky in order to go to heaven for judgment, she’s explaining that she saw Walt Disney in heaven, on account of creating Disney Land and family-friendly fun. [Editor’s note: It figures. Her theology is kind of Mickey Mouse…]

But I do know for a fact that we’ll have new ways of entertainment for whole families to enjoy. And I might as well throw this in there, (unintelligible) anybody nervous enough, but Walt Disney made it to heaven. Walt Disney made it to heaven. His whole focus, I’m just gonna mention him because he’s a great part of family entertainment. And that was his focus when he started that whole thing. So he totally heard from heaven to create a place for families to come and enjoy themselves and not have to be concerned about the profanity, that extreme violence and the other stuff that’s involved in some of those areas. [Editor’s note: She seems to have forgotten about the “gender” nonsense that Disney is currently promulgating…]

By all evidence, Disney’s faith is highly questionable. According to biographer, Bob Thomas, in Walt Disney: An American Original:

Walt considered himself religious yet he never went to church. The heavy dose of religiosity in his childhood discouraged him; he especially disliked sanctimonious preachers. But he admired and respected every religion, and his belief in God never wavered.

His daughter Sharon said of him: “He was a very religious man, but he did not believe you had to go to church to be religious. He respected every religion. There wasn’t any he ever criticized. He would not even tell religious jokes,” and his other daughter Diane said of him: “I do know that [Walt] had great respect for all faiths…My sister dated a Jewish boy for awhile with no objections from either of my parents.”

Perhaps most revealing was an article Walt Disney wrote for Roland Gammon’s in the 1963 book about prayer, Faith is a Star, just three years before he passed away, demonstrating a belief in a higher power, but nothing more.

In these days of world tensions, when the faith of men is being tested as never before, I am personally thankful that my parents taught me at a very early age to have a strong personal belief and reliance in the power of prayer for Divine inspiration. My people were members of the Congregational Church in our home town of Marceline, Missouri. It was there where I was first taught the efficacy of religion…how it helps us immeasurably to meet the trial and stress of life and keeps us attuned to the Divine inspiration. Later in DeMolay [Editor’s note: DeMolay is an international fraternal organization for young men], I learned to believe in the basic principle of the right of man to exercise his faith and thoughts as he chooses. In DeMolay, we believe in a supreme being, in the fellowship of man, and the sanctity of the home. DeMolay stands for all that is good for the family and for our country.

…thus, whatever success I have had in bringing clean, informative entertainment to people of all ages, I attribute in great part to my Congregational upbringing and my lifelong habit of prayer. To me, today, at age sixty-one, all prayer, by the humble or highly placed, has one thing in common: supplication for strength and inspiration to carry on the best human impulses which should bind us together for a better world.

Barring a death bed confession, whatever Disney has said publicly about his religious beliefs should give no confidence in his salvation.

h/t to Revealing Truth

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Whistleblower Website Scuttled by Team Clayton Jennings: Find Photo Evidence HERE. Warning: GRAPHIC IMAGES

Please proceed with caution, as we do not desire anyone to stumble into sin with either lust or unbridled anger.

Pulpit & Pen has been informed by Rabbi Christopher Frederickson that allegedly “Clayton Jennings’ has somehow taken down his website.”

It seems Jenning’s has attempted to hack both Pulpit & Pen’s website and Jordan Hall’s Facebook page, albeit unsuccessfully. Most of Jennings’ victims have also had their accounts hacked (some successfully) within the last week or so. P&P has had our tech support on the phone with his victims, helping them ensure necessary cyber-security safeguards.

The following images below, which have been removed from the website of Rabbi Frederickson, are GRAPHIC IN NATURE:

Notice his response to the alleged minor.

The website of the Rabbi has been replete with hatred and unbelievable filth from Clayton Jennings’ rabid followers. See below.

Replies from some of Clayton Jennings’ followers

Until the Rabbi’s website is up, you’ll be able to see the comments sent to the 16 year-old girl, according to his website and her parents.

In recent weeks, Jennings admitted to adultery and sexting (complete with nude photos) in his Spoken Word poetry, released AFTER the Rabbi’s original report that he’s been continuing in this ongoing behavior.

After his misdeeds and clergy misconduct are made public, Jennings then references his ‘mistakes’ in his Spoken Word videos, and claims transparency once his sins have already been uncovered.

Reportedly, Jennings asks for nude photos in return, in order to keep the women from coming forward.

It appears that as Clayton Jennings has branded himself as “standing up against bullies” and kids being picked upon, while he is engaging in this behavior behind the scenes.

[Editor’s Note; Because it is the Rabbi’s Sabbath, he was not available today for full comment. Some reports indicate that Jennings has attempted a copyright claim on certain photos which would mean, in theory, they indeed belong to him]

Fair warning: No additional information has been provided from Rabbi Frederickson on the alleged removal of the posted photographs by Clayton Jennings. The alleged victim is a juvenile, therefore no additional information is available.

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DC Comic Artist Confirms: Superman is now a Homosexual

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Superman is going gay, according to DC Comics artist Ethan Van Sciver during an interview with ComicArtistsPro Secrets on YouTube. 

They aren’t going to retcon him as they did to comic book character Robin just two weeks ago, with a bisexual storyline involving a male love interest, but rather in the same vein as when Marvel announced that Captain America was going to be gay, they are killing off Clark Kent so his homosexual son can don the suit and take over the gig of saving the world.

I just found out, I got a little bit of a scoop about what DC’s plans are. Nobody knows this yet. It hasn’t been really announced, except by me…The plan is that…Superman’s book…I guess Clark Kent is going bye-bye….Clark Kent I guess is going bye-bye and they are going to replace him with Jonathan Kent, and then they are going to announce that Jonathan Kent is gay. So Superman is effectively gay, everyone. He is gay.

In 2015 Batman’s on/off-again love interest Catwoman was written into being bisexual. Batwoman was shown to be a lesbian in 2006. Characters like Bluebird, Barbara Kean, and Tabitha Galavan have been written as bisexual, and several Batmanman villains like the Riddler, The Penguin, Poison Ivy, Joker, and Harley Quinn have also been in LGBTQ storylines and depicted as bisexual.

Basically, everyone is a flaming sodomite because that’s the way the world is now.

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Bethel Pastrix Spouts Open Theism: ‘God doesn’t know our exact future’

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Jenna Winston is a “pastrix” at Bethel Church in Redding, California and also the proprietor of the “Heartscaping” ministry. Her testimony is that she is a diagnosed schizophrenic who spent the first 40 years of her life going through psych ward and holds a “multiple abuses, mental illness” diagnosis, extreme drug addictions, and has multiple suicide attempts, all before winding up at a faith-based recovery program where she claims to have a radical encounter with Jesus that “forever changed the trajectory of her life.”

Finding freedom from her demons, she calls herself a “Seer Prophet” and does counseling through her Heartscaping ministry and “specializes in inner healing, prophetic deliverance, identifying and cultivating your spiritual gifts, and restoring your full identity.” One distinctive is that unlike most people shilling their wares, hers are unusually upscale in terms of their price, with a typical course video being $129.

In a conversation with Shawn Bolz, [Editor’s note: Shawn: if you’re reading this, we know something about you. We can’t release it yet until we get our hands on a particular document that we know is out there, but we want you to know that we know], Winston explains how God knows a bit about us but doesn’t know our future.

True deliverance is about – there are so many things that happen in our lives all the time that God never planned. God doesn’t make bad things happen but he will take the assaults from the enemy, who but he doesn’t want us happy and full of life and walking in our identity and we’re all gifted, we’re all called, well, have epic, you know, whatever, and so he doesn’t know our exact future but he does know our callings. He does know our giftings. And he’s just gonna hit you opposite all the time you know? And we get stuck in ‘blame and this and that’ and believing all of it to where we don’t even know our identity, right? So what does it look like instead of dissecting everything wrong with you. [Editor’s note: You may recall that God is All-knowing, and there has never been a time in history that He has not known or has had to learn anything.]

This sort of theology plays hand in hand with Bethel Leader Bill Johnson’s view that God doesn’t control everything and some things happen beyond his control, saying a few months ago:

Johnson: My understanding in this area creates the greatest challenges for me…my approach is that God doesn’t control everything.

He’s in charge of everything. And the way I’d illustrate is well, you’re a parent, or you’re in charge of your household, but you’re not in control of everything that happens, you know?

Some dish will break. Something will happen. Somebody will say something that was unkind. Those things aren’t because of your influence. They just happen because you have a household of free will.

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Survey: 60% of Born Again Christians Don’t Believe Jesus is the Only Way

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60% of born-again Christians don’t believe that Jesus is the only way to heaven, according to a new survey commissioned by Probe Ministries in their quest to determine what percentage of professing believers are pluralists.

The survey results are disturbing because the results are not derived from a generic Christian label, but rather all the participants had to confirm that they were “born-again” which includes affirming that they have 1) made a “personal commitment to Jesus Christ that is still important in their life today and 2) when asked what will happen to them after they die, affirmed “I will go to heaven because I confessed my sins and accepted Jesus Christ as my savior.”

Of this group:

  • 85% said that Jesus died on the cross “To redeem us by taking our sins and our punishment upon Himself” (10% said He threatened the stature of the Jewish leaders of the day.)
  • 71% said that while on earth, Jesus was sinless.
  • 69% said Jesus will return to this earth to save those who await his coming.

They continue:

What do Americans believe about multiple ways to heaven? And, especially what do Born Again
Christians believe? To determine who was a pluralist, we asked what the respondents thought about the
following two statements:

Muhammad, Buddha and Jesus all taught valid ways to God. Answers from Disagree Strongly to Agree
Strongly

I believe that the only way to a true relationship with God is through Jesus Christ. Answers from Disagree
Strongly to Agree Strongly

The real shocker jumping from this page is that over 60% of Born Again Christians are also pluralists.
Apparently, a majority of Born Again Christians are ignorant about the basic teachings of their faith.
Also, it is interesting and disturbing that the percentage of Born Again Christians who are not pluralistic
is almost flat across the ages from

They conclude:

Based on these results, about one-third of Born Again Christians appear to have a consistent biblical
view toward pluralism. Another third appear to be totally in line with the pluralist position. The last third
are those who want to say that Jesus is the only true path to God AND that Mohammad and Buddha also
taught valid ways to God. In church, they may say that Jesus in the only way, but out in the world they
act as if Muslims and Buddhists don’t need to know this critical truth. These individuals have an
incoherent worldview.

These are some sad results, and demonstrate the fruit of much of the modern seeker-sensitive church movement that is big on experiences and therapeutic moralistic deism, rather than deep teaching and catechesis about Christ.

h/t to The Conservative Truth for the story

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Pastrix Michelle Higgins Instructs Congregants to Reveal Personal Pronouns Before They Can Speak at Pulpit

Michelle Higgins, the senior “pastrix” of Saint John’s Church (United Church of Christ) continues to leave us vexed but unsurprised at the blasphemously progressive way she’s running her new church goat pen, this time with a series of proverbial open-handed slaps to the face of Jesus. This is being done while flying David Hammons’ Pan-African Flag, whose colors according to Black Art in America “are representative, as the red is for the blood, the black is for the people, and the green is for the natural wealth of the Motherland, Africa,” in the background.

A Prophet Gets Misgendered?

To kick things off, Higgins insists on using a unique pronunciation for the prophet Joel, proffering in her opening salvo:

My name is Michelle, I’m the pastor here. And I want to just give us some kind of grounding and opportunity for us to join together in the Word of God. So if you have your Bible app, if you have a Bible in front of you, we’re going to go to the book of Joelle, the prophet Joelle.

Now some of us just pronounced it ‘Joel.’ And that’s alright too. That’s alright (unintelligeble).  We love you anyway. I’m not trying to shade nobody. If you go to the second chapter, this actually chapters one, verse thirteen. We have an opportunity today, beloved, to lament so many spaces where Faith is the center.”

No word yet if she insists on calling the book of John “The book of Joanna,” but over the course of the scattered, aimless “sermon” she repeatedly calls the prophet “Joelle.” We’ll assume she’s just using some esoteric pronunciation rather than misgendering based on her well-established pro-queer ideology, but you really never know.

Everyone Must Reveal Personal Pronouns When Introducing Themselves in Church

After a brief scripture reading, several people come up to the front to share what the verse meant to them, with Higgins instructing them to give their personal pronouns before they speak. (Apologies for the video quality: the original feed itself was choppy.)

“Morning beloved community. My name is Andrew I use he/him pronouns….”

“Good morning. My name is Elisa. I use the ‘she’ series…”

“Hi, I’m Maggie, I’m she/her pronouns. Yeah, it’s interesting that…”

and the best:

“Good morning. My name is Heidi. she, her, whatever, I don’t know. I don’t do the pronoun things. I’m too old for that. My name is Heidi. (Editor’s Note: Hahahahahaha…)

Offer Prayers and/ Or “Positive vibes”

Pastrix Higgins forgets she is in a Christian church rather than at a festival for bygone hippies and pagans, telling the congregants:

If there are any prayer requests that people want to quickly shout out and I’ll say them from the microphone. I’ll give you all items to pray over. Or if you are up the tradition of sending positive vibes, hopes and wishes for well-being you are welcome to do that as well.

More Queer Trinity Talk

Higgins reiterates her belief that the Trinity is queer:

We believe that the body of Jesus is that forever and ever, but we believe that God is three persons. Now I invite you to email me and talk to me about my trinitarianism. Let me assure you that I’m a little more ‘the Trinity is kind of queer,’ more so ‘the Trinity will strip you negative, hang you upside down unless you believe exactly what I believe.’

Again, this woman is one-third of the podcasting trio The Truth’s Table that is lauded and platformed as an orthodox, excellent resource for faithful Christians. Higgins shares the mic with co-hosts Christina Edmondson (wife of Mika Edmondson, whose always ragging on the SBC) and Ekimini Uwan. They know exactly who she is. They know how deep the rabbit role of blasphemy goes, and all parties affirm her as a sister in Christ.

This should naturally lead you to ask: can you trust the parties that hold up her?

You all know what we think. Or at least you should by now…

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Righteous Defiance

After 4 Months of Fines, Court Order and Govt Shutdowns, Trinity Bible Chapel Finally Gets Their Building Back

Trinity Bible Chapel in Waterloo, Ontario has finally been given access back into their church building after it was seized by the government – hopefully marking the end of an ignoble period in Canadian History where faithful churches were ordered locked up and literally shut down on account of their fidelity to the scriptures and insisting that Christ, not the government, is head of the church.

The church building has been shuttered since April 30, when a judge ordered the doors locked, on account of the congregation refusing to cease gathering in person in contravention to shutdown orders, which prohibited gathering at more than 15% capacity. You can read more about that here.

Since then, the church has been meeting outside, as a condition of their access was that they must submit a COVID response plan that limits where and how they can have church services inside their building, something they have been reticent and thus far refusing to do.

Now, they have their building back.

Along with the church, they run the King Alfred Academy, a private Christian school whose mission is “To glorify God by giving children a classical and Christ-centred education that equips them for a life of learning, excellence, wisdom, discipline and virtue.” and whose vision is “to graduate generations of biblically informed young men and women who have a heart for the community, the ability to radically influence the culture for Christ, the courage to take a stand for the truth and the faith to believe that with God, all things are possible.”

Because King Alfred Academy shares a facility with Trinity Bible Chapel, that means they will likewise have access to start classes again.

The Church has not yet revealed what was the cause of them getting their building back – if they agreed to set up a COVID plan, or it was settled in the courts, though they say that an update is forthcoming.

For those who want to show support and help alleviate some of the tens of thousands of dollars in fines these pastors and elders have personally been given click on their gofundme page.