Jeff Durbin and Apologia Are About to Get SLAPPed
March 5, 2026
A defamation lawsuit against critics reveals deeper problems with Apologia’s hard-shepherding culture
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.
American evangelicalism has not simply changed its methods in the last three decades — it has quietly changed how it knows truth. That epistemological shift isn’t abstract. Instead, it can be traced in the trajectory of public ministers like Kirk Cameron. In 2001, a 31-year-old Cameron — already a well-known
Cameron’s label, “The debate Christians are afraid to have” could not have been a more fitting description, considering he was clearly afraid to have an actual debate.
For more than six hours, Christian apologist Mike Winger methodically dismantled the public ministry of self-styled prophet Shawn Bolz, joining ministries like ours that have been exposing Bolz for years. The exposé was exhaustive. The documentation was overwhelming. The conclusion is unavoidable. Bolz’s so-called prophetic gift was not supernatural revelation,
Below is a sneak peek of this INSIDER content. When a well-known Christian says he has changed his view on hell (or any other major doctrine), the script is almost always the same. He explains that he was taught one thing all his life. He says he simply opened his
The Daniel Keene case shows how extra-biblical “charges,” opaque processes, and elder overreach corrode Baptist polity. Historic Baptist church discipline is meant to protect the purity of the church and restore sinners through clear, biblical charges and a congregational process (Matt. 18:15–17; 1 Cor. 5). What happened to Texas business
For those of us who grew up in conservative evangelicalism, Our Daily Bread booklets were a staple of our church experience. The little pamphlet-sized devotionals, distributed since 1956, had Bible verses and insightful articles on a wide array of Christian topics. I still have a stack of late 80’s and
Earlier this week, Trinity Broadcasting Network shared a promo for their TBN+ app by encouraging folks to listen to a Christmas sermon by Joel Osteen. Based on his 2022 sermon Divine Detours, rank heretic Joel Osteen macrodoses his herd of goatlings with spiritual strychnine by allegorizing Jesus’ birth to make Christmas
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