The church growth and elder-rule movements came from different directions, but both helped redefine pastors less as preachers of the Word and more as institutional leaders. Once authority was rooted primarily in governance, women preaching could be tolerated so long as men retained organizational control.
In taking on the supposedly urgent debate over evangelical sterilization, Christianity Today imports anti-Protestant sexual ethics, trying its best to sterilize marriage itself.
Sadie Robertson Huff says she was called by God to preach.
Not vaguely. Not loosely. Not in the softened language of “sharing” or “encouraging.” Preach. She wasn’t.
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
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