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.
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.
A manufactured scandal. A perfect measuring stick.
Here we go again. Once more, we are watching the same pattern repeat itself in anti-Christian Nationalist evangelical discourse. This pattern has now emerged so predictably that it deserves to be named for what it is: crying wolf. The pattern starts with the movement (Christian Nationalism) being tagged as dangerous.
Doug Wilson’s “No Quarter November” is giving no quarter to reformed teaching on the Lord’s Supper. In “The Challenge of Child Communion,” he argues that baptized toddlers (and possibly infants?) should receive communion. His central line is simple enough: “If the baptized child is genuinely part of the loaf, then
In the aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, evangelical beneficiaries of the late Tim Keller’s winsome approach to Christian societal engagement have put out an all-hands-on-deck call to protect the intellectual and spiritual fiefdom known as third-wayism from being torn down by Kirk-inspired pew-sitters. Fresh off of watching a brother martyred
Protestia has been covering J.D. Greear for almost a decade. Long before The Gospel Coalition began regularly publishing his essays and platforming his brand of “above-the-fray” Christianity, we were documenting the pattern that now defines his ministry. Back when this site operated under the Pulpit & Pen banner, Greear’s knack
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