Category: Evangelical Stuff

Rick Warren Says Denying Women the Pastorate is Racist and Saddleback Will Appeal Disfellowship to Fight the ‘Inquisition’

March 12, 2023

Perhaps no single individual has done as much to stunt the spiritual growth of and sear the modern American evangelical conscience than Rick Warren. With his Peter Drucker-mentored corporatization of the church, his Schuller-inspired, man-pleasing “gospel,” and his endless ability to taint every would-be solid minister from John Piper to

Rachael Denhollander Twists the Evidence to Smear MacArthur and Biblical Counseling

March 8, 2023

In the wake of The Gospel Coalition memory-holing Josh Butler’s article sexualizing Christ and the Church, Abuse Incorporated and its “expert” figurehead Rachael Denhollander jumped on the opportunity to blame Butler’s icky article on – you guessed it – John MacArthur and biblical counseling. Denhollander reminded her Twitter followers that

“Not Heterosexuality, But Holiness” Is An Unnatural and Unbiblical Compromise

March 2, 2023

It is still being peddled in seemingly orthodox evangelicalism: “The opposite of homosexuality is not heterosexuality, it’s holiness.” Or plagiarizing pastors sling this line: “Do you know how I know homosexuality doesn’t send you to hell? Because heterosexuality doesn’t send you to heaven!” Consistent with the special exception in modern

SBC Credentials Committee Boots Saddleback Over Ordination of Female Pastors

February 21, 2023

The Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee followed the Credentials Committee’s recommendation to disfellowship Saddleback Church of Lake Forest, California due to the church’s ordination of women to the office of pastor, putting an end to the 18-month controversy that has raged within the convention over the Bible’s teaching versus the

SBC President Signals The Egalitarian Beginning of the End for the SBC

November 15, 2022

The President of the SBC can’t or won’t defend biblically-ordained male headship in the church. In a podcast with Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary president Jason Allen, SBC president Bart Barber failed to offer a biblical defense for the office of pastor being reserved for men beyond “the Bible says so”

Mike Winger, Allen Parr, and the Darker Side of Christian YouTube

November 8, 2022

Precisely because they have misled my people, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and because, when the people build a wall, these prophets smear it with whitewash, say to those who smear it with whitewash that it shall fall! There will be a deluge of rain, and you, O great hailstones, will

Smear Film: Jerry Falwell Jr. Caused the January 6th Riot and Ended Roe, and You’re Just Like Him

November 2, 2022

God Forbid, a tawdry, salacious, and politically-motivated smear documentary about Jerry Falwell Jr.’s fall from power was released on Hulu today, advancing the bizarre claim that Falwell was a “kingmaker” for Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential victory and that Falwell’s sins demonstrate the evil of Christians who engage with the culture.

The De-vangelism of the Southern Baptist Convention

October 16, 2022

Every week, faithful church members dutifully write checks to support the Lord’s work at their local Baptist church, and thousands of these churches turn over a percentage of this giving to the para-church cooperation known as the Southern Baptist Convention. The bulk of this funding goes to support international evangelism/church

Weak Pastors Praise NAMB After They Get Caught in Bed with Heretics

October 13, 2022

No sooner did Kevin Ezell backpedal away from the North American Mission Board’s heresy partnership with He Gets Us than the usual chorus of SBC platform simps congratulated him for his “leadership.” The rot is deep in the SBC.

Platform Grifters Case Study: The Hardings

August 22, 2022

We try very hard at Protestia not to punch down – that is, publish articles targeting those who carry little or no actual influence in evangelicalism. Yet occasionally we witness behavior and theology from online characters that is worth discussing as a demonstration of a growing or novel problem affecting