Still reeling from the latest scandal to hit Hillsong, where a bombshell report alleges that the church hid nearly $80M dollars from financial regulators, used church funds to enrich the leaders financially, and committed tax fraud and embezzlement, Brian Houston flew down to the United States to meet up with Steven Furtick
Pastor Michael Todd leads Transformation Church (TC.) He is known for crowd surfing during his church’s worship service and spending a lot of money. In the last two years, he’s given away $3,500,000 in houses, cash, and cars, spent $65,000 to buy 168 pairs of shoes, gave $600,000 in “reparations,” and purchased $66,000,000 in real
(Midwest OutReach) A little over a week ago (Wednesday, March 8, 2023), Megan Basham asked me a question via text message. I immediately realized it would be difficult to give her an adequate response via text, so I told her I’d respond by email. As I was working on the email, it
Last week, SBC president Bart Barber continued his attacks against Southern Baptists abortion abolitionists, parroting his and the ERLC’s eternal efforts to shoot down and destroy any abolitionist resolutions or any abolitionist laws passed by the states and painting all abortion-minded women as “victims” who should not be punished for murdering their
Christian company Authentic Media LL, under fire for trademarking the phrase ‘Worship Leader” and then sending cease and desist letters to those who use it, including other Christian worship groups, have responded to criticism over their enforcement of it, claiming they are simply protecting their business interests. Authentic Media’s entities
Update, the group that trademarked it has responded to criticism, giving THIS defense. Days ago, Scot Leonard, the Worship Director at Cocalico Community Church, who runs the Rogue Worship Leader Facebook page, had his entire Facebook taken down. During the appeal process, he discovered that his page was taken down for violating community
Tim Mackie run ‘Bible Project’, a popular bible-teaching YouTube channel with over 3.5M subscribers. In a recent teaching video, Mackie offers a theology of human sexuality that seems to be a ‘Side B Revoicer Special,” which holds aberrant and unbiblical perspectives on homosexuality. The Dissenter explains: Side B Christianity is
When our favorite pink-haired charismatic “prophetess” Kat Kerr isn’t revealing how to access the ‘body parts room’ in heaven, sharing how heaven smells like pumpkin pie and where cows drive around on tractors, claiming she has a picture of thousands of lion-faced angels frog-marching chained demons across the sky in order to go to
Just a quick post to thank our followers and supporters. It’s 3:31 am, and I’ve been up for nearly three hours, working on posts and struck by the weight of responsibility and joy I feel at being able to write and do discernment work. Sometimes I’m laser-focused on a project
Andy Wood is the new pastor of the 25,000-member, 14-campus Saddleback Church, replacing outgoing purpose-driven pastor Rick Warren. Saddleback, who were recently disfellowshipped from the SBC for ordaining several pastrixes, has also come under fire for having a “Blacks Only worship service” where no white members were allowed in, so the “black
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