At least eight churches in Grand Rapids, Michigan, home of the CRCNA (Christian Reformed Church in North America), have announced they are departing and disaffiliating from the denomination on account of its recent anti-LGBTQ stance, including Kristin Du Mez’s own congregation. These churches include “Grace Church, Calvin Church, Church of
Richard B. Hays, the influential New Testament author and scholar, passed away Friday morning from pancreatic cancer at the age of 76. A former professor of the New Testament at Duke Divinity School, Hays is perhaps best known for his 1996 book “The Moral Vision of the New Testament.” It
MCC Toronto is a “vibrant and progressive church rooted in the Christian tradition and the 2SLGBTQ+ community” that is “open and welcoming to everyone, and a Human Rights Centre that is fiercely committed to social justice,” at least according their website. Led by “non-binary” impastor Rev. Deana Dudley, “transgendered woman” Rev.
A New Hampshire man is claiming responsibility for smashing a Baphomet statute set by The Satanic Temple outside the NH State House, crediting his Orthodox beliefs for the impetus of its destruction. He writes on Facebook: I don’t think anything will come of this legally, but if anything does I
Todd Bentley, the famous false teacher and wolf extraordinaire (see endnotes), has unveiled his latest scheme to capitalize on his recent emergency hospital stay, claiming that his experiences gave him the power and authority to “cancel death” and cure terminal illnesses. Six weeks ago, Bentley was taken to the hospital by
Pastor Joe Campbell of Morningside Church, the ecclesiastical arm of Jim Bakker’s Morningside Ministries in Blue Eye, MO, has been accused of sexually abusing at least four women, according to recent police reports filed in Tulsa, Oklahoma. According to recent reports at the Wartburg Watch (whose reporting is linked in
Independent Federal MP Andrew Wilkie, who famously made public a trove of 17,000 financial documents related to Hillsong Church and detailed their wild financial mismanagement, is coming down hard against the regulatory body overseeing Hillsong College, calling their tepid and lenient response to the megachurch “pathetic” while calling for other
Gospel recording artist Kirk Franklin has done a ‘year in review’ of his performances in 2024, directly responding to and offering his appraisals of the highs, lows, and all manner of controversies he was embroiled in over the last 12 months. In particular, he responds to the instance he was
A beloved youth pastor was killed this past weekend after being fatally bitten on the neck by a shark. Luke Walford, 40, was the pastor at the Cathedral of Praise church in Rockhampton, Queensland. He was spearfishing with family members when an unknown shark species attacked him. He sustained a
Zondervan recently released a new study Bible called “The Upside-Down Kingdom,” (UDKB), edited by Preston Sprinkle, and it is a nasty piece of subversive work. Sprinkle is the co-founder of Revoice, President of the Center for Faith, Sexuality, and Gender, and host of Theology in the Raw podcast. No stranger
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