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.
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
We’re posting this video compilation (at the end) and explanation to document contradictions and moral/ethical inconsistencies in how Kirk Cameron has handled public criticism following his promotion of annihilationism. We’re also publicly calling him to repent – not so much for his false and dangerous beliefs about hell, but about
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.
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.
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