The church growth and elder-rule movements came from different directions, but both helped redefine pastors less as preachers of the Word and more as institutional leaders. Once authority was rooted primarily in governance, women preaching could be tolerated so long as men retained organizational control.
In taking on the supposedly urgent debate over evangelical sterilization, Christianity Today imports anti-Protestant sexual ethics, trying its best to sterilize marriage itself.
Back in 2022, we pushed back hard against a series of high-profile “watchdog” articles, arguing that they relied less on proof and more on narrative construction. At the time, that claim was dismissed by many as partisan defensiveness. Today, with the help of modern AI analysis, those same rhetorical techniques
What began as long-whispered allegations about Michael Tait has now exploded into a $50 billion federal lawsuit, one that claims the scandal was not just reported but weaponized. The case pits the Newsboys and their business partners against major concert promoters, MercyMe, and Julie Roys of all people, raising uncomfortable
Sadie Robertson Huff says she was called by God to preach.
Not vaguely. Not loosely. Not in the softened language of “sharing” or “encouraging.” Preach. She wasn’t.
In a move that is nothing if not vintage Julie Roys, her YouTube channel issued a copyright strike against Protestia after we republished her publishing of police bodycam footage of Steve and Heidi Nichols talking to a Seminole County Sheriff’s deputy in May, 2025. The video in question, of course,
Recently released bodycam footage adds some clarity to the Nichols vs St. Andrew’s Chapel saga.
It now appears that the issues of church discipline, excommunication, and conflict at St. Andrew’s Chapel, Reformation Bible College, and Ligonier Ministries have less to do with theological concerns and more to do with personal conflict over the serious issue of sexual abuse. In response to swirling questions, speculation, and
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.”
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