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Alex Malarkey ‘The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven’ and Mother Face Eviction From Home After Husband Evicts

Editor’s Note. Longtime readers of Protestia/ Pulpit and Pen will recognize Alex. Though the story doesn’t get into it, after Alex was paralyzed, his father (The one evicting them in the story- pray for his repentance) wrote a book about it, in the heavenly tourism genre, called ‘The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven.‘ It was all made up, and Alex and his mom recanted and retracted it. Notably, is that Justin Peters contacted Lifeway, then under the helm of Thom Rainer and Ed Stetzer, to have it pulled, and Lifeway refused to do so, much to their great shame and revealing deep character flaws. We broke the story, which went viral worldwide and forced their hand to remove it after enough pressure was put on them.

(Bellefontaine Examiner) A Huntsville mother and son pair have traversed many difficult roads together and have achieved major milestones through hard work and dedication and holding tight to their steadfast faith.

Alex Malarkey, now age 24, was paralyzed in a car crash Nov. 11, 2004, when he was 6 years old on State Route 47 near County Road 9, just days after his family had moved to the Logan County area. While the coroner was called to the scene and first responders initially thought Alex was dead, he survived a high spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury and spent about two months at then Columbus Children’s Hospital in a coma.

While adjusting to life with quadriplegia, Alex would become the first child to undergo the Christopher Reeve surgery in 2009 to have a diaphragm pacing system installed to enable him to spend time off the ventilator.

A few years later, Alex would enter high school at Indian Lake Schools, and his mother, Beth accompanied him to classes each day at school, with the duo rising very early each day and spending several hours just to get ready for school.

Their efforts paid off in a big way when Alex was named one of the valedictorians at Indian Lake High School graduating in the Class of 2016.

Now Alex and Beth are a facing monumental challenge, with legal proceedings stating they are to vacate their County Road 57 home near Huntsville by midnight Saturday, Oct. 1.

Beth’s ex-husband and Alex’s father, Kevin Malarkey, has filed an eviction notice against both Alex and Beth. Kevin owns the title to the home and now resides in Colorado. Beth has been making regular mortgage payments on the home for the last five years, she explained.

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This article was written by Mandy Loehr and published at Bellefontaine Examiner

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It’s Official. We’re Being Subpoenaed By Tyndale House, But We Won’t Give Up Our Sources

(Gideon Knox) Shortly before Christmas, Gideon Knox Group publisher, JD Hall, received a subpoena from attorneys representing Tyndale House, regarding a news story published by Gideon Knox publication, Pulpit & Pen, in 2015. The subpoena demanded that Hall be deposed in only a few days from the date of the letter. At the time, Hall was attending a Turning Point USA event in Florida, so our attorney notified Tyndale House that their date was not acceptable.

Information that was subpoenaed was in relation to the #1 news story in the world on January 14 and January 15 of 2015, regarding “The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven.” That boy, Alex Malarkey, wrote an open letter published by Pulpit & Pen, retracting the claims made by his father of his near-death experience and tale of so-called “Heaven Tourism.”

It was a black eye for Tyndale House, who not only published Malarkey’s book, but refused to pull it from the shelves when Malarkey reached out to Tyndale House through surrogates to tell them the book was false.

Shortly after our story broke, Tyndale House pulled the book. But unfortunately, it appears that Tyndale House has continued to mistreat young Alex Malarkey, who was an unfortunate victim of profit-motivated adults. The Malarkeys and Tyndale House are currently in the middle of a lawsuit, and Tyndale House continues to behave unrepentantly and as bullies to young Alex, who they have mercilessly mistreated and profit-mongered.

Hall has agreed to give Tyndale House his text and email communications with Malarkey, considering Malarkey was never a secret or confidential source. However, Tyndale House has hinted at desiring Hall’s entire Facebook data file, which contains all of his communications via Facebook Messenger.

Hall’s communications are privileged and protected by Montana’s Journalism Shield Law, which is the strongest in the nation. Available in his data file are Hall’s communications with missionaries serving in tyrannical regimes, with sex abuse and clergy abuse victims who have been sources in many different news stories, and with parishioners and Gideon Knox supporters communicating on the grounds of confidentiality.

In no uncertain terms, Gideon Knox Group will not be intimidated by Tyndale House or their attorneys. While good-faith cooperation will be given to satisfy subpoena demands regarding communication with Malarkey (again, he was not a confidential source), we will not give up our communications with others whose lives and livelihoods may be at risk.

Consider this a notice that Gideon Knox Group will, at all times, protect our confidential sources who risk life and limb to blow the whistle on corruption. If you would like to donate, all receipts from Giving Fuel in the month of February will be put toward legal defense to protect Christian journalism. You can give here.

Editor’s Note. This article was written by JD Hall and posted at Gideon Knox. Title changed by Protestia.

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SBC’s LifeWay will Sue the Pants Off Ex-President Thom Rainer After All

In the shortest cease-fire ever, LifeWay has uncrossed their fingers from behind their back and has re-upped their lawsuit against Thom Rainer after a brief detente, choosing to proceed with it rather than seeking alternative methods of arbitration. We brought you the details of this case in our Theologically Bankrupt LifeWay Halts Legal Action Against Morally Bankrupt Thom Rainer article, where we wrote:

The world’s worst organization, LifeWay Christian Resources, has taken a step back from the brink and has put a hold on its breach of contract lawsuit against the winner of the 2018 Worst Christian award, former president Thom Rainer.

LifeWay was suing Rainer for violating his non-compete clause by heading out to enjoy a multi-book, multiyear agreement with rival Tyndale Publishing House while still serving as chief advisory officer for LifeWay. The suit claims this action violated their severance deal, as it would have allegedly given Tyndale a competitive advantage.

Apparently cooler heads turned to steam after all, with Thom Rainer’s son announcing that LifeWay is not a believer in “No take-backsies” and will bring the full wrath of the arm of the law against the embattled ex-president.

The post by Sam Rainer links to a change.org petition, which has garnered about 500 digital signatures at the time of writing and explains:

“LifeWay CEO Ben Mandrell and the trustee officers decided to sue former CEO Thom Rainer without the knowledge of consent of the Board of Trustees. The immediate past trustee chairman, Dr. Jimmy Scroggins, has asked the board to withdraw the suit, but trustees have been denied the chance to meet thus far.

Tell the LifeWay trustees to seek a Biblical Solution for Life.

Tell them to WITHDRAW their lawsuit against Thom Rainer and seek resolution of the dispute OUT of court.”


The real travesty of course is that Rainer wasn’t fired and sued by the Southern Baptist Convention for his long-lived reign of theological terror, where he presided over and organization that packaged and sold a deluge of inspiringly awful material; a cornucopia of heretical trash that has run roughshod over the souls of many who turned to their offerings for guidance, wisdom, and sound biblical teaching. Page after page of theological “filthy rags” was produced and pushed under Rainer’s watch, and he made a mint doing it.

One particularly noteworthy act of scumbaggery was with the pushing of “heavenly tourism” books. Rainer was warned in emails that Alex Malarkey was recanting his book, The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, but he mocked the messenger and dismissed his concerns and continued to sell the book. When Malarkey’s Open Letter to Lifeway (originally posted on this very news site) made international news, Thom Rainer’s spokesperson at Lifeway lied and said he just heard about the book being fraudulent, and immediately pulled it down. When we released the emails showing Rainer knew much sooner and didn’t care, choosing to profit from the book anyway, Rainer simply said, “No comment.”

We will update details on this slap-fest accordingly.