During a recent episode of Christianity Today’s ‘The Bulletin,’ Editor in Chief Russell Moore ran interference for Vice President pick Tim Walz, brushing off his roiling stolen valor scandal as “ridiculous quibbles about his National Guard record.” WokePreacherTV, who brought the clip to light, notes”
No one fact-checks him on the actual controversy, that Walz:
–Inflated his rank, spending decades claiming a title (Command Sergeant Major) he received conditionally but then broke the agreement, thus reverting to his actual rank (Master Sergeant) upon retirement
–Implied he was deployed into combat for decades, calling himself “a veteran of Operation Enduring Freedom,” and leaving local and national media with the impression that he served in Afghanistan/Iraq (then never asking them to correct their articles)
Both of these facts are textbook examples of stolen valor, lying to seem more impressive in the public eye and advance his political career. This is also potentially a crime, per the Stolen Valor Act Of 2013.
He note sthat “For all the carping Moore does about Trump and telling the truth, you can see just how important it is to him when the shoe is on the other foot.”
Russell Moore calls Tim Walz's stolen valor scandal "ridiculous quibbles about his National Guard record" on Christianity Today's "The Bulletin" podcast.
No one fact-checks him on the actual controversy, that Walz:
In a stunning and unexpected turn of events, Brent Leatherwood is back at the helm of the ERLC, with the man who orchestrated his ousting resigning.
Whereas a press release yesterday revealed: “In accordance with our bylaws, the executive committee has removed Brent Leatherwood as president. Further details, as well as plans for the transition, will be provided at our September board meeting,” a new updated one “formally retract the press release which was sent yesterday,” reading:
According to the Baptist Press, ERLC executive board members say board Chairman Kevin Smith acted alone in announcing the kicking-out of Leatherwood, which violated the entity’s bylaws. The is procedural mistake is is something Smith admits to in a since-deleted tweet.
Jon Whitehead (@jrwhitehead) found the suggestion that Smith acted alone puzzling, writing on X: “Well, I’m having trouble understanding how this is possible. If Smith didn’t have two supporters, there was no action. But the ERLC’s first African American board chair appears to be out, and the 6 person committee is at 4. Baptists deserve transparency. Who’s in charge?”
Following the initial outing, former ERLC president Russell Moore, who had spent the last decade as a stain on the SBC before leaving two years ago, screamed bloody murder at the fact that his mentee was expelled, even going so far as to shamelessly use the murder of children at the Covenant school as a card to pull on the heartstrings. (Leatherwood’s children were students there the day Audrey Hale shot it up) Moore e also seemingly suggested that Smith, and/or the alleged attempted coup was evil and stupid.
According to Megan Basham, despite Moore no longer being a Southern Baptist, he rallied secular progressives in the left wing media to raise a stink and bring their pressure to bear on the ERLC:
“The New York Times editorial board, and CNN, at the behest of Russell Moore, went into overdrive to object to Leatherwood’s removal. So did religion news service, an outlet funded by a hard left LGBTQ foundation that has promised to reform Christian doctrine on sexuality, no matter how conservative, to make it affirming of homosexuality. |
Now he is reinstated and the board chair (a never trumper btw) who made the decision is removed. It is incredibly evident to everyone now who the ERLC answers to.
This entity, that is paid for by Southern Baptist tithes, yet represents the secular media, the federal government, and hard left secular foundations to southern Baptists needs to be abolished.
Tucker Carlson continues to host a series of prominent Christian guests on his show, including Doug Wilson earlier this week. In a new segment, Carlson had on author and journalist Megan Basham, discussing the recent anti-Chrstian Nationalist flick ‘God & Country’ that bombed at the box office and featured the who’s who of bad faith liberals, including Jemar Tisby, David French, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Phil Vischer, Skye Jethani, Russell Moore, and these two raging pagan below.
In the segment, the two discuss the influence of these two men and the shenanigans they’re up to. Relating specifically to the film, Basham breaks it down:
They are calling evangelicals, particularly evangelicals who engage in the political process, a “threat to democracy.” And I think that’s the important thing to know. (Evangelicsals) are 32% of the American electorate. The Atlantic quite rightly called them in 2021 America’s most powerful voting block, so they’re right about that; they are essentially the only obstacle that we still have to the leftwing agenda. If you remove them you removed all the brakes.”
There’s been a very deliberate effort, and this film is part of it, but it is just a drop in the bucket to be quite frank of an entire cottage industry that is saying if these people, these evangelicals continue to engage in the public process, to try to influence their neighbors through their vote, through free association, through using their free speech by ‘get out the vote’ efforts -anything like that- that’s dangerous and scary and that’s very much what you saw with this film.
I mean, it is over the top I’m not going to do it the justice of pretending like it presents anything like a coherent intellectual argument, it doesn’t…
Basham continues:
I mean there’s been an entire cottage industry of books from staff writers at the Atlantic, from Russell Moore, who is in this film himself claiming to speak for the sober-minded, non-politically idolatrous Christians which, you know, that in itself, given how political someone like Russell Moore who is the editor of Christianity Today himself is, is hugely ironic….Russell Moore is absolutely a political actor in a much more deliberate and well-funded way than any of the people that this movie is criticizing.
Carlson offers that, from his prescient perspective, Moore is “paid to subvert American traditional Christianity on behalf of the Democratic party.” Hearing this, Basham takes that balls and runs with it. Have a watch:
With less than nine months until the 2024 U.S. Presidential election, political operatives of all stripes are hard at work using all means of persuasion to push the electorate to vote for their candidate. In early 2023, Protestia reported on the launch of The After Party, a left-wing political indoctrination campaign produced under the guise of a church small group curriculum. The After Party is the initiative of Redeeming Babel and its leftist founder Curtis Chang, who produced the material in partnership with Christianity Today’s editor-in-chief Russell Moore and New York Times Columnist David French.
The curriculum is designed to make conservative Christians doubt their political convictions and cast aspersions on anyone who would say that the truth on issues like abortion can be readily ascertained through scripture.
Chang, French, and Moore would rather have Christians believe that all political issues are so complex and convoluted, that a faithful Christian must seek to find common ground with political opponents and leave the complex and controversial issues of politics to “experts”, like French, Moore, Chang, and their secular-leftist counterparts.
Attempts to gain political power and enact laws that reflect Biblical values by Christian conservatives like U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson are rhetorically slapped down with the labels of “Political Idolatry” and “Christian Nationalism.” Chang, French, and Moore preach a brand of religious pluralism that seems to trust secularists and leftists over Christian leadership in what would best be described as an ill-conceived left-wing pluralist pietistic caricature of Biblical Christianity.
The After Party was recently placed under renewed scrutiny, as investigative reporting by Megan Basham uncovered that production of the curriculum was funded by secular leftist organizations, including Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ New Pluralists Project, One America Movement, and the Hewlett Foundation. These organizations that funded The After Party simultaneously funded numerous leftist causes, including LGBTQ awareness, efforts to expand access to abortion, and “gender-affirming care” for youth.
The After Party released a statement attacking Basham’s report as containing “inaccuracies and misleading insinuations”. The organization was especially concerned that Basham described the curriculum as “a Bible study” when they viewed their material as a “six-part digital course designed for individuals and small groups to experience, within or outside of a local church.”
While Basham’s reporting focused on the secular progressive organizations that bankrolled the propaganda in The After Party, many conservative Christians, pastors, and elders are unaware that their churches are currently paying for subscription services that pipe leftist political propaganda like The After Party into the homes of their entire congregation. Right Now Media advertises itself as “the world’s largest video-streaming library of Biblical Resources.” The Christian media giant has partnered with more than 25,000 churches to provide what they describe as a “library of over 20,000 Biblically-based videos.”
Right Now Media Subscribing Churches pay monthly subscription fees ranging from $154.99 for a church of 101 average attendees, to $1,509.99 for a church of 5,000 attendees. A large portion of Right Now Media content is targeted at church small groups, which also happens to be the explicitly self-stated target audience of The After Party:
“The After Party does the heavy lifting to support local leaders. By presenting national trusted evangelical voices, local leaders do not have to take all the fire by themselves. They only need to sponsor this curriculum into their small group communities, and let us make the case….. The curriculum does the complex – but absolutely necessary – theological work of reframing Christian political identity from today’s divisive partisan options….In today’s political environment, faithfulness to this Biblical ‘how’ of political engagement will shine as a radical alternative to both the Right and the Left.”
While The After Party criticized Megan Basham for characterizing its curriculum as a “Bible study”, Right Now media markets the curriculum as part of its package of “Biblically-based videos” for church small groups, and describes the course as “advancing a Christ-centered political identity”. How can one accurately describe what it means to be Christ-centered without delving into the scriptures?
Right Now Media’s 2023 For the Health of the Nation curriculum partnered He Gets Us Campaign apologist Ed Stetzer with National Association of Evangelical’s President Walter Kim to produce another piece of leftist political propaganda. ‘For the Health of the Nation’ functions as an ideological companion piece to The After Party. Stetzer and Kim label anything deemed politically divisive as “political idolatry”, lean heavily on the same ideology of political surrender found in The After Party, and equivocate on social issues by labeling them “complex”.
For Black History Month 2024, Right Now Media partnered with The And Campaign, a leftist political organization led by democratic political strategist and slavery reparations advocate Justin Giboney to present How I Got Over, a documentary on the origins of the Black Church. How I Got Over purports to “debunk the misconception that orthodoxy is a white western construct.” Promotional material for the series features Marxist theologian and leftist politician Cornel West and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who denied various foundational truths of the Christian faith, including the virgin birth, resurrection, the trinity, and substitutionary atonement.
The Right Now Media landing page for the series includes direct links to the And Campaign website, where Christians are urged to “become advocates against political violence”, by politically advocating for The And Campaign platform of social welfare programs, the end of voter ID laws, the implementation of civil rights laws that protect LGBTQ identifying people as a protected class, and a commitment to religious and ideological pluralism. The organization’s platform is aligned with much of the Democratic party platform.
Right Now Media’s content on politics in a presidential election year has a demonstrable left-wing bias, and political operatives like Curtis Chang, David French, Russell Moore, Ed Stetzer, Walter Kim, and Justin Giboney are actively exploiting the content pipeline, in an effort to convince conservative Christians that they must compromise their political convictions and give power over to secular progressives for the sake of “principled pluralism.” Many conservative churches unknowingly support this effort by paying subscription fees that support this content. The most concerning aspect of Right Now Media’s political influence is the fact that many congregants will receive the messages from these propaganda campaigns as a form of “Biblical truth”, since they are tagged as “Biblically-based videos” with a tacit stamp of approval from the church that provides access to the subscription.
Months after former ERLC President and current Editor of Christianity Today Russell Moore joined forces with David French, who recently came out in support of gay marriage and child genital mutilation, and Curtis Chang, who launched the website ‘Christians and the Vaccine’ where he routinely shamed Christians for refusing to get vaccinated to launch ‘The After Party” a teaching curriculum to educate Christians on how to have a proper view of politics, we have begun to see the rotten fruit of their ministry endeavor.
At The Evangelical Covenant Church’s Midwinter 2024 Conference, Curtis Chang reveals that the purpose of “The After Party” is to take the “bullseye” off pastors by moving political teaching from the pulpit to small groups, so that pastors can share their political beliefs without congregants getting mad at them for it.
“It’s tempting to think, oh god, I’ve got to preach the sermon, the sermon that will like, you know, reframe everything, solve all my problems. And that turns out to be, for most pastors, a really flawed process because the Sunday morning sermon is actually a really bad way to deal with something like politics.
It’s one-to-many communication. It’s limited. People are bound to misunderstand even a small thing you say. People will filter what you’re saying through their existing political biases. In 30 minutes, I guarantee you, if you go up on Sunday morning in most congregations and you try to preach the one sermon on politics that you haven’t been preaching on for a long time, your Monday morning inbox is going to be an ugly scene.
And that’s honestly why most pastors or many pastors don’t preach on politics on Sunday morning because they instinctively know ‘my Monday morning inbox is going to look awful if I do that.’ So the challenge we need is to give churches and pastors a way to head in towards healthy Christian politics that doesn’t force them to preach this magical Sunday morning sermon that will solve everything.
And The After Party is our attempt to do that so that you don’t have to do all the heavy lifting and also, frankly, you don’t have to take the bullseye, right?
You don’t have to take the bullseye, right? Because this way, if you run The After Party in your small group community, in your Bible studies and so forth like that, then if people get mad, they get mad at Curtis, Russell and David. They get less mad at you. You can have plausible deniability, right?
You could just say, ‘Hey, you know I don’t agree with everything these guys say, but I think they’re worth listening [to].’ That’s the classic move, you know, you do make as a pastor, right? To, uh, you want to inject something but, you know, not have to take all of the shots for it, which you shouldn’t have to take all the shots for. That should be part of our job, is to do that. This is, that’s the partnership here.”
Curtis Chang says the purpose of "The After Party" is to take the "bullseye" off pastors by moving political teaching from the pulpit to small groups.
"If people get mad, they get mad at Curtis, Russell + David. They get less mad at you. You can have plausible deniability." pic.twitter.com/Qf7bb29t0K
Commenting on the clip, Josh Daws notes that “This clip is representative of how many of these gospel-centered parachurch organizations work. They encourage pastors to focus narrowly on the gospel while these organizations disciple people with bad application that smuggles in leftism and egalitarianism.
The upcoming documentary “God And Country,” produced by Rob Reiner, alleges that politically active conservative Christians (all lumped together under the label “Christian Nationalism”) don’t understand True Christianity and have let politics subsume their faith. However, if you take a look at who is delivering this message, this accusation is a clear case of DARVO (an acronym for “deny, attack, and reverse victim and offender”).
To a person, the film’s talking heads all display eye-socket logs of theological compromise in service of politics. In this series of articles, you will see the “experts” of “God And Country” are either firmly outside Christianity in theology and practice or deeply compromised on basic Christian ethics.
Today, we will examine perhaps the most obscure figure seen in the G+C trailer: Sister Simone Campbell, a longtime political lobbyist who is largely unknown in the Protestant evangelical world. “Is Christian nationalism Christian?” she is heard in the preview clip. “Um, no, it isn’t,” she replies, wincing with concern.
Later in the trailer, Campbell declares, “Being a Christian is about the values of inclusion. Christian nationalism is certainly not based on the values of the gospel.” But what is her gospel? A review of Campbell’s writings and speeches will reveal a thoroughly 21st-century view of the gospel, mostly indistinguishable from Unitarian Universalism, where mysticism, unchecked empathy, and far-left politics all but erase the actual good news of Jesus Christ found in the scriptures.
Simone Campbell, Friend to the World
Sister Campbell recently stepped down from her leadership role at NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice. Among its backers were the pro-abortion, pro-queer Ford Foundation, to the tune of $350,000. Asked by Catholic News Agency (CNA) about those grants, Campbell shrugged it off as “small money” that hasn’t “changed our mission.”
She personally remains a Senior Fellow at Auburn Seminary, which is not a school that grants degrees but an organization to support “influential faith leaders who are committed to catalyzing and advancing multifaith movements for justice.” Her colleagues include non-Christians such as Linda Sarsour and Christian-identifying non-Christians such as Jacqui Lewis.
Campbell was a speaker at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2022, and she described the conference as “two days that vibrated with hope.”
Even if you don’t see any problem in these globalist, leftist organizations platforming her, we don’t need mere guilt by association to make a point about Campbell’s values. These associations give the color and setting for the content of Campbell’s ideas. In whose presence is she comfortable? Who seeks out her participation to advance their agenda among (at least nominal) Christians? And why? When we examine her beliefs, the picture becomes clear.
The “Zen Contemplative” Nun
Sister Campbell makes no effort to hide her New Age practices and beliefs, often referring to herself as a “Zen contemplative” in her own biographical blurbs. In a 2013 lecture at Union Theological Seminary, she said Zen practice “became the ground of my spirituality” after she was introduced to the mystical discipline.
In a 2015 interview for the public radio show On Being, Campbell expressed a kind of monism she discerned through Zen meditation:
Zen can be used with any content because Zen is the discipline of the meditation. And — OK, so my experience was this, of meeting, of having in my imagination the sense of a sage. Saying — inviting me to go deeper. And that — being willing to do that was the biggest gift of my life ever. And being willing to know that — how can I say this? Well, to know that we’re one body. All of creation is one body. And I’m only just a little piece of it. [emphasis added]
Several public statements suggest that she holds to a universalist or possibly panentheistic stance. While talking about a particular Zen retreat, the nun admirably recalls gaining empathy for Republican lawmakers like Eric Cantor and Mitch McConnell. However, she describes her thought process in a strange way: “What I got pushed to understand was that if I was at odds with the god in them, I’m at odds with the god in me.”
In the summer of 2020, she prayed an invocation at the Democratic National Convention, addressing her god as a generic “Divine Spirit.” A clip promoting the 2015 documentary Radical Grace (executive producer: Susan Sarandon), titled “Sister Simone Campbell challenges religious fundamentalism,” shows her say that God is present wherever a person may “find joy.” Holiness and lawfulness (derisively referred to as “the rules”) have little to do with it.
In her book Hunger For Hope: Prophetic Communities, Contemplation And The Common Good, Campbell writes at length about her Zen practice, offering her clearest denial of the exclusivity of Jesus Christ: “Spirituality is at the core of our daily lives and struggles… For me, this spirituality is rooted in the Catholic tradition, but I have come to learn that there are many ways to be open to the divine presence in our midst. In my experience, it is this divine presence that knits us together. You do not have to be Christian or Catholic for this journey. You just have to be open to a story that is bigger than your own” [emphasis added].
Note the irony of this proclamation. In G+C, Campbell is gatekeeping who is a true Christian and who is a false one. But she also clearly and publicly transgresses a core belief of Christianity, that Jesus Christ is the only way to the Father (John 14:6). Elsewhere in the book, she makes it obvious she sees this generic “divine presence” as the creator and sustainer of life (“we are hummed into existence by the Divine at every moment”), a role only ascribed to YHWH in the Bible. These statements amount to a denial that Christ is the only way to the Father, that in Jesus dwells all the fullness of deity (Colossians 2:9) and there is no deeper level of deity one can experience apart from him.
Revising Scripture, Diminishing Jesus
Also in Hunger For Hope, Campbell shares a strange anecdote about an interview with James Martin, the Jesuit priest who has been influential in Pope Francis’s embrace of queer sexualities:
He began with what he considered an easy question. He asked me to share my “favorite story of Jesus.” Usually I am very nimble in interviews, but this time I could not think of a single scripture story! We were both surprised.
Laughing, I finally responded that my community was dedicated to the Holy Spirit, so could he ask me about the Holy Spirit… His Jesuit community is dedicated to Jesus and therefore focused on the gospel story; my community focuses on Pentecost and the post-Pentecost vibrancy of the Holy Spirit alive in our world.
Campbell shrugs this episode off as an illustration of different emphases in different church organizations. However, it is part of a larger pattern of downplaying the incarnated Lord Jesus in her faith. In her public ministry, the activist does cite stories from the gospels often, though twisting their meaning into mere allegories for her social activism (more on that later). While researching her public statements, I have seen almost no mention of the cross, the atonement, or the resurrection from the dead.
In one egregious case, Campbell denies one of Jesus’s miracles recorded in scripture. She wrote a poem titled “Loaves and Fish”:
I always joked that the miracle of loaves and fish was sharing, The women always knew this. But in this moment of need and notoriety, I ache, tremble, almost weep at folks so hungry, malnourished, faced with spiritual famine of epic proportions. My heart aches with their need. Apostle-like, I whine, what are we among so many? The consistent 2,000-year-old ever-new response is this: Blessed and broken, you are enough. I savor the blessed, cower at the broken, and pray to be enough.
Looking back to G+C, obviously the film is going to do some nitpicking, particularly with charismatic preachers who have been overzealous in spiritualizing their support for Donald Trump. Those people do need correction – but not from anyone who denies the miracles of Jesus to score misandrist points.
What is the “Gospel of Inclusion”?
When not writing interpolations for the scriptures, Sister Campbell routinely twists the meaning of passages to fit her purely political paradigm.
In a 2013 op-ed for the Washington Post, she rejoiced that the newly-installed Pope Francis “seems to be loosening the bondage of fear that has held our leadership silent – and stifled the Gospel of inclusion.”
She does not clearly define that term in the article or elsewhere, though she presents a vision of the Catholic Church “welcoming everyone into the community,” particularly those of queer sexuality, and points to several Bible stories as prooftexts:
The Gospels are filled with examples of Jesus teaching us to reach out to and welcome those who have been marginalized by others. Jesus reached out to the lepers, healed the Roman occupier’s son, asked the Samaritan woman for help, and prevented the woman taken in adultery from being stoned by judgmental men.
There is a truism here. Jesus did connect to social outcasts. However, he welcomed them into a particular kingdom, a kingdom with a particular king who has a particular law and who commands a particular faith. Those who reject his rule and authority do not become part of the kingdom, no matter how hospitably we treat them. To paraphrase the film Ratatouille: Anyone from anywhere can become a Christian, but not everyone will become a Christian.
More errors are readily evident in her view of the gospel. “The gospel is about fighting for a vision,” she said in a 2018 speech. “Politics is where our gospel lives in society,” she said in 2020. “How do we carry out the gospel in our social setting? It’s through the political realm. We have to care for those who are at the margins and to change the systems that create the margins.”
The word of God instead explains that the gospel is the good news of what Jesus has done for sinners, not the possibility of what man can do for society (1 Corinthians 15:1-11). As I often explain, the problem with the social gospel or liberation theology is the same problem as Bethel or other sects that claim the gospel is incomplete without miracles and healing on command in the life of the believer.
God certainly will perform miraculous healings for his people, and he certainly will influence society through his people. Yet you could never see a single healing and you could never see a single law change, and you would still have the whole gospel if your sins are forgiven, the Holy Spirit dwells in you, and you have a sure hope of a bodily resurrection and eternal life with the Lord.
Campbell gets much more blatant with her mishandling of scripture elsewhere. “Jesus speaks of the need to be born again [John 3:3], and I have a hunch that the new birth we need to look for is this chance for politics to move away from moneyed interest towards the people’s interest,” she said in a 2015 speech.
In a 2017 address to mark Ash Wednesday, Campbell quotes 2 Corinthians 6:2, saying, ““[Paul writes] now is the day of salvation.’ Join me. I need you and, quite frankly, you need me to work together to create this day of salvation so that all are welcome.”
It’s quite obvious what’s wrong here, but let’s again take a moment to reflect. These anachronistic applications fit the pattern of her revision to the feeding of the thousands: rejecting God’s mighty works of salvation and offering a cheap replacement (man’s efforts toward utopia). She is clearly blinded to the actual power of the word of God. And yet Reiner’s film leans on her as an expert to define true Christianity.
Fully Affirming, Celebrating Pride Month
In addition to anti-Christian theology and spirituality, Campbell stands for anti-Christian ethics, clearly endorsing unrepentant sexual sin. In 2018, her lobbyist org NETWORK announced it was celebrating Pride Month. The next year, Campbell and NETWORK endorsed the so-called “Equality Act,” a direct assault on Christian conscience (e.g. forcing adoption charities to place children with queer couples) and a legal buttress for insanity like transgender athletes in girl’s sports.
In an interview for a podcast titled “Whosoever You Love,” recorded in the Human Rights Campaign’s studios, Campbell explained and defended her choice to support the bill. Show notes acknowledge the podcast was supported by the Arcus Foundation, a nonprofit led by billionaire Jon Stryker with an oddly specific dual focus: social justice for queer communities and ape conservation.
Campbell gives her full endorsement to the story of a woman who chose to live as a lesbian rather than repent (she derisively calls this “deprogramming”), gushing that her story is beautiful and inspirational:
Q: How are you able to reconcile your status in the [Catholic Church] with advocacy that can seem at odds with the perception and the hierarchy of that denomination?
Campbell: Well, for me, it’s a question of prayer and reading the gospel. And Jesus walked towards those who were suffering and included them. Welcomed them. Invited them in. And in my travels around the country, hearing the stories of the LGBTQ community, it’s anguish. It’s anguish. And the woman I lifted up at the rally that we were doing, or prayer vigil or whatever [low-quality video here: Campbell speaks at 12:51]. It was a mix of prayer and rally. The story of Nina, who had been thrown out of her family.
Her father was a Baptist preacher. She was thrown out of the family because she came out as a lesbian. And they said to her, if you want to be part of the family, you need to go to deprogramming. Whatever they call the Focus on the Family piece. And she did it for a few months because she so wanted to be part of her family.
And then finally, she just realized it was destroying her. It was destroying her, so she ran away. And she hadn’t had contact with her dad. She’d gotten contact with her blood sister. But what she had discovered in the process of doing her own work, her own therapy work with a therapist not in this deprogramming thing, is that she came to find love.
That the piece that was missing was a love for herself, and then she could find a partner. And that they had a baby, and she was so excited! And then she came to this stunning realization that her community organizing work was quite like her dad as a pastor. That she cared for the community the way her dad did.
And that makes me cry to this day, the work that she did to find love and to be embracing at the time where she was most stigmatized. How could you not support Nina? I ask you, how could you not? [emphases added]
Minutes later, when asked about Georgetown Visitation Preparatory School recognizing same-sex couples in its alumni magazine, Campbell rejoiced: “Jesus is always about love and supporting love… Lifting up the love of their alums was more important to her [the president emeritus] than the kerfuffle over what sex do you identify with and who’s your partner. And I admire her greatly for the courage and clarity.”
As we examine more talking heads from G+C, you will see Campbell is not alone among them in being fully affirming of queer fornication and hostile to Christian exclusion of sexual immorality.
Conclusion
The film “God And Country” is clearly a polemic against what it calls “Christian Nationalism,” which can mean anything from ethnic cleansing projects to merely voting for Donald Trump, depending on who is defining the term. What is more important than what the film is against is what it is for. What is the form of “Christianity” that the filmmakers think is superior to their boogeyman?
Sister Campbell’s faith is a universalist, mystical, Bible-editing, sexually libertine, ultimately man-centered religion. All of her statements that bring us to this conclusion are public information. The filmmakers are not likely to advertise her beliefs in the movie’s limited runtime, so it is important for the public to know where her critiques are coming from. What she means by “Christian” or “not Christian” is objectively at odds with the actual, historic Christian faith.
(The Dissenter) Russell Moore, David French, and Curtis Chang are the authors of “The After Party” curriculum which is supposed to equip churches and Christians on how to engage in politics without being “divisive.” Yet, these clowns epitomize everything that is wrong with today’s Church by wholly embracing practically every anti-Christian progressive ideology known to man.
In a recent clip of several of the contributors to this “church” curriculum, they praise one of the most divisive, politically charged social justice pastors in all of Evangelicalism—Charlie Dates. And they hold him ups as one of the examples of a Christian leader who represents exactly what they’re fighting for.
So who is Charlie Dates? In 2018..to continue reading click here.
This article was written and published at the Dissenter
Days after former Kentucky county clerk Kim Davis was ordered to pay $100,000 to the two gay men whose marriage license she famously refused to sign in 2015, her lawyers have revealed that they plan to appeal.
Last week, Davis was hit with the six-figure sum after a federal jury awarded David Ermold and David Moore each $50,000. The two sued Davis for not giving them a state blessing to the sodomy nearly a decade ago, prior to the Supreme Court ruled on Obergefell v. Hodges and the wholehearted adoption of gay ‘marriage’ became the bad law of the land.
At the time Davis had a choice – she could obey the rightful governing authority (her state constitution, along with state and federal law) – or an activist judiciary. Both are authorities of one kind or another, where to obey one is to disobey the other. Davis chose to obey the rightful authority and made national news for it, even becoming a political prisoner.
Predictably, her refusal to sign garnered her no support from Russell Moore, then the ERLC head and scurrilously nuanced debutante, who was quick to chastise her for her decision and made it very clear that she should have resigned from her position rather than continue to faithfully execute the requirements of her office.
Regarding the money, Liberty Counsel told the Christian Post that Ermood and Moore had no basis for receiving $100,000.
“Plaintiffs are required to provide evidence of damages, and it cannot be based on speculation or guesswork. Because the plaintiffs provided the jury with no evidence whatsoever to give the jury any basis upon which to enter a damages verdict, the judge should never have given the case to the jury.”
Now, the Holy Post has released a trailer for a series featuring folks like Lecrae, Kristen Kobes Du Mez, Jemar Tisby, and Russell Moore explaining why they’re still Christians despite being mistreated and ‘unfairly’ criticized for their actions and beliefs by mean and judgy Christians.
First episode drops on Monday, September 18! Make sure to subscribe to The Holy Post wherever you listen to podcasts so you don't miss it! pic.twitter.com/f8fGGvKyKx
Of course, Vischer would never ask them those questions.
He’d never ask Du Mez “Do you think some of the heat coming your way is because you support same-sex marriage and lamented that overturning Roe will radicalize evangelicals further? Can you see maybe see how some of them might not like that?”
If these are the sort of people that Vischer wants us to sympathize with or feel bad for warning against, tugging at the heartstrings for creating lines in the sand, then he’s going to be very, very disappointed.
On a recent episode of his podcast, former ERLC president and current Editor-in-Chief of Christianity Today Russell Moore offered up the smarmy, self-satisfied confession that he doesn’t like John Bunyan or his famous book Pilgrim’s Progress, saying it leaves him “cold” for it’s emphasis on encouraging believers to test themselves to see if they are in the faith.
“The Pilgrim’s Progress” is a religious allegory by John Bunyan, the renowned 17th Century Reformed Baptist and English preacher, and perhaps the most influential Christian literature after the bible. In 1660, Bunyan was arrested for preaching without a license from the Church of England. He was subsequently imprisoned for about twelve years, during which he wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress, among other works. The book was first published in 1678 and has since become one of the most famous and enduring works of Christian literature.
The story follows the journey of the main character, Christian, as he travels from the “City of Destruction” to the “Celestial City.” The narrative is an allegory of the Christian journey from a life of sin and spiritual darkness to salvation and eternal life. In the book, Christian faces various trials, temptations, and encounters with characters representing different aspects of the Christian experience, making it achingly relatable and deeply personal.
But it does nothing for the cold vessel that is Moore, who explains:
Moore: I don’t like John Bunyan. I like the person of John Bunyan. I like the life of John Bunyan, but Pilgrim’s Progress leaves me cold and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners even more so. And I think because I’ve seen so many people who started reading some Puritan literature from that time period who became so morose and so introspective and believing there’s no way they could really be a Christian.
And all of the tests that they were giving to themselves, then they would test whether or not they had the objectivity to go through the tests, you know, all of that. That Puritan era, I think, brought some things that just really creeped me out.
But you talk about in the book just how significant Pilgrim’s Progress really was in terms of shaping everything around us, which I don’t think I’d ever thought about before. I mean, I knew it was at one point the most popular book other than the Bible, but I didn’t really think about how the story actually changed the way we see things.
Prior: I’m going to be completely honest here. I mean, the Pilgrim’s Progress is kind of a drag to read. I mean, even teaching it, my students love to hate it, and I love to teach it to try to hate it with them and help them see it. And I’m so glad, actually, that I came to it as a student of literature before more than a Christian. I mean, I was a Christian, but I approached it as literature.
Part II: Wherein Docktor Russell Moore confesseth himself to be a John Bunyan dis-respecter.
“I don’t like John Bunyan…Pilgrim’s Progress leaves me cold and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners even more so.” pic.twitter.com/AIJ78W7e6x
