Let’s talk about how Cities Church treats women
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on January 21, 2026. “David Easterwood is a pastor here. He is also the director of the Field Office for ICE in St. Paul. So someone who claims to worship God, teaching people in this church about God, is out there overseeing ICE agents,” civil rights lawyer Levy […]
You won’t believe our story of Medicaid waste, fraud and abuse
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on May 22, 2025. Three days before what we thought would be my wife, Ruth Ellen’s, final surgery for stage three breast cancer, my mind was racing as I was trying to finish moving out of our old house while confirming plans for where our five kids would […]
That time I got an angry call from the subject of an article about anger and abuse
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on March 23, 2025. Editor’s note: It is BNG’s policy to correct factual errors as soon as possible after learning about those errors. In the case of Rick Pidcock’s earlier piece mentioned here, we have not been informed of any factual errors or asked to make any […]
Allegations against Tim Whitaker and The New Evangelicals show how hierarchy transfers to progressive ministries
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on March 20, 2025. Spiritual abuse while protecting a theological and institutional hierarchy is a common story in conservative evangelicalism today. But on Sunday night, the script appeared to flip when news broke that Godly Response to Abuse in the Christian Environment had been investigating Tim Whitaker and […]
A pastor’s wife’s questionable suicide sparks suspicion and highlights the fruit of abusive theologies
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on May 12, 2024. Mica Miller’s body was found at 3:03 p.m. April 27 in Robeson County, N.C., with a gunshot wound to the head, an hour and a half drive away from her home in Myrtle Beach, S.C., two days after serving her husband divorce papers. Her […]
Plagiarism is the least thing to worry about with Voddie Baucham, who is a threat to children, women and daughters
This article originally appeared on March 7, 2022 at Baptist News Global. After Baptist News Global broke the news that Voddie Baucham was being asked to accept a nomination to become the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention, the Theobros could hardly contain their excitement. Owen Strachan tweeted: “What Voddie saw TEN YEARS AGO, many evangelicals still refuse to see. […]