Sex, porn, bikinis, health care, hunger and Great Gatsby depravity
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on November 7, 2025. Those of us who grew up in white evangelical schools and churches are used to being coerced into submission under the threat of exile. In what we experienced as a theocracy, these institutions held total control over our lives, including what we did in […]
Who is Alistair Begg, and why are American fundamentalists so upset with him?
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on February 1, 2024. “I’m not ready to repent over this. I don’t have to,” Alistair Begg boldly declared in a sermon titled “Compassion vs. Condemnation” at the non-denominational Parkside Church in Cleveland last Sunday. The accusations being leveled against Begg are that he has caved to the LGBTQ movement […]
As MAGA pastors gain influence, let’s talk about peace instead of power
This article originally appeared at Baptist News Global on January 19, 2024. “Kind of disturbing” is how journalist Katie Couric described an Axios piece about how Donald Trump built an insurmountable lead in Monday’s Iowa caucus by catering to evangelical MAGA pastors. “They say obviously they embrace Trump because of the Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v Wade,” […]
Doomsday Vault created to preserve conservative preaching against cancel culture
This article originally appeared on December 16, 2022 at Baptist News Global. In a world where peer-reviewed evolutionists are taken seriously and LGBTQ people are treated as peers, Bob Jones University and Sermon Audio have come up with a conservative evangelical counter-offensive known as The Vault. The two organizations have joined forces to build a doomsday vault […]
Interview: “Hope after Deconstruction: One Man’s Journey”
Writer, Musician, Stay-At-Home Dad shares his journey from Evangelical Certainty through doubt and despair and back to hope in Christ. Join Kristine Johnson and John James Kirkwood in this full interview with Rick Pidcock, as they discuss the pitfalls of Young Earth Creation, Calvinism, Eternal Conscious Torment, and more.
My journey from being a young-earth Creationist, Dispensationalist Republican to seeing my neighbor as worthy of my vote
This article originally appeared on October 27, 2020 at Baptist News Global. My body was tense as I sat in the white-walled classroom of my Baptist high school in Middle Georgia. With the sounds of pretend canons firing at the Civil War reenactment across the street, I listened to my teacher tell us about how President […]