Reading Time: 7 minutes Three months after saying he’d step away from the pulpit indefinitely after admitting to an inappropriate online relationship with a woman on Instagram, Matt Chandler, pastor of the Village Church in Texas and one of the most well-known megachurch leaders in the country, was back in the pulpit on Sunday. He didn’t offer any details […]
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Pastor Christian Watts tried to negate abuse accusations with Christianese
Reading Time: 14 minutes To save his job, Christian Watts clung hard to a time-tested, long-honored evangelical get-out-of-scandal-free card: calling upon Christianese to escape the writing on his wall.
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Rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic: Southern Baptists still arguing over women pastors
Reading Time: 10 minutes To outsiders, this newest strategy might not make a whole lot of sense. But to Southern Baptist leaders, it’s the hands-down most important question of their day.
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On ’60 Minutes,’ Bart Barber revealed the cruelty of Southern Baptists
Reading Time: 6 minutes On Sunday night, 60 Minutes aired an interview with Bart Barber, the new president of the Southern Baptist Convention. It was a hell of a get, even for this particular show, considering all the reasons the head of an organization rife with sexual abuse might not want to speak on national television. Add to that […]
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The many red flags Gracepoint Church waved
Reading Time: 14 minutes In a very real sense, Gracepoint weaponized the deepest yearnings and aches of its prey, then played upon their deepest fears to gain their ongoing compliance.
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Southern Baptist leader shocked by Americans’ ‘pride’ in not being Christian
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Pew Research Center recently projected that, if current trends continue, Christians will be in the minority within 50 years (and probably sooner). By 2070, they said, “Nones” may represent 48% of the population. That’s horrible news for Christian nationalists, who have to reckon with all this non-religious pride, which means it’s great news for […]
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The Southern Baptist 2022 Annual Report is finally here
Reading Time: 12 minutes Thanks to the folks at the Missouri Baptist Convention (MBC), we FINALLY have the SBC’s 2022 Annual Report.
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The Feds are investigating the Southern Baptist Convention for sexual abuse
Reading Time: 4 minutes Why pace yourself when you can sprint? The Department of Justice, during a surprisingly busy week, is now investigating the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant denomination in the United States, for sexual abuse. That’s according to the SBC leaders themselves, who announced on Friday that an investigation was taking place and that they’d fully […]
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Bart Barber: Helping Southern Baptists decline even faster
Reading Time: 8 minutes The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) recently elected Bart Barber to be its newest president. Barber hails from a very small country church in northeast Texas, which he thinks is a good example to the rest of the denomination. He’s also the new leader of his faction, the Pretend Progressives, so he’s busy trying to deal […]
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Southern Baptist extremists seem to be fomenting schism (again)
Reading Time: 14 minutes As the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) continues to decline, two factions have taken to the field of battle. They both want to rule this massive money-making engine. But only one can win the crown. The faction that’s been losing nowadays seems to have focused on another tactic: deliberately fomenting schism