Category: Church Issues

Paula White hit the jackpot. She parlayed her seat on President Trump’s’ spiritual advisory council into some high profile endorsements for her new book, just like she parlayed her personality and warped theology into...

Caricatures and Realities The headline is sobering… or should be.  According to the latest PEW research survey , the number of Americans who self-identify as Christians has fallen by 12 percentage points over the...

1. The worst lie told to victims of abusive churches is that they must hold to some “biblical” standard of behavior in the aftermath…but their victimizers don’t.   The abused are required to forgive...

The Cure of Souls The phrase itself sounds old fashioned… “the cure of souls”.  It sounds as though it is something you might read about in a novel by Charles Dickens or one of...

“A call to KEEP fighting  To the survivor  Your still surviving even though you may not be thriving You no longer have to listen to what they say You get to choose this day...

1. The Southern Baptist Convention held a big conference on church abuse last week. Prominent victim advocates spoke and Boz Tchividjian thundered like an Old Testament prophet. What will change now? Nothing. Abusive churches...

Treasures New and Old It’s a common phenomena.  At one time or another we have all probably done it.  We read a book.  We attend a conference.  We listen to a podcast.  We watch...