Losing faith, gaining facts, my story of learning the truth the hard way. ~...
This link will take you to an article written by a survivor of sexual abuse at Covenant Life School. As C.J. Mahaney attempts to get back on the conference circuit and pretend that everything is fine...
View ArticleSovereign Grace Gilbert – Things Have Changed
I returned to my home in Arizona this summer for a 3-week respite from the heat of Dubai. In keeping with my penchant for self-flagellation and in the spirit of the church covenant of my former...
View ArticleThabiti Anyabwile and The Mahaney Conversation We’re Still Not Having
“Justice is conscience, not a personal conscience but the conscience of the whole of humanity. Those who clearly recognize the voice of their own conscience usually recognize also the voice of...
View ArticleThabiti Anyabwile Shows His True Colors!
“Something is wrong my beloved when the Church of Christ just allows this to continue. We are allowing little lambs to be fleeced and slaughtered while those of us who know better are, for the most...
View ArticleWhere Have We Seen This Tactic Before? (Hint: T4G)
Note on this post: Since I published this post I have been in contact with John Welkner via Twitter. It is the first communication of any kind I have had with him since I quit UCCD in March of 2013....
View ArticleFor Freedom Christ Has Set Us Free
“If you or I oppose a pastor and six people leave due to conflict we will be labeled divisive. If the pastor drives off half the congregation he is a leader taking a stand.” -Bill M, commenter on...
View ArticleAl Mohler Adds Another Volume to His Impressive Stack of Books
RESOLVED, That we encourage all denominational leaders and employees of the Southern Baptist Convention to utilize the highest sense of discernment in affiliating with groups and or individuals that...
View ArticleA Church Group, a Lawsuit, and a Culture of Abuse
I came across this insightful article today. It is a few years old but worthy of a review. “It’s no accident that so many allegations of serious abuse have arisen across SGM’s churches. The...
View ArticleC.J. Mahaney – Doing the Hard Work of Sermon Preparation?
“For a long time I have been convinced that I could take a person with a high school education, give him or her a six-month trade school training, and provide a pastor who would be satisfactory to...
View ArticleJanet Mefferd Cuts to the Heart of the Matter
I included this video in an article I wrote about a year ago. Since then there have been many new visitors to this blog and most of them have never heard this program by Janet Mefferd. Mefferd does a...
View ArticleThe “Scariest Song” from SGM
This is a guest post from Janna L. Chan Earlier, Todd featured a post about the new book, by accused pedophile-enabler Marty Machowski, The Ology. Apparently Sovereign Grace Ministires has released a...
View Article“They Knew and They Let it Happen”
A new film is set to be released in a few days and it looks to be a good one. I am hoping for a sequel on all the sexual abuse and cover-up taking place amongst the Protestant clergy. ...Read more...
View ArticleMatt B. Redmond Speaks Up For the Victims
“10. This past week I talked very briefly with a parent whose child was sexually abused while a part of SGM. I could hear a hopelessness for any kind of justice this side of eternity. And I ask you...
View ArticleSovereign Grace Pastor Matthew Wassink Removed; Why Not C.J. Mahaney?
The Sovereign Grace Churches denominational leaders should be getting proficient at scrubbing websites of any traces of their latest fallen pastor, Lord knows they get enough practice! I’m guessing...
View ArticleChurch Discipline – A Difficult Task?
“Looking at Jesus through the prism of Johannine values offers unique insight into the priorities of discipleship. One’s personal relationship with Christ towers over every other consideration. What...
View ArticleAssociation of Reformed Baptist Churches of America (ARBCA) Leaders Coverup...
“I’ve done something I can’t recover from.” -Pastor Thomas Chantry to Eric Owens, Elder at Miller Valley Baptist Church. Source – Prescott Police Investigation Report Myself and the church I pastor...
View ArticleCovenant Life Church Sure Knows How To Pick’em
What did CLC pastor PJ Smyth know and when did he know it? PJ Smith receives weekly phone call from his father. Breaking: News 4 has aired their first two longer investigative stories on the abuse...
View ArticlePJ Smyth’s Open Letters – A Work in Progress
My therapist likes to keep thing simple, which is useful for me. She tells me that there is a triangle in abuse: the ‘abuser’, the ‘victims’ and the ‘observers’ (observers are people who knew but never...
View ArticleC.S. Lewis & Christopher Hitchens On Abuse in Boarding Schools
Connolly, Waugh, Betjeman, to name only a few, have pungently described the disenchantments of schooldays… I do not wish to appear less competent than my contemporaries in making creep the flesh of the...
View ArticleBrent Detwiler’s Factual Rebuttal of Covenant Life Church Apologist
In a previous post titled “Covenant Life Church Sure Knows How To Pick’em” we had several comments from a Covenant Life Church apologist named “Crumbled” in which he/she attempted to rewrite the...
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