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Controversies & Case Studies

Controversies & Case Studies gathers essays on significant disputes, flashpoints, and public debates that have shaped Christian conversations over time. These posts revisit past controversies, examine influential voices and movements, and preserve important context that helps explain current trends—especially in discussions about men and women in the church. If you want to understand how today’s issues developed, this category offers historical perspective and theological reflection.

Best-selling Devotional Edited by Sarah Bessey Has Prayer That Says “Dear God, please help me to hate White people.”

Someone shared photographs of the entire chapter so it can’t be said the quotes are being taken out of context. You can read them in the screenshots in this article linked at the end. It’s also written by, you guessed it, a PROFESSOR OF THEOLOGY, Chinequa Walker-Barnes of Mercer University. “Dear God, Please help me to hate …

Christianity Today Actually Published This – The Shocking Necessity of Racist Violence

Christianity Today jumped the theological shark long ago, but this surprised even me a bit. It’s that over the top awful. Then I saw that the author is connected to the Christian Reformed Church (CRC). This kind of stuff is what made it impossible for us to even attend a CRC church and choose to return …

Breaking Our Bonds: Wokeness Will Destroy NPC Sororities

One of the enjoyable parts of running this website is discovering other Delta Delta Delta (Tri Delta) sorority sisters. Over the years I’ve met Tri Deltas from different chapters around the country. It provides an instant bond. Why? Because when I meet another Tri Delta I know we have one thing in common – our …

Is It Possible Some Mormons Are Saved?

I’ve studied Mormonism off and on since I was in high school. This article is, hands down, the best basic explanation I have seen of the difference between the historic Christian faith and Mormonism without getting bogged down in lots of terminology and history. Here is a little bit. Well worth reading the entire article. …

Life Lessons From Warren Wiersbe and Rachel Held Evans | Those Who Fall Away By Deconstructing Their Faith

I started writing a post last spring when Warren Wiersbe and Rachel Held Evans died within a few days of each other. To say their lives ended up being radically different is not an overstatement. I wrote a bit and then set it aside since I did not think it was the right time. Generally …

Praying For Your Country’s Leaders

Way back in 2007 I wrote Have You Prayed for Paris Hilton? At the time, this celebrity was everywhere in the news and, in fact, in jail. I just pulled my post out of the unpublished archives and republished it because it ties in with what I’m going to say today. I’d appreciate it if …

Are the Women to Blame for Doug Phillips’ Resignation From Vision Forum Ministries?

If you didn’t see the news over the weekend, Doug Phillips of Vision Forum confessed to an inappropriate relationship with a woman not his wife. If you aren’t familiar with all this, just do a search and you’ll find plenty of reaction. Way back in 2006 I took a public stand against Doug Phillips and …

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