Tom Ascol and Jared Longshore of The Founders Ministries’ The Sword and The Trowel podcast interviewed Voddie Baucham regarding Joel McDurmon’s charges of misquoting, mischaracterization, and plagiarism in Voddie’s bestselling book, Fault Lines.
Read MoreAre we going to define our opponents in the best possible way and then refute them, or will we take the all-too-easy path of addressing and refuting the worst possible definitions?
Needless to say, when Neil Shenvi and Richard Delgado agree, we should probably pay attention.
Read MoreEither Salem Books Publishing is unaware of Chicago standards and is still using them as an excuse, or he doesn't care that Voddie's book includes these severe ethical problems. It would have been better to admit to a severe formatting mistake (as best), but now the publisher is left with defending a version of the Chicago style that doesn't exist.
Read MoreWe learned that the truth about the fake quotations in Fault Lines is even worse than we thought. Not only has Voddie attributed false quotations, he has done so repeatedly AND it appears he plagiarized some of the fake material in the process.
Read MoreBut what’s the response of the right-wing? Instead of saying, “you know, being compassionate is a good thing, but this is how to really care for people well,” the right-wing has instead decided to market themselves as the assholes who don’t care about anything but the “facts” and “statistics.”
Read MoreThe full series of Dr. McDurmon’s extensive video review of Voddie Baucham’s book Fault Lines.
Read MoreThere’s a high statistical likelihood that at least some of the calloused, shock-jock, far-right commentators who dismiss, minimize, or outright mock the importance of mental health are suffering greatly and silently with their own mental health problems.
Read MoreIs Christianity truly the White man’s religion? To answer this question, let’s address it point by point.
Read MoreMany nations have fallen before us and we are not immune. Perhaps our nation completes it’s rejection of Jesus. Many nations have. Maybe heretics and blasphemers will win the day. I hope not, but they have won the day before only for their work to be undone. Jesus holds His people, we cannot be defeated in the end.
Read MoreWhen Sam finally accepted the mantle of Captain America, I felt a sense of pride. The embodiment of the best of America and her ideals, was a Black man standing proud before a watching nation in a winged red, white, and blue striped Captain America suit, holding the shield. When thinking about the past four years under an extremely problematic President and how many of my people, myself included, have been told to leave this country when we point out the systemic racism and injustice that still plagues this nation, to hear a Black man proudly proclaim, “I’m Captain America” was life-giving.
Read MoreWe have a higher calling than “owning the libs.” We do not get to have special standards for our team. Believers are called to have integrity and judge matters impartially and righteously. It is far too easy for us to judge our side very loosely while judging those we are opposed to very harshly. In other words, it is far too common to have one standard for the conservative and another for the liberal.
Read MoreProtectionism is in clear opposition to the liberty prescribed in God’s law regarding international trade. God allowed His people to trade freely with other nations (Deut 2:2-7), even if they were enemies. Civil rulers were never given the right to interfere with the free enterprise of individuals and their trade agreements. Their role is limited to punishing wrongdoers (Rom 13:4). When people are left to trade freely according to God’s will and design, things go generally well for both parties of a trade. Through free trade, we have seen prosperity reach the most impoverished countries, the spread of Christian culture and ideas, and a restrain on war. Free trade is a blessing and gift from God.
Read MoreThe infighting about in-feeling (empathy) has paid off—a little anyway. Here’s why, and more. . . .
Read MoreBecause some people abuse empathy, James White and others have taken it upon themselves to redefine empathy absolutely as a sin in and of itself. This autonomous abuse of language has no warrant or support in history, scholarship, or practice. Instead of this unfortunate advice, Christians need to understand the power of empathy as a pathway of sanctification and healing of relationships. We need to engage in proper empathy much more!
Read MoreIt is inevitable, and we can already see this in hundreds of social media debates, that followers of these men will reject any definition of empathy in a sloppy attempt to follow their thought-leaders. Empathy is not codependence and it is not enmeshment, but that is not and will not be clear to many.
Read MoreThe abuse and tyranny these “patriarchs” say they despise in liberals and “Marxists” is in fact their own heritage, and is the animating force in their own midst. The vulnerable continue to suffer, and the patriarchlist system naturally attracts those lusting for power and fit to abuse.
Read MorePastor Doug Wilson and Christ Church elders played a central role in overturning justice and placing a young child within reach of a serial pedophile. The sexual predator then, tragically, acted on his perverse desires. In doing so, the elders who placed this child in harm’s way, and then in their denial of any wrongdoing, are unfit for public ministry. They are the shepherds who let wolves into the flock. They are the keepers of a goring ox let loose upon the people of God. There is forgiveness in Jesus Christ for this sin, but our leaders are to be above reproach. Let us fear God rather than men in this ordeal.
Read More“Churches and their services have travelled a long way from their beginnings in the Bible, and they have picked up major elements from pagan worship that have transformed the life and witness of the body of Christ on earth and indeed seriously compromised the calling of the body of Christ and compromised the way we are meant to go about fulfilling that calling.”
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