Evangelicalism

Here is a timeline detailing my experience of gas-lighting, abuse, and ego at the hands of the elders while serving as a member of the pastoral staff at Hope Community Church in Austin, TX. Hope is a seven year old non-denominational church that’s a part of the Crete Collective. Their…

On June 17, 2022 I decided to break my silence regarding the abusive patterns I experienced at the hands of the elders of Hope Community Church. You can read more about my experience here: My Experience of Spiritual Abuse as a Pastor at Hope Community Church The biggest piece of…

I have a confession to make. I love pumpkin pie. I don’t mean in the sense of the juvenile film American Pie; and no I wouldn’t marry one. I just mean I really, really enjoy pumpkin pie. The problem with pumpkin pie is you can’t find it outside the United…

Out of the heart, something wicked this way comes — Evangelical Christians, myself included, tend to put considerable stock in doctrinal purity. Some may even say that, for better or worse, belief in the correct doctrines comes above all else. The doctrine of total depravity, wherein human nature is understood as inescapably bent towards evil, is one of these doctrines…

When Martin Luther King, Jr. was alive he was widely despised by evangelicals and attacked. Prominent Baptist preacher Tim LaHaye King an “out-right theological liberal heretic.” (They hadn’t yet invented the “woke” insult.) It was common for evangelical churches to teach God demanded segregation and mandated the separation of the…

What is deconstruction? I can describe what it feels like better than I can explain what it is. Deconstruction feels like walking alone through a pitch-black forest. It’s the unsettling feeling you get when the ground you’re walking on becomes unstable, ready to collapse under you. It’s a deep-seated, gnawing…

It is assumed that you have a passing familiarity with the people in these photos. It is OK if you don’t. Who they are is a bit meaningless…

Part 1: My Backstory — was at Mars Hill Church in Seattle for ten years, from 2004 to 2014. I left a few months before Mark Driscoll resigned. He left abruptly even though he swore from the pulpit over and over again for years that he would never leave, that he would be pastoring at…

Evangelicalism is an active Christian movement, derived from the Protestant Reformation (16th century) and Puritanism (17th century). It is an expression of the Christian faith, among many other expressions (e. g. Roman Catholicism; Greek Orthodoxy; Pentecostalism; Liberalism; etc.). It is Protestantism with an affinity for the Bible and the evangel. …