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Alisa Childers

Progressive Christianity on Apocalypse Here: Debriefing a Debate

March 15, 2023 by Randal

My latest interview with the Here Apocalypse YouTube Channel covers a range of issues concerning progressive Christianity and the evangelical misinformation peddlers. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, Apocalypse Here, interview, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too

My Progressive Christianity Debate with David Wolcott

March 13, 2023 by Randal

Over the last year, I have been seeking for an evangelical apologist who is willing to defend in debate Alisa Childers’ claim that progressive Christianity is another religion. Last week, David Wolcott agreed. Here is the debate hosted by Tim Hull:

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, David Wolcott, debate, evangelicalism, progressive Christianity, Tim Hull

Pantheism Paranoia! Deconstructing Alisa Childers’ Misinformation

March 2, 2023 by Randal

Alisa Childers is spreading misinformation and promoting paranoia with regard to the concepts of pantheism and panentheism. In this video, I offer a reply. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, panentheism, pantheism

How Alisa Childers Hopes Rachel Held Evans Got Saved Before She Died

February 20, 2023 by Randal

In my latest video, I review a podcast in which Alisa Childers talks about how she thinks Rachel Held Evans was not a Christian but she still hopes Evans repented and was saved before she died. Be careful, this may raise your blood pressure. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, Rachel Held Evans

Not Another Gospel: A Rebuttal to the False Teaching of Alisa Childers

February 20, 2023 by Randal

In the last three years, Alisa Childers has become a key conservative evangelical influencer. But her popular 2020 book “Another Gospel?” promotes a false and harmful thesis about progressive Christian brothers and sisters. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?, fundamentalism, progressive Christianity

The Many Confusions of Alisa Childers

October 22, 2022 by Randal

In this video, I interact with an excerpt from a new Sean McDowell interview with Alisa Childers in which she makes vague references to “the world” as a mere foil for her own views and appears to endorse a bracing moral skepticism. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, evangelicalism, indoctrination, rhetoric

Gaslighting the Critics? If you call out Alisa Childers’ falsehoods, you’re not the problem

September 28, 2022 by Randal

This video offers a direct reply to critics who claim that it is rude or mean or otherwise un-Christian to call out Alisa Childers for repeatedly and unapologetically spreading false and harmful claims about fellow Christians.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too

The Many Errors of Alisa Childers (Part 1)

September 17, 2022 by Randal

In this video, I provide an extended critical analysis of apologist Tim Stratton’s recent interview with Alisa Childers. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, progressive Christianity

Why Alisa Childers’ Slurs Against Progressive Christians Deserve No Charity

August 1, 2022 by Randal

Someone asked me: “taking Childers’ claim that ‘Progressive Christianity is another religion,’ do you think it’s possible to ‘fix’ it somehow to make it something you could agree with?” I understand the spirit of the question: we should definitely strive to find agreement where we can. However, Childers’ thesis is not salvagable. As I demonstrate […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, progressive Christianity

Bad Defenses of Alisa Childers: A Response

July 8, 2022 by Randal

While I have been unable to find any scholar willing to defend Alisa Childers’ thesis that progressive Christianity is another religion, her book Another Gospel? has many defenders on social media. In this video, I offer a response to three common attempts to defend Childers’ book. ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?, progressive Christianity

How Conservative Evangelicals Foment Hatred and Suspicion toward Progressive Christians

July 4, 2022 by Randal

Today, I received the following comment in response to a YouTube video in which I critique Sean McDowell’s misinformation about progressive Christians. The comment sounds like a string of talking points from conservative evangelicals like Alisa Childers, Mike Winger, and Sean McDowell. To begin with, the comment offers an absolute binary judgment in which progressive […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, misinformation, progressive Christianity, Sean McDowell

Are Progressive Christians Relativists? Rebutting the Absurd Claims of Alisa Childers

June 25, 2022 by Randal

This article consists of three excerpts from one chapter in my book Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too. To read more, pick up a copy of the book! Time and again, I find a common error among many conservative Christians: they confuse a healthy awareness of our own fallibility in knowledge with relativism about truth. For […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, progressive Christianity, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too, relativism, truth

Why Doesn’t Josh Swamidass like Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too?

June 17, 2022 by Randal

Yesterday, Capturing Christianity hosted Joshua Swamidass for a conversation in which Swamidass provided a response to my book Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too and the wider progressive/evangelical conversation. In this article, I’m going to provide a bullet-point response to aspects of the conversation. I look forward to speaking with Swamidass about this in the future […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?, Capturing Christianity, Joshua Swamidass, progressive Christianity

Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too: The Capturing Christianity Interview

May 5, 2022 by Randal

Check out my discussion about Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too with Capturing Christianity: ?

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, Another Gospel?, Capturing Christianity, interview, Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too

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