My latest interview with the Here Apocalypse YouTube Channel covers a range of issues concerning progressive Christianity and the evangelical misinformation peddlers. ?
Alisa Childers
My Progressive Christianity Debate with David Wolcott
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:
Pantheism Paranoia! Deconstructing Alisa Childers’ Misinformation
Alisa Childers is spreading misinformation and promoting paranoia with regard to the concepts of pantheism and panentheism. In this video, I offer a reply. ?
How Alisa Childers Hopes Rachel Held Evans Got Saved Before She Died
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. ?
Not Another Gospel: A Rebuttal to the False Teaching of Alisa Childers
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. ?
The Many Confusions of Alisa Childers
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. ?
Gaslighting the Critics? If you call out Alisa Childers’ falsehoods, you’re not the problem
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.
The Many Errors of Alisa Childers (Part 1)
In this video, I provide an extended critical analysis of apologist Tim Stratton’s recent interview with Alisa Childers. ?
Why Alisa Childers’ Slurs Against Progressive Christians Deserve No Charity
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 […]
Bad Defenses of Alisa Childers: A Response
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. ?
How Conservative Evangelicals Foment Hatred and Suspicion toward Progressive Christians
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 […]
Are Progressive Christians Relativists? Rebutting the Absurd Claims of Alisa Childers
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 […]
Why Doesn’t Josh Swamidass like Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too?
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 […]
Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too: The Capturing Christianity Interview
Check out my discussion about Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too with Capturing Christianity: ?
