In this video, I provide an extended critical analysis of apologist Tim Stratton’s recent interview with Alisa Childers. ?
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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: ?
Announcement on My Next Book: Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too
Last year, I read a really bad book: Alisa Childers’ Another Gospel? is an ignorant polemical screed that attacks several Christian thought leaders by name, insisting that these individuals (people like Peter Enns, Brian Zahnd, Rachel Held Evans, Richard Rohr, and so on) are not Christians at all but rather wolves out to destroy God’s church. Sadly, […]
Another Gospel? The Irony of Alisa Childers
Alisa Childers has become very popular in the last few years promoting some scary thing she calls “progressive Christianity”. Sadly, Cameron of Capturing Christianity continues to boost Childers. If you want a capsule summary of how offensive Childers is, take a look at this Frank Turek tweet in which he promotes Childers’ “course” that explains […]
An Open Letter to Lee Strobel and Sean McDowell
To Lee Strobel and Sean McDowell, I am writing to you concerning your endorsements of Alisa Childers’ book Another Gospel? Mr. McDowell, you referred to the book as “a timely must-read book.” And Mr. Strobel, you actually wrote the forward to the book and you claim that Childers “fearlessly confronts the distortions and outright falsehoods […]
According to Alisa Childers, People Like Me Are Going to Hell: A Review of Another Gospel?
I just finished reading Alisa Childers’ book Another Gospel?. It is a hugely popular book that came out a year ago and has almost two thousand Amazon.com reviews. As I will note briefly below, it does have some diamonds embedded in the coal. But there is a lot of coal. Indeed, this is one of […]
Alisa Childers, “Historic Christianity,” and the Atonement
In this video, I consider how Alisa Childers adopts an idiosyncratic definition of “historic Christianity” that reduces the essentials to Paul’s creed in 1 Corinthians 15:3-7. Next, I point out how Childers attacks progressive Christians by claiming without evidence that “most” progressive Christians reject the core doctrine of substitutionary atonement.
Can a pastor have doubts?
In this video, I offer a critical response to Alisa Childers and Cameron Bertuzzi of Capturing Christianity as they discuss Ms. Childers’ former pastor who once described himself as agnostic. The video raises an important question: “Can a pastor have doubts?” The answer, I think, is that at times pastors will likely have doubts. The […]
