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Alisa Childers

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

Announcement on My Next Book: Progressive Christians Love Jesus Too

April 6, 2022 by Randal

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, […]

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

Another Gospel? The Irony of Alisa Childers

March 5, 2022 by Randal

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 […]

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

An Open Letter to Lee Strobel and Sean McDowell

July 12, 2021 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, Lee Strobel, Sean McDowell

According to Alisa Childers, People Like Me Are Going to Hell: A Review of Another Gospel?

July 11, 2021 by Randal

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 […]

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

Alisa Childers, “Historic Christianity,” and the Atonement

June 3, 2020 by Randal

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.

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Alisa Childers, atonement, kerygma, mere Christianity, penal substitution

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