CHRISTIANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN ADEPT AT REINFORCING THEIR OWN STEREOTYPES AND BECOMING THE EMBODIMENT OF THE LEFT WiNG MEDIA’S STRAW MEN. YESTERDAY’S TRUMP EVANGELICAL IS TODAYS “CHRISTIAN NATIONALIST”. THE “PRO- LIFE” MOVEMENT IS NOW BEING INVADED BY HATEFUL “MEAN BOYS” WHO WANT TO “PROSECUTE WOMEN” IN ORDER TO “ABOLISH ABORTION NOW”. MEANWHILE YESTERDAYS REALITY SHOW HOMESCHOOLING STARS ARE TODAY’S PEDOPHILE RING PRODUCING “RIGHT WING CONSERVATIVE ACTIVISTS”.

Rev Thomas Littleton

6/22/2023

HEADLINE – “Amazon Prime Video’s docuseries on Bill Gothard and the Duggar family has reportedly become the “biggest docuseries debut ever” for Prime Video.”

plural noun: stereotypes

1. 1.a widely held but fixed and oversimplified image or idea of a particular type of person or thing.”the stereotype of the woman as the carer”

STEREOTYPES STRAWMEN AND FIVE EASY VILLAINS : NOT ALL HOMESCHOOLERS ARE “SHINY HAPPY” GOTHARDITES

This author’s family does homeschooling and have known thousands of homeschool families for over four decades. The self imploded Duggar celebrity homeschool family does not represent the typical homeschool family and NEVER HAS. The sort of morbid facination with a couple who gave birth to “19 Kids and Counting” has now become the head of the spear for vilifying all homeschooling families and Christian conservatism. Pause and think about this for a moment. Nineteen Children and being reality TV stars is not a typical family on ANY level. Yet the BROAD BRUSHING approach of “Shiny Happy People” docu-series makes it clear that the left wants to stop the homeschooling Christian movement in its tracks by pointing fingers at and further exploiting a troubled family whose parents knew as far back as 2003 that their son was molesting some of his sisters. It is well documented that the Duggars were warned by some very close to the parents and family NOT to hide the abuse. Agreed that the greater issue is that the parents did know – and others knew already YET they chose to move forward with making themselves celebrities and cashing in on reality TV . Again- far from typical family – and especially conservative homeschool family.

HOMESCHOOLING DUGGARS AND THE BILL GOTHARD CONNECTION.

This author was first exposed to Bill Gothard as a new believer in the late 1970s. Gothard’s approach to discipleship focused heavily on dating, marriage and family which struck this (then teen aged) author as “strange” given Gothard was single and had no children. Something did not gel yet when Gothard came to town his Institue in Biblical Life Principles ( IBLP )events were packed ..for a time.

(from the Amazon series “Shiny Happy People” story in Christian media.)

“The four-part series highlights how TLC’s reality show about the Duggar family, 19 Kids & Counting, became a popular hit but later fell from its status when allegations of physical and sexual abuse emerged.”

“Interviews in the docuseries reveal that the IBLP encouraged what many are calling physical and spiritual abuse.”

“Gothard resigned in 2014 from the IBLP after allegations of sexual abuse arose against him. Victims later filed a lawsuit but then voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit against him.”

So WHILE RIDING HIGH Gothard had multiple organizations and programs which are presented in the docu-series as producing disciples like the Duggar family. The films script portrays IBLP forming everything from The Joshua Generation- BREEDING AND TRAINING little CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS who plan to “take over America” -to the future “stay at home moms” who are skilled in “MIDWIFERY”. NOW both the Duggars and Gothard have had their own troubles. Gothard is portrayed as an abuser of young women while at the same time the docu-series is rather obscure about which and what of the accusations made toward Gothard have been proven to be true. The BROAD BRUSH STOKES ARE STILL HITTING THE CANVAS in this portait of Christian Homeschooling and Christian Nationalism .

But REAL actual REALITY is that families living out their lives on TV for profit is neither normal nor healthy, nor is homeschooling the reason the scheme melted down, nor is THIS MODEL with 19 kids and counting the goal of many homeschooling families.

SHINY HAPPY STEREOTYPES REINFORCED FROM THE INSIDE

One of the most effective ways to ramp up the vilification and stereotyping of Christian homeschooling as the “breeding ground ” of pedophiles and “Christian Nationalist” is to use one of the well placed activist and political operatives like Christianity Today Editor and former Baptist leader Russell Moore to do the follow through.

Read carefully and watch a masterful shammer at work- Moore is so “disturbed by what he sees” and is all too happy to pick up the BROAD BRUSH of the left media and go to work.

“The Joshua Generation and the Paradox of Power“

“The Amazon Prime docuseriesShiny Happy People: Duggar Family Secrets explores the reality-television homeschooling family and the system that shaped them—Bill Gothard’s Institute in Basic Life Principles—along with the fundamentalist mindset behind it….”

“Much of what it discusses felt nauseatingly familiar given all that we’ve seen in the last several years. One phrase, however, particularly struck me: the Joshua Generation.

Such was the language used by some sectors of the homeschooling and other movements to indicate the “long game” of training up those who could restore national greatness and steer the country back to a “Christian America.” And as Alex Harris, who was interviewed in the series, points out, some aspects of this idea became a reality….”

( Keep in mind about the work of these “voices from within the church”

SHAMMER –

a person who makes deceitful pretensessynonyms:fake, faker, fraud, humbug, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham )

MOORE GOES ON TO SAY

“There’s nothing wrong with preparing students for places of influence in politics (or medicine or business), but the Christian nationalism mixed up in much of the Joshua Generation rhetoric betrays a bigger question: the nature of real power. It seems the Joshua Generation came from a generation that did not know Joshua….”

(NOTE Moore was raised in the Democrat Party political machine of the deep South and worked himself as a Democratic Congressional Staffer. Moore is likely troubled more about the brand of the party of politics he sees the Joshua types serving than the asserted harm to Christian faith . )

“One generation of American Christians offers up a vision of a Christian America, and the next makes it happen…”

Moore:”Note that in this analogy, the Promised Land is the United States of America and Joshua is the present generation. It’s no coincidence that the “Christian” rally days prior to the January 6 attack on the United States were called the “Jericho March”—echoing the account in the Book of Joshua in which the walls of Jericho city collapsed when the Israelites shouted and blew their trumpets (Josh. 6). God said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men” (v. 2).”

MOORE REALLY MAKES HIS POINT :

“The series Shiny Happy People leaves us with yet one more example of how religion can be used for sexual predation on vulnerable people. The allegations there, some of which have been proven in court, are enraging and gut-wrenching. These cases demonstrate how power, which was said to be all about serving Jesus, was instead wielded for sadism. We are left wondering how people can rail against a decadent culture while using the words of Jesus to destroy lives—in actions so decadent even the secular culture would recoil…. True power is not placing interns on Capitol Hill or filling clerkships at the Supreme Court—especially not if what’s behind these efforts is a dead “Christianity” that trades the power of the gospel for the gospel of power.”

THE CHURCH REALITY SHOW CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIANS LIVE OUT EVERY SUNDAY

WILL THE REAL POLITICAL OPERATIVES PLEASE STAND UP AND TAKE A BOW?

PERHAPS THE NEXT REALITY SHOW COULD BE : “AMERICA’S INFLITRATED SEMINARIES 19,000 DISCIPLES AND COUNTING …”

Russell Moore was educated and served for decades under his mentor Albert Mohler at SBTS in Louisville KY and Dean and then Provost before becoming the Baptist chief “ethicist” as President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) .This trainwreck leadership lasted for 8 years -ending badly. Moore had spent 24 years helping educate a generation of “third ( mushy middle ) way” evangelical preachers who are often unaware that they have been bred into “political operatives” in the pulpits of America by mentors like Russell Moore, his mentor Albert Mohler, World Magazines Marvin Olasky and TGC’s Timothy Keller . These new type of pulpiteers have an entire “Theology of political engagement” which has been drafted to MOVE THE POLITICS OF THE CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN POPULATION in America into lockstep with the new growing Christian LEFT… all while thinking that they are being better at being Biblical and serving “Gospel Issues”.

So, if Bill Gothard and Homsechooling are villains producing “Christian Nationalist ” then what are these evangelcial educators who are working for the other side and flooding conservative seminaries, churches and pulpits with Critical Theories and Third Way Fabian Socialism ,The London School of Economics LSE ? Who then are the current sheep in Wolves clothing celebrated by the infamous London based institution LSE ? REALITY is even more intersting than a reality show isn’t it?

MOORE AND KELLER AND OTHERS LIKE THEM DO NOT WANT NATIONALISM OF ANY KIND BECAUSE THEY ARE COMMITTED TO “GLOBALISM” AND GLOBAL GOALS VISIONS.

Loving Well -For the Common Good- promoting Human Flourishing- Thinking Globally- Being known for what we are for not what we are against- Providing Community – and Community Development – and being Civil in our engagement of the culture – merging Faith and Science and right and left narratives into the mushy middle set to collapse into the left..these are the talking points and the END GAME of this monkey business .

WHERE THE ATTACK ON HOMESCHOOLING IS REALLY COMING FROM.

A BATTLE FOR OWNERSHIP …OF THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF CHILDREN

Concerns by the left about homeschooling are rooted in the fact that for the last 100 years plus in America the left has been seeking to OWN K-12 education.They DO OWN public schools from the Department of Education to the local school board to the local classroom. By doing so they are able to partner with Planned Parenthood/ SIECUS / Global GOALs /UNESCO and a host of other leftist organizations to fully indoctrinate children. Then to focus on accusing Conservative Christians who have fled the system and seek to disciple their children as Christians in Christian education as “problematic” is a pretty obvious solution to the growing “problem “of homeschooling.

An example of the Attack on Homeschooling :

“Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Bartholet calls for a radical transformation in homeschooling.”

Law School professor says there is little legal oversight of educational standards or safeguards against abuse.”

“Nationally renowned child welfare expert Elizabeth Bartholet wants to see a radical transformation in homeschooling. In an article in the Arizona Law Review, “Homeschooling: Parent Rights Absolutism vs. Child Rights to Education & Protection,” she argues that the lack of regulation in the homeschooling system poses a threat to children and society. The Gazette sat down with Bartholet, the Morris Wasserstein Public Interest Professor of Law and faculty director of the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School (HLS), to talk about the problems.”

BARTHOLET: “One is the danger of child maltreatment, and we have evidence that there is a strong connection between homeschooling and maltreatment, which I describe in my article. Other dangers are that children are simply not learning basic academic skills or learning about the most basic democratic values of our society or getting the kind of exposure to alternative views that enables them to exercise meaningful choice about their future lives. Many homeschooling parents are extreme ideologues, committed to raising their children within their belief systems isolated from any societal influence. Some believe that black people are inferior to white people and others that women should be subject to men and not educated for careers but instead raised to serve their fathers first and then their husbands. The danger is both to these children and to society. The children may not have the chance to choose for themselves whether to exit these ideological communities; society may not have the chance to teach them values important to the larger community, such as tolerance of other people’s views and values.”

(NOTE: Covid lockdowns and “remote learning ” actually made more parents WAKE UP to the horrors in public education and look toward Christian education and homeschooling – YET here the Harvard effort seeks to flip the narrative to say that the problem is that Child Protection Services reports are down after Covid shutdowns and that abuse is likely UP “because of homeschooling”. Easy to see how “Shiny Happy People” feeds in to this narrative .

BARTHOLET: “My article was written and submitted for publication prior to the COVID-19 crisis. When that crisis hit I was totally in support of the orders shutting down schools as obviously schools then presented a serious danger of spreading the virus, and of course I believe that the overwhelming majority of parents are capable of providing at least a minimal education at home without presenting any danger of abuse or neglect. I do think, though, that the present near-universal home education situation is illuminating. The evidence is growing that reports to Child Protective Services (CPS) have plummeted nationwide, because children are removed from the mandated reporters that schools provide. “

SCHOOL VOUCHERS ARE ALSO IMPACTING THE ISSUE AS PRIVATE SCHOOLS AND HOMESCHOOLING ARE TARGETED FOR GOVERNMENT FUNDING.

(EXCERPT BY ALEX NEWMAN ON HOW THE FUNDING /VOUCHERS ARE INTENTIONALLY PLANNED AND BEING USED TO BRING ABOUT COMPLIANCE AND MANDATES FROM GOVERNMENTS IN PRIVATE AND CHRISTIAN EDUCATION GLOBALLY)

UNESCO Strategy
“This strategy is actually laid out — not in those words, but nonetheless with remarkable clarity — in a recent Global Education Monitor report commissioned by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). According to the report, governments should use tax subsidies for private schools to bring them
under government control and impose regulations mandating “equity” and other goals.
This can be done by forcing entities taking public funds to use certain standards and enforce “centralization and control of the school choice and admissions procedures.” Perhaps even more alarming, under the banner of “autonomy, evaluation, and accountability,” the report proposes “integration of private subsidized schools
into the monitoring and evaluation framework in place for the public sector.”

TRUMP AND EVANGELICALS HAVE NEVER BEEN “A MARRIAGE MADE IN HEAVEN “

Some Reality Checks agains the “Christian Nationalist” Honeytrap.

Most Christians who vote conservative BIBLICAL convictions do vote on the Pro Life issue stance of their candidates and the Republican Party has been the Pro-Life/Anti-Abortion party since the Reagan era. President Donald Trump was THE MOST active President in history for the Pro -Life movement in modern times. Unlike many of the RINO establishment,Trump did not disapoint his followers on this issue and many of those followers were/are Evangelicals. (Trump was and is way too compromised with the LGBTQ lobby for most pro- life- pro- family evangelicals. Some feel he may have lost the 2020 election related battles in part because of this compromise. )

The hard fact is that most evangelical Christian conservatives did not vote to endorse all of Trumps views or his personal history or his business/ celebrity status .They voted for the best candidate to get something actually to change and to prevent Hillary Clinton from being President in 2016 and Joe Biden in 2020. BUT that is not the spin the media- especially most Christian Media operatives like Russell Moore, David French, Marvin Olasky, Albert Mohler,Tim Keller and others have placed on the backs and heads of Christian voters.

THIS IS ALL “REALITY MEDIA ” AND IT IS EVEN MORE FAKE THAN “REALITY TV.”

TRUE CHRISTIANS DO NOT HATE JEWISH PEOPLE, WOMEN WHO HAVE ABORTIONS, OR MINORITES, BECAUSE “REAL CHRISTIANS” HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THE HATED MINORITY AND ARE CALLED TO “LOVE (EVEN) OUR ENEMIES”.

There is a rising lack of support for the Jewish community and for Israel among SOME Christians and much of this is due to the ever warping eschatology of the same influencers involved in the derailment of American conservative seminaries. Non biblical views of the end times and the failure to clarify the call for the Christian witness to spread to the ends of the earth by the Preaching of the Gospel have brought about the substitution of NGO’s, saving the Planet , “redeeming of culture ” and “Community Development ” as the core “vision” of the new evangelicals.This is especially true of those who self- identify as social justice warriors, Neo-Calvinist, and “Civilitas” (third way) Christians. In other words- the church leaders working for/in the other team serving Global Goals, globalism and Faith -Based Partnerships.

These are the Hirelings Jesus talked about in John 10- SEE Bottom.

FOOLS PLAYING THE STRAW MAN

TAKE A LOOK AT THE “END ABORTION NOW” EAN MOVEMENT:

If you watched images of pro-lifers at the SBC annual meetings or from your local State Capitol recently then you might have noticed a movement of radical groups pressing for the prosecution of women who have abortions for murder. They carry the ever ineffective and horrific posters of dead babies ( this is real- not an Alice Cooper stage show) and aborted fetal remains and appear to love to get in the faces of anyone who slows to pass or dares to stop and listen. One such group is led by an aging Calvinist Apologetics named James White and his church teams lead pastor Jeff Durbin of Apologia Church from Phonenix, Arizona. Durbin is a martial arts expert who loves the spotlight and worked as a stunt dubble for the Ninja Turtles brand and in the Mortal Combat franchise. Durbin has found a new home for his celebrity aspirations as a pastor/ activist in the Neo-Hyper Calvinist / cigar smoking/ beer drinking/ tattooed fringe of the evangelical and Calvinist hard right. James White joined the cast of characters on the Apologia Church staff and merged his following with Durbin’s.

The “End Abortion Now” movement has possibly gotten some big funding behind it but that is speculation based on its sudden presence at the SBC annuals and wide spread presence accross the country to State Capitols.

The EAN movements answer is NOT to go for the abortion industry, its multi-billion $$$ funding or planned parenthood or even the Democratic Party or the global Malthusian machine. But EAN chooses rather to go after Women who believe the lies of the machine and end the lives of their own young. Horrific – sinful- Answerable to God YES- But how to end abortion now? or -How the Church should find its redemptive place in the issue?

NO NEVER NOT EVER.

The Durbin narratives also go after Pro -Life activists who are unwilling to embrace this approach and vilify them as not truly pro-life and in lock step with the Abortion Industry . So if you do not want to put women who have abortions on trial for Murder then “you are them… the pro-abortion enemy of “Ending Abortion Now”.

The NY Times picked up the extremism of Durbin and White/Apologia Church views and movement in July of 2022.

Inside the Extreme Effort to Punish Women for Abortion

“Abortion Abolitionists” are the outer edge of the anti-abortion movement. They’re looking to gain followers after the decision to overturn Roe, unsettling mainstream anti-abortion groups.”

BIBLICAL WARNING ALERT – The problem that leaps out off the narrative of prosecuting women who have abortions for murder takes us straight back to the problem in JOHN 8 AND THE WOMAN “CAUGHT IN ADULTERY”. The men of the city cast her at Jesus feet demanding that He pronounce Old Testament judgement ..the DEATH PENALTY…STONING HER …with this “woman caught in the very act…of adultery”. So where was THE MAN ? … And why are these “Abortion Abolitionists ” of “End Abortion Now” heavy hitters giving the fathers of the aborted children a pass on MURDER?

Instead Jesus is reminding these blood thirsty guys that He is seeking and willing to show mercy and that MERCY is based – enabled by His pending sacrifice and with the reminder to “let him who is without sin cast the first stone”. Jesus, after the stones dropped to the ground- turned to this guilty woman and asked “where are your accusers? Does no man condemn you? She replied “No man Lord”. Jesus said “neither do I condemn you, “GO and SIN NO MORE”. This is the Gospel Durbin and his cohorts in EBN look to have lost the gospel in their narrative and forgotten the role of pastors and the saints is the Gospel, NOT the nuancing of pro-life approach. Stop the genocidal Malthusians and eugenics globalist and the billions that flood the global abortion industry annually.That would be the only way to End Abortion Now.

ANTI-ABORTION HYPER CALVINISM -THE SELF CONTRADICTION IS TOO GREAT.

NOTE IT IS INTERESTING TO CONSIDER THE EXTREMES REPRESENTED AMONG THESE TWO GROUPS- THE DUGGARS WITH 19 CHILDREN AND THE DURBINS OF THE NEO-HYPER-CALVINIST REVIVAL. HYPER CALVINIST ARE KNOWN HISTORICALLY FOR SAYING NON-ELECT BABIES ARE CREATED BY GOD TO FUEL THE FIRES OF HELL. ABORTED BABIES , BY THIS NEO-HYPER -CALVINIST THEOLOGY- WOULD BE ORDAINED BY A SOVEREIGN GOD NOT TO BE BORN BUT GIVEN A FAST TRACK TO THEIR NON- ELECT FATES. SO WHY PROSECUTE THE MOTHERS WHO DID GOD’S WILL BY THIS CONFUSED THEOLOGICAL MINDSET?

DURBIN IS OUT DUGGARING THE DUGGARS TO EMBODY THE LEFT’S STRAW MAN.

Christians have to ask -“where is the real Jesus and true Gospel redemption in the media monster mash of would be spokesmen and cultural champions in the Reality Media Narratives?”. Be it the Duggar Parents or Bill Gothard -guru of Homeschoolers or Jeff Durbin and the aging apologist James White – Christians who love the spotlight as celebrity preachers, moral standard bearers and positions as self appointed spokemen for “all True Christian Believers” make themselves vulnerable to becoming “Five Easy Pieces” in the mainstream vilification of REAL Christians. WE are OUR own STRAWMEN AND our own WORST ENEMY .

WHERE IS THIS HEADING ?

All of the talking points that the church is filled with white privileged haters of ethinic groups and ABUSERS OF WOMEN is Broad -Brushed by feminists with their own designs on the church. Is there a problem? Have there been coverups? Are there some people in Christian churches and even leadership who hate and abuse… ? Zero doubt that abuse has taken place but are All Homeschoolers abusers – breeding and indoctrinating future Christian Nationalists? No -ABSOLUTIELY NOT . Are there some? YES just like any other group or institution of every religious or political persuasion . BUT broad-brush tactics and manipulative narratives do not come from people or entities who love the truth and are seeking to help you know it. Secular media have their own ideals to promote and agenda against Biblically conservative Christians.

TRUTH SEEKERS DO NOT NEED CRITICAL THEORIES TO HELP IDENTIFY, SPEAK OR LEAD PEOPLE INTO TRUTH.

THE LEFT LOVES TO VILIFY CHRISTIANS BUT NOT AS MUCH AS THE WELL PLACED PROFESSIONAL “SHAMMERS” FROM WITHIN THE CHURCH AND CHRISTIAN MEDIA.

CONCLUSION

None of these media theatrics in “Reality TV” and “Reality Media ” are REAL. They are agenda driven with those waiting in the wings who have something to gain and seek occasion to turn public opinion against Christians. There is plenty of fault and failure in the church and especially by Christian leaders BUT those targeting Homeschooling want to force government oversight and compliance with perverse and unchristian National Standards and revise history and further the general dumbing down of Americas children already taking place in public education. The same forces seek to shame and reshape Christian voting patterns away from biblical issues like pro-life and towards embrace of abortion “rights”. It is manipulation and DEATH by NARRATIVE. BEST TO IGNORE them and do your own thinking- parenting- voting and continue to follow the Lamb wherever He leads..

Jesus the Good Shepherd

JOHN 10 :⁷ Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. ⁸ All who ever came ^[a]before Me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. ⁹ I am the door. If anyone enters by Me, he will be saved, and will go in and out and find pasture. ¹⁰ The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

¹¹ “I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives His life for the sheep. ¹² But a hireling, he who is not the shepherd, one who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees; and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them. ¹³ The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep. ¹⁴ I am the good shepherd; and I know My sheep, and am known by My own. ¹⁵ As the Father knows Me, even so I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep. ¹⁶ And other sheep I have which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they will hear My voice; and there will be one flock and one shepherd.

¹⁷ “Therefore My Father loves Me, because I lay down My life that I may take it again. ¹⁸ No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father.”

THIRTY YEARS AGO SEMINARY WAS VIEWED, BY MANY YOUNG MEN CALLED INTO MINISTRY, AS SOMETHING TO BE ENDURED. TODAY THE INORDINATE OBSESSION WITH PHILISOPHY MIXED WITH CRITICAL THEORY LACED SYSTEMATIC THEOLOGY HAS CAUSED A GENERATION OF YOUNG POSTMODERN MEN AND WOMEN TO SEE THEOLOGY AS AN END IT ITSELF AND THEMSELVES AS BECOMING PART OF AN ELITE THEOLOGICAL CLASS.

MEANWHILE THEY HAVE NO CLUE OF HOW MANIPULATED, INDOCTRINATED AND IMPACTED BY TAINTED FUNDING- THEY, THEIR EDUCATION AND THEOLOGY HAVE BECOME.

Rev Thomas Littleton

6/20/ 2023

WHY IT MATTERS SO VERY MUCH

As the church goes so goes America and American /Western civilization.This is proven and beyond credible dispute.The beyond dispute is the reality that church is in steep decline in America and especially in the South where it has long been at the center of culture and family life. It would take a massive move of the Holy Spirit to revive the church at this point and THAT would require humility, repentance and rending of the collective hearts of the saints. It would start in the prayer closet and mainfest in the pulpits and in the alters of the churches. THAT is not happening because the pulipts are infected and the infection has spread from the seminaries.

It matters most at this stage because the continued rot in the seminaries then flood into our churches and impact our families and our children. This happens EVERY TIME a church hires a new pastor or staffer from these tainted institutions. The problem (beyond prayerless and, at times, unsaved students and faculty) is MONEY. Pretty simple. Below is an examination of just one institution in this authors local city located at a former Baptist University and now filled with the deadly poison of WOKE Justice/ Faith and Works socialist economics and the ongoing grants and impact of tainted money DESIGNED to infiltrate and corrupt our institutions , movements and churches.

THE ROOT OF THE ISSUE

BEESON DIVINITY SCHOOL (SEMINARY) – ONE LOCAL EXAMPLE WHERE TAINTED APOLOGETICS IS THE NEW DISCIPLESHIP

(NOTE- Beeson Divnity School was begun in 1988 and had ecumenical activist academic Timothy George as its founding Dean. Georige is responsible for the problematic Evangelcials and Catholics Together (ECT) movement and the ecumenical manifesto The Manhattan Declaration . Currently Beeson host on campus the latest of Dr.George “big ideas” the new E&C T- which is Egalitarians and Complentarians Together. Thisactivist filled effort is headquartered in “The Center for Women in Ministry at Beeson” .Though the Divinity School was founded as a non denominational institution it sits on a Baptist University (Samford) campus .Its theological leanings tend to be more Anglican and Charismatic than Baptist and decidedly ragged edged ecumenical. Beeson has been receiving the “Faith and Works” driven WOKE Justice grants of Kern Family Foundation and its Oikonomia Network, formerly KERN PASTORS NETWORK for many years.)

SOME BEESON HISTORY WITH KERN FAMILY FOUNDATION /OIKONOMIA GRANTS

FIRST TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT FAITH AND WORK ECONOMICS MEAN

( NOTE -The Socialist and WOKE /Inclusive justice Faith and Works economics is best seen at ITS epicenter and ORIGIN at Princeton and Yale Centers for Faith and Work aka Faith and Culture . The Princeton Center is headed by David Miller while Yale Center is headed by Croation progressive Miroslav Volf)

Cloaked in terms like Human Flourishing, Cultural Engagement and The Common Good”- Faith and Work ideology is a slick form of Socilist economics wrapped in Biblical justice and bible verses but of necessity is driven by Diversity Equity & Inclusion /WOKE Justice and pro -progressive and global goals ideology.

Beeson Divinity School’s long Kern/Faith and Works history –

Published on January 20, 2015 by William Nunnelley  

“Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School has received a $94,667 grant from Kern Family Foundation to train pastors to help their congregations understand the intersection of faith, work and economics. The grant will be dispersed over 18 months beginning in June, according to the project supervisor, associate professor of divinity Mark DeVine.”

“The Bible and the history of theology have much to say about the work human beings were created to do; about the money earned doing it and about wealth and poverty,” said DeVine. “With the resources this grant provides, we seek to comprehend and explore the relevance of this rich subject and educate and equip pastors to do so within their ministry settings.”

“Teaching in the area of faith, work and economics is largely absent in most seminaries,..”

Published on May 16, 2017 by Kristen Padilla

“Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School received its third grant from the Kern Family Foundation for the extension of the school’s Faith and Work program. The grant is for $78,520 for the period of May 2, 2017, to November 2, 2018. ”  

“Directed by Associate Professor Mark DeVine, this initiative received its first Kern grant in 2013. In the last four years, funds from these grants have brought in scholars and experts in the field of faith, work and economics to speak in chapel services, workshops and symposia. These guests have included Tim Keller, Os Guinness, Russell Moore, Wayne Grudem and Scott Rae. “

THE NEW BEESON APOLOGETICS- “AWARD WINNING” … AWARDS FROM TGC/CHRISTIANITY TODAY AND ITS WOKEHOUSE MACHINE.

https://www.samford.edu/news/2023/04/Award-winning-Christian-Apologist-Theologian-Joshua-Chatraw-Named-Beeson-Divinity-Schools-Billy-Graham-Chair-of-Evangelism-and-Cultural-Engagement?

“Samford University’s Beeson Divinity School has announced that Joshua Chatraw will serve as its next Billy Graham Chair of Evangelism and Cultural Engagement beginning in fall 2023.  “

“Chatraw, who is currently the executive director of the Center for Public Christianity in Raleigh, North Carolina, is an award-winning author in the fields of evangelism and apologetics. Having written, co-written and edited eight books, his most recent award was for his book, Telling a Better Story: How to Talk about God in a Skeptical Age, which won a 2021 Christianity Today Book Award. As the school’s Billy Graham Chair, he will teach courses in evangelism and apologetics.”

CONFIRMING THE TAINTED TIES OF THE GOSPEL COALITION

(NOTE- Beeson’s Collin Hansen is a key player in the Neo-Calvinist/Young Resltess and Reformed movement’s launch which lead to the establishment of The Gospel Coalition- which is WOKE central among Christian organizations.)

“Josh Chatraw is one of the brightest young scholars in the fields of apologetics and evangelism,” said Collin Hansen, co-chair of Beeson’s advisory board and vice president for content and editor-in-chief of The Gospel Coalition, as well as executive director of The Keller Center. “I have long admired his writing and often recommended his work to professors, pastors and parents. His teaching experience for the academy as well as the church, in addition to his years of mentoring young adults, uniquely suits him for this new role. I can’t wait for Beeson students to begin learning from him. He and his family will be a great addition to Samford University as well as the broader Birmingham community.”

More Chatraw history and Tim Keller /TGC

https://web.archive.org/web/20220808045706/https://centerforpublicchristianity.org/about/

Our Story

“A group of Raleigh’s community leaders and downtown pastors were drawn together by a common vision to develop Christian leaders whose lives would have a transformative impact on the wider community. Where important conversations could take place in public forums for the good of our city. Their thinking took shape, focusing on a program that would address the necessity and importance of integrating faith and work for the sake of a flourishing city.”

“Their vision turned into reality in 2016 when Holy Trinity Anglican Church and Vintage Church with their partners launched New City Fellows, a 9-month intensive discipleship program for emerging leaders in Raleigh, under the directorship of Katherine Alsdorf, who founded Redeemer’s Center for Faith and Work and Gotham Fellowship. Two years later Josh Chatraw assumed leadership as director of New City Fellows.”

“With the Fellows program established and a network numbering in the 120s, the broader vision can be realized under the banner of the Center for Public Christianity. New City Fellows remains the Center’s flagship initiative, and it is now joined by gatherings – events designed to rally, network, and support our alumni – and forums that engage the community at large in dialogue to address the pressing issues of our day for the common good and God’s redemptive work.”

Our Leadership

Joshua D. Chatraw, Executive Director

“Dr. Chatraw is executive director of the Center for Public Christianity, lead teacher for New City Fellows, and theologian-in-residence at Holy Trinity Anglican Church – all based in Raleigh, NC. His writing and speaking focuses on public theology, apologetics, and culture. He has written and edited several books including, Apologetics at the Cross, Cultural Engagement, The History of Apologetics, Telling a Better Story, Truth Matters, and Truth in a Culture of Doubt. His writing has received numerous awards, Outreach Magazine Resource of the Year in Apologetics and The Gospel Coalition’s Book of the Year in Apologetics/Evangelism, and his work has been featured in outlets such as Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, World magazine, and The Washington Post. He earned his Ph.D in Biblical Studies from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Masters of Divinity from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and a Bachelors in Business from Georgia Southern University. Josh has served in a full-time academic teaching post, as well as pastorates at churches in Virginia and Georgia. Josh and his wife, Tracy, have two children, Addison and Hudson.”

CHATRAW INVOLVEMENT WITH KERN/ OIKONOMIA NETWORK

EWP Talks on Culture: The Context for Transformation

by Oikonomia Network

Our collection of EWP Talks on Culture will help your students understand the social structures that shape them as human beings, for good and for ill, and how we can act to strengthen what is right and challenge what is wrong in those structures. The gospel is not…

Augustine’s Apologetics for a Fragmented World

by Joshua Chatraw, resident theologian, Holy Trinity Church; and Mark Allen, professor of biblical and theological studies and executive director of the Center for Apologetics and Cultural Engagement, Liberty University

Note: From The Augustine Way: Retrieving a Vision for the Church’s Apologetic Witness (Baker 2023). Reprinted by permission of the publisher. Citations have been omitted. As the philosopher Charles Taylor explains, “No one acquires the languages needed for…”

TIM “KELLER CENTER FOR CULTURAL APOLOGETICS “

Chatraw is also part of the newly launched KELLER CENTER with actiivst like gay Anglican priest Sam Allberry ,Revoice/ CRU SSA identified actiivst Rachel Gilson, TGC activist Rebecca McLaughlin , and Obama Foundation led & Campaign leaders Alan Nobel and Kori Poter.

His bio from the Keller Center

“Joshua Chatraw-The Keller Cetners staff adn Fellows bios:”

Joshua Chatraw is the director of the Center for Public Christianity and theologian-in-residence at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Raleigh, North Carolina. Some of his books include Telling a Better Story, The Augustine Way, Apologetics at the Cross (co-authored with Mark Allen), Surprised by Doubt (co-authored with Jack Carson, Cultural Engagement (co-edited with Karen Swallow Prior), and The History of Apologetics (co-edited with Alister McGrath and Benjamin Forrest).”

Daniel J. Lee, Program Coordinator- CHATROW FORMERLY LED “NEW CITY FELLOWS” IS ALSO FROM THE KELLER ORGANIZATION

“Daniel runs operations, curates the Fellows program, and teaches on its faculty. Previously, he was Pastoral Apprentice at the Summit Church, where he worked with The Summit Institute and small groups ministry developing classes and teaching on discipleship, Bible study, and faith-and-work. Daniel hails from New York, where he helped plant Maranatha Grace Church and taught, led worship, and oversaw operations on its staff. Prior to that, he worked in the legal field in Manhattan and attended Redeemer Presbyterian Church. Daniel has a Masters degree in theology from Westminster Theological Seminary. An alumnus of New City (class of ’18), he shares with wife Crystal (Gotham Fellows class of ‘15) a passion for faith-and-work ministry, travel, hospitality, and biblical justice.”

DIRTY PLAYERS MEAN ROTTEN FRUIT

CHATRAW HAS HELPED FURTHER THE #MeToo Movement in the church with players like activist Karen Swallow Prior.

New City Fellows

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Come join the Center for Public Christianity for this important conversation on March 27 at Vintage Church downtown.

Center for Public Christianity is with Josh Chatraw at Vintage Church.

  · Raleigh, NC  · 

“What do Christianity and the #MeToo movement have in common? Much more than you think. Join us and explore this question with Karen Swallow Prior and director Josh Chatraw at the Center for Public Christianity’s first Public Forum on March 27.”

CHATRAW AND CT EDITOR /REVOICE LGBTQ THRIVING LEADER ANDY CROUCH /SOUTHERN BAPTIST CRT/BLT ADVOCATE /RESOLUTION 9 CRT AND INTERSECTIONALITY INFLEUNCER WALTER STRIKLAND AND OTHER KERN FUNDED OPERATIVES IN SEMINARIES

PROMOTING ACTIVIST AS “LEADING THINKERS”

Center for Public Christianity is in Raleigh, North Carolina.

  “This year’s class of New City Fellows has enjoyed the privilege of learning and hearing from an incredibly rich diversity of leading Christian thinkers and practitioners.”

“Become a New City Fellow and learn from leaders like these. Grow as a disciple with other emerging leaders. Integrate faith, work, and culture. Learn how to seek the welfare of our city.”

“Applications for the next class due May 1st. Learn more at centerforpublicchristianity.org“

CONCLUSION

Seminaries have always been battlegrounds and the chosen turf for progressive and leftist take overs of Christian movements. Some who go into ministry are not really called of God and some admittedly are not truly born again so they cannot discern the difference between the Bible and progressive ideologies wrapped in bible verses. But this new generation of students, faculty and seminaries face an even greater threat in the intense focus of massive amounts of money and infuence being brought to bear on the seminaries. This is being done in order to MOVE THE CHURCH LEFT POLITICALLY and remove the church from hindering the globalist anti- gospel agenda .The plan goes DEEPER to even co-opt the energies, vision and wealth of the church as well as next genration Christians into global goals schemes to enslave human kind. Ironically it is the church and true believers who are entrusted by Jesus with the VERY KEYS to set the captives FREE.

Lord rend the heavens and come down. Meanwhile beloved- do not hire anyone coming out of these tainted institutions like Beeson unless you want their WOKE infections or are willing to vet their worldview and ideology and you can help them escape its influence before putting them in a place of influence.

Peter Confesses Jesus as the Christ

¹³ When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, “Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?”

¹⁴ So they said, “Some say John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”

¹⁵ He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?”

¹⁶ Simon Peter answered and said, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”

¹⁷ Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. ¹⁸ And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.” ¹⁹ “And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.”

Matthew 10

Sending Out the Twelve

⁵ These twelve Jesus sent out and commanded them, saying: “Do not go into the way of the Gentiles, and do not enter a city of the Samaritans. ⁶ But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. ⁷ And as you go, preach, saying, ‘The kingdom of heaven  is at hand.’ ⁸ Heal the sick,  cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give. ⁹ Provide neither gold nor silver nor copper in your money belts, ¹⁰ nor bag for your journey, nor two tunics, nor sandals, nor staffs; for a worker is worthy of his food.

¹¹ “Now whatever city or town you enter, inquire who in it is worthy, and stay there till you go out. ¹² And when you go into a household, greet it. ¹³ If the household is worthy, let your peace come upon it. But if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you. ¹⁴ And whoever will not receive you nor hear your words, when you depart from that house or city, shake off the dust from your feet. ¹⁵ Assuredly, I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city!”

USING THE “STAR POWER” OF A TGC/REVOICE SEXUAL “WOKE JUSTICE ” CRU ACTIVIST RACHEL GILSON- THE ERLC FACEBOOK GRANT FUNDED TECH AND INTERNET ETHICIST JASON THACKER , A UNION UNIVERSITY DEAN , JUSTICE INFILTRATED SEBTS, AND INTERFAITH- UNIVERSALIST THEISTIC EVOLUTION DRIVEN FUNDING FROM TEMPLETON FOUNDATION -THIS MOVEMENT AND EVENT WITHIN THE SBC 2023 SETS OUT TO RE-SHAPE YOUR GEN Z CHILDREN.

RevThomas Littleton

6/ 10/2023

If you are tracking with the Southern Baptist RAPID DECLINE and are going to ask “how is this happening” -then look no further than the funding entanglements behind an upcoming event at the 2023 SBC in New Orleans aimed at “ReForming Gen Z”. It is a tainted- filthy – and corrupt reveal behind the spreading leaven of “woke justice” and universalist /interfaith / trending merger of faith and science/ social change on LGBTQ+ /race based Critical Theory /Intersectionality and even Facebook asserted controls on how the internet is used and the flow of information to Christians.

Recently the schedule for the Southern Baptist Conventions annual meetings to be held this coming week in New Orleans in 2023 were announced. Besides the usual corruptions creeping in during recent decades – one of this years events aimed toward next generation- GEN Z Baptist is most disturbing because of the participants, the goals it has set forth and the horrific funding behind it.

Jun 12

Re-Forming Gen Z: Sexuality, Technology, and Human Formation

“Re-Forming Gen Z: Sexuality, Technology and Human Formation“

About this event

“Jacob Shatzer of Union University, Jason Thacker of Boyce College, and Rachel Gilson of Cru join us to discuss the challenges facing Gen Z and how we can equip them with the gospel. We are excited to host this conversation with those serving today’s college students and helping us to better understand these challenges and hold to the hope we have in the gospel.”

“This event is hosted by the L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. This event is part of a larger project titled “Being Human: Theology and Praxis” made possible through the support of a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. We thank the Foundation for its generosity, and we pray that our efforts will prove helpful for facilitating thoughtful dialogue and fruitful ministry.”

Organized byL. Russ Bush Center for Faith & Culture

L. Russ Bush Center for Faith & Culture
Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary
919-761-2190

FACTS ABOUT THE FUNDING HAVE BEEN DOCUMENTED FOR MANY YEARS NOW

SEBTS is sponsoring this SBC event with its “Center for Faith and Culture”. Seminaries “Centers for Faith and Culture ” have been infiltrated by the socialist economics and leftist driven justice called “Faith & Works “- for the “Common Good” indoctrination for over a decade. The curriculum has been provided by Libertarian think tanks like Acton Institute fronted by voices like Tim Keller and Russell Moore and funded by Kern Family Foundation. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary SEBTS has been involved in this network of influence and funding since 2009. SEBTS represents the leading edge of the social justice /WOKE error among SBC institutions. The grants are ongoing since 2009 at SEBTS and almost ALL conservative seminaries- including other SBC seminaries took the funding. These grants are overseen by Kern Family Foundations Oikonomia Network which is also a major partner with The Gospel Coaltion and the social “WOKE” justice errors in once conservative Christian higher education institutions .

“The Kern Family Foundation Grants Significant Funding to SEBTS for New Courses”

“The Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Family Foundation has awarded Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) a grant of over $200,000. The grant will fund initiatives concerning faith, work and economics in academic classes.”

“Provost and Dean of Faculty and Associate Professor of Theology and Culture at SEBTS, Bruce Ashford, said, “I am profoundly grateful to The Kern Family Foundation for its willingness to assist with the resources necessary to carry out this project.”

( NOTE- Provost and Dean Bruce Ashford has since left SEBTS -is divorced and was recently involved in accusations from a passenger in his

“The Kern Family Foundation, through their Oikonomia Network, is committed to preparing pastors “to describe work and the economy in moral and spiritual terms” in order to “help people live out Christianity full-time in all they do.”
 
The faith, work and economics classes will enable pastors to grasp a deeper understanding of these topics to instill in their congregations. “SEBTS’ Economic Wisdom project is designed to help pastors strike the right note in leading their congregations toward a healthy, biblically-based view of the workplace and the economy,” Ashford said.”….”A forum with a nationally acclaimed speaker will be held in the coming months in partnership with The Kern Family Foundation and The L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture and The Spurgeon Center at SEBTS.”
 
“It is difficult to overstate our gratefulness to God for The Kern Family Foundation and their foresight in making this initiative possible. Real-world issues that emerge at the intersections of faith, work and economics are not peripheral, but central, to the Christian life,” Ashford said. “This grant affords Southeastern an unprecedented opportunity to develop a robust series of courses that will serve as the backbone of a world-class preparation benefitting current and future pastors as they lead their flock to glorify Christ in all aspects of their daily lives.”

SEBTS AND THE TEMPLETON FOUNDATION FUNDING FOR THIS EFFORT & EVENT

NOTE- Templeton is the primary funding behind the “Merger of Faith and Science ” or what is known in Christian circles as “Theistic Evolution” via ( among others ) William Lane Craig apologetics and Francis Collins, Tim Keller promoted BioLogos. Templeton funds this effort on an interfaith level to the tune of $150 million per year and BioLogos for example gets north of $4 million of its $9 plus million annual budget from Templeton Foundation.

Templeton also promotes a growing Interfaith /Multi faith dialog and has in the past stated that its funding grants are lead by their principle to fund religious organizations which adhere to no sacred text”.

THE FRUIT?

As a result of the BioLogos /Templeton influence across the Christian churches, movements, institutions apologetics spectrum The validiity of a Young Earth and high view of scriptural creation and time line of Genesis 1-11 are now under serious assault WITHIN THE CHURCH AND MANY CHRISTIAN INSTITUTIONS.

NOTE TEMPLETON IS ALSO SEEKING TO INFILITRATE CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AT EVERY LEVEL

READ MORE HERE

TEMPLETON TARGETS CHRISTIAN EDUCATION WITH INTERFAITH DIALOG & SCIENCE /FAITH MERGER IN MULTI-FRONT ASSAULT & GLOBAL DECEPTION.

SAMPLES OF TEMPLETON SCIENCE AND FAITH FUNDING

“BioLogos Public Engagement: Inviting The Church And The World To See The Harmony Between Science And Biblical Faith:”

A nonprofit spurs conversations about science and Christianity at conventions, churches, and campuses.

BioLogos Foundation might be described as taking the work of the ivory tower down to the ground floor…

)Saints must read and consider this carefully -) again about BioLogos

“A nonprofit spurs conversations about science and Christianity at conventions, churches, and campuses.

“Much of what Ted Davis does as Fellow of the History of Science for the BioLogos Foundation might be described as taking the work of the ivory tower down to the ground floor.”

“I’m interested in bringing the best scholarship on science and Christianity out of the academy and onto the street,” says Davis, a professor of the history of science at Messiah College. Davis writes a biweekly online column for BioLogos about the role religious belief has played in shaping key developments in the history of science. In one column, for example, he explores the evolution of Darwin’s thought on God, faith, and science.”

“Making high-quality resources of this sort available to non-academic audiences was the inspiration behind BioLogos. The organization, launched in 2007, began as a place to discuss common reader questions about the book The Language of God by Francis Collins, leader of the Human Genome Project. “

NOTE Bio?Logos founder Collins was found to be lying to the public and media abotu his organizations and Fauci funding of “Gain of Function ” research in the lead up to the Covid 19 Pandemic -using burner phones and non official emails. Collins resigned the NIH soon after these issues were exposed. NOW his BioLogos focus on the church seems little impacted by his problematic involvement in the WuHan lab experiments exposure.

TEMPLETON TOPICS – CHRISTIAN AND INTERFAITH:

“Faith And Science Teaching: Enhancement Of Reach.”

“The Faith and Science Teaching (FAST) Project (Grant ID# 39689), herein referred to as “Phase 1,” worked to equip high school teachers to engage with big questions around faith and science with both confidence and creativity. All too often, religion and science classrooms limit the interaction of these topics to a debate about conflicting truth claims. During Phase 1, we identified a number of alternative (and much more fruitful) ways of integrating education at the intersection of faith and science. By addressing this arena of potential conflict with pedagogical excellence and faithful inquiry, teachers are freed up to both teach excellent science and promote the formation of virtues without discord or fear.”

“Religious Understandings Of Science-2015 “

“Contrary to polarized media reports covering religious attitudes toward science, initial interview data from the Religious Understandings of Science study reveals that many religious people think that their faith can be harmonious with science and share narratives about the positive intersections between belief and science. Through the combined depth of personal interviews and the breadth of a survey, we explore how religious Americans think through complex scientific issues. This project involves observing religious services, as well as several hundred personal interviews with religious people from a variety of traditions, including Catholics, Jews, Evangelicals, Muslims, and Mainline Protestants. To complement these personal interviews, we are conducting a nationally representative survey of 10,000 Americans. We will present our findings to academic scientists and suggest how they might more effectively communicate with religious communities. We will also provide the findings to congregations who participated in the study. This study is furthering productive conversation in the ongoing dialogue about science and religion.”

SEBTS CENTER AND TEMPLETON GRANT

June 2021 – May 2024

“Being Human: Theology And Praxis”

“The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), representing more than 47,000 churches and 15 million persons, recognizes a conflict between faith and science. The L. Russ Bush Center for Faith and Culture (CFC) at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary (SEBTS) seeks to create more openness among our faculty and 5,302 students, and model how respectful dialogue between faith and science can occur by focusing on the theme of what it means to be human. Convinced that “all truth is God’s truth,” we intend to reduce a conflict posture, especially in areas like evolution, and promote charitable and respectful dialogue. We aim to impact SBC scholars and seminary professors; SEBTS alumni; current and future SBC pastors, namely SEBTS students; and lay audiences.”

“To achieve this goal, we will pursue scholarly engagement activities around three core themes: Year 1-What it means to be human; Year 2-Human Formation and Flourishing; and Year 3-Humans and Technology. Twelve scholars will gather in annual multi-day interdisciplinary workshops and a scholar in residence program will bring scientists and theologians to campus. For SEBTS students, we will host an exclusive mentorship program. We will reinforce these activities for our students, alumni, and community via a major annual conference and a series of six to eight annual campus events. We will augment these with off-campus events, including closed door meetings between SBC leaders and scientists, and the production of online resources (20 articles, 12 podcasts, 10 videos per year). These activities will produce academic papers and books to influence the teaching and research of at least sixty-eight SBC scholars as well as reach more than a thousand pastors and seminary students and more than 1.6 million others via website traffic, podcast listens, and media coverage along with a million media impressions from our ad campaign. Finally, we seek to raise at least $500,000 towards a $1.5 million endowment for the CFC.”

ERLC FACEBOOK GRANT FUNDING FOR INTERNET AND TECHNOLOGY USE BY CHRISTIANS

ERLC’s Jason Thacker who is speaking at the SEBTS sponsored SBC event this coming week heads the FACEBOOK GRANT funded “Ethics for a Digital Age”.

(From Baptist Press article October 28 2021 )

“While the Digital Public Square is funded by the Cooperative Program, the SBC’s unified giving plan, Facebook Technologies LLC also provided a research grant after the effort was under way. Thacker provided assurances to the trustees and on the project’s website that Facebook has no direct or indirect oversight regarding the project.”

THE ERLC DIGITAL ETHICS PROJECT AND ITS AIM…WORKING WITH ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGEST CENSORSHIP OFFENDERS SOCIAL MEDIA TO ENSURE FREE SPEECH AND DRAFT ETHICAL GUIDELINES… REALLY ?

“Ethics for a Digital Age”

“Championing free speech and religious freedom in an increasingly polarized society”

“The digital age promised deep connections, rich communication, and more access to information than we could ever imagine. But while technology has brought incredible benefits and conveniences into our lives, it also has led to countless unintended consequences and deep ethical challenges that push us to consider how to live out our faith in a technological society.”

“The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is launching a new research project called the “Digital Public Square.” This project will provide resources to help you navigate this digital age and think through complex and crucial ethical challenges with biblical wisdom and insight.”

“The “Digital Public Square” will include leaders from across society who will answer questions like: What is the proper role of government in digital governance? How do I disciple others if they are being primarily shaped by technology? How do we champion free speech and religious freedom in an increasingly polarized society?“

“The ERLC will produce numerous resources for the church, business community, and government leaders on how to navigate the challenges of the digital public square in a way that upholds free expression and religious freedom, as well as contributes to a more civil and constructive public discourse across ideological and religious viewpoints. The project will focus on issues of Christian ethics — including the public nature of faith, religious freedom, hate speech/violence, seuxality/gender issues, pornography, objectionable content, misinformation, digital authoritarianism, and issues of discipleship in the digital age.”

“The project, Thacker said, will help answer such questions as:

• What is the proper role of government in digital governance?
• How do I disciple other people if they’re primarily being shaped by technology in their use and habits?
• How do we champion free speech and religious freedom in an increasingly polarized society?

NOTE THE ERLC IS ALSO PROMOTING ANOTHER EVENT AT SBC IN RACIAL UNITY

ERLC Unify Project
9:00 PM – 10:30 PM
New Orleans Convention Center • Room R06-R09, Level 2
More Info: https://erlc.com/sbc23/

This “Ethics and Unity “event has disgraced one term SBC WOKE -plagiarist President Ed Litton and an actiivst pastor who the SBCs NAMB used to split and accuse a conservative Florida church in Naples of Racism -excommunicating its members who refused to vote for the WOKE pastor Marcus Hayes.

ERLC’s New President Brent Leatherwood is also part of this Unify racial event . Leatherwood came straight from being ousted for creating division and undermining conservatives candidates and delgates in the TN GOP to be hired by now disgraced former ERLC head Russell Moore.

(You really cannot make this stuff up- THESE are the lead “ETHICISTS ” FOR THE SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION.)

LEATHERWOOD/ REVOICE AND THE 2018 DALLAS SBC

This author was also falsely accused at SBC 2018 event and removed from the building by armed Dallas police doing security for the SBC. This series of events came about because of this authors exposure of the ERLC UNDER-CURRENT ENDORSEMENT LGBTQ Thriving in the church “Revoice” movement which came out of SBTS . SBTS is the flagship Baptist Seminary where ERLC’s Moore was employed for 24 years. Leatherwood- the current ERLC President denies his role in having this author removed but the Dallas Police report and this authors account confirm the actual events. Also the ERLC/ the SBC Executive Committee Baptist event security told three radically different versions of the accusations and removal before settling on a #metoo style accusation against this author. NONE of those stories or versions fit with the detailed Dallas Police report from 2018. In short these people are not ethical or honest BUT they are in charge of the SBC.

NOTE – ERLC IN 2020 AFTER YEARS OF REVOICE CONTROVERSY AND HIGH LEVEL SBC DENIALS -ENDORSE REVOICE FOUNDER NATE COLLINS “ALL BUT INVISIBLE ” BOOK AS ITS PRIMARY SOURCE FOR A PARENTS GUIDE ON GENDER .

READ MORE HERE

RUSSELL MOORE’S ERLC FINALLY OWNS REVOICE-PROMOTING IT’S FOUNDER’S BOOK IN “PARENTS GUIDE TO GENDER”.

RACHEL GILSON-CRU WOKENESS AND REVOICE LGBTQ FLOURISHING

Rachel Gilson is a Sexual Minority activist often used to promote the SSA/SOGI agenda in conservative churches and events through her involvement with The Gospel Coalition / the ERLC and her job at CRU-formerly Campus Crusade. CRU is now totally WOKE and has expereinced a massive departure BY ITS long time base of private supporters, churches and missionaries. Tim Keller and RTS Orlando involved CRU is a sweeping justice driven “Community Development” /Faith Based Project in 2009 called “Seeking the Welfare of the City”. This effort launched the Polis Institute -which is a project of the Frankfurt School inspired Institutes for Advanced Studies in Cultuire at UVA is ALSO funded by Kern Family Foundation. Polis and Seeking the Welfare fo the City serve as a template for the Agenda 2030 / Sustainable Development Goals “City Reaching” models for church and parachurch missions organizations like CRU and the SBCs NAMB and IMB and promoted by justice driven false gospel epicenter Lausanne Movement.

GILSON’S BIO- BOOK, ROLE IN REVOICE LGBTQ THRIVING AND RECENT CONTROVERSIES ON GAY MARRIAGE:

“Revoice20 Talks: Rachel Gilson & Greg Coles – Sexuality and Terminology”

Gilson remains active in the divisive and controversial “Queer Theory” driven Revoice LGBTQ Thriving ” movement .

“Rachel Gilson serves on the leadership team for Theological Development and Culture at Cru and is the author of “Born Again This Way: Coming Out, Coming to Faith, and What Comes Next.” On May 18, a clip circulated on Twitter of her speaking to an audience, addressing the question of whether a person should leave a same-sex marriage if he or she becomes a Christian. “These are some very tender things,” Gilson emphasized. She encouraged the audience to be cautious in how they approach a couple in this situation, and she noted that discipleship is a “process.”

GILSON’S THINKING INFORMED BY APA/TGC/ REVOICE THOUGHT LEADER MARK YARHOUSE.

“I read Mark Yarhouse’s Understanding Gender Dysphoria and Vaughan Roberts’s Transgender.  These books were good introductions and formed much of the background I brought with me when I picked up Andrew Walker’s new entry into the field, God and the Transgender Debate.…”

Gilson also works closely with Revoice influencer and speaker Preston Sprinkle who holds two degrees from John MacArthur’s Masters Seminary and heads the Center for Faith Sexuality and Gender ” and “Theology in the Raw”.

“Podcast #780”

#780 – BORN AGAIN THIS WAY: RACHEL GILSON

Preston Sprinkle

” THEOLOGY IN THE RAW – Rachel has a fascinating story and a witty pen. She’s the director of theological development for the northeast for CRU and is the author of the forthcoming book “Born Again This Way.” She’s attracted to women, married to a man, and a loves studying and writing about Jesus, the Bible, and Christianity. We talked a lot about her interesting journey to faith and how she’s wrestled with her faith and her sexuality.”

“Rachel Gilson serves on the national theological team for Cru. She regularly speaks to churches and students nationally and internationally, especially on the topic of biblical sexuality. Her writing has appeared in places such as Christianity Today, The Gospel Coalition, and Desiring God, and her first book, Born Again This Way (The Good Book Company) will be out March 1. Rachel holds a Master of Divinity and lives in Boston with her husband and daughter.”

(NOTE GILSON IS ALSO SPEAKING AT THE SBCS “PASTORS WIVES/WOMEN’S CONFERENCE ON “IMAGO DEI ” CREATED IN HIS IMAGE FEMALE )

SBC Pastors’ Wives Conference
9:00 AM – 11:45 AM
New Orleans Convention Center • Great Hall

ALSO A KEY UNION UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR WHO DISPLAYS AN OBSESSION ON TRANSHUMANISM IS INVOLVED IN THE TEMPLETON FUNDED SEBTS EVENT in EW ORLEANS

JACOB SHATZER

Associate Professor of Theological Studies

Associate Provost and Dean of Instruction

BIOGRAPHY

“Jacob Shatzer has served at Union since 2017. Before that he taught at Sterling College and Palm Beach Atlantic University. Jacob teaches Bible, theology, and ethics and has written on topics ranging from theological hermeneutics to transhumanism to the integration of faith and learning. Along with his work in the School of Theology & Missions, he also serves the broader university as associate provost and dean of instruction, providing leadership in curriculum and faculty development.”

CONCLUSION

The Southern Baptist Convention is in trouble…BIG TROUBLE . It’s poor handling of the # MeToo/ # ChurchToo movement and sexual abuse accusations caused its entity heads, trustees and Executive Committee to form multiple “TASK FORCE ” and to hire a massive DE&I compliance organization Guidepost Solutions and its new start up “Faith Based Solutions” to investigate- form a “credibly accused data base ” AND to begin the work of DE&I compliance and “Culture Change” with in the SBC. This is already taking place in the top entites and will soon be trickling down into all of the 47,000 plus SBC churches.

The DE&I CRUSH and Compliance is on its way. MARK THIS STREET PREACHERS WORDS!

GUIDEPOST SOLUTIONS/FAITH BASED SOLUTIONS

“Our substantial institutional integrity practice works with domestic and global religious institutions and parachurch organizations from all faiths and practices on a variety of cultural, compliance and investigative matters. We understand the challenges that faith-based organizations face in identifying, addressing and preventing issues such as sexual harassment and abuse. We are experts in assessing cultural and organizational risks and providing concrete steps to facilitate change.”

Service Offerings ( AMONG MANY OTHERS )

CULTURAL ASSESSMENT

“Comprehensive review of the institution’s culture and develop plan for transformative change.

• A culture assessment helps determine if there are systemic and underlying issues relating to awareness, prevention, response, and cultural atmosphere within the institution regarding allegations or suspicions of harassment, fraudulent conduct, sexual abuse, and misconduct
• Input of key stakeholders critical to success
• Develop an implementation plan to make changes, as appropriate”

JEREMIAH 2 : ⁴ Hear the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob and all the families of the house of Israel. ⁵ Thus says the Lord:

“What injustice have your fathers found in Me,
That they have gone far from Me,
Have followed idols,
And have become idolaters?
⁶ Neither did they say, ‘Where is the Lord,
Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,
Who led us through the wilderness,
Through a land of deserts and pits,
Through a land of drought and the shadow of death,
Through a land that no one crossed
And where no one dwelt?’
⁷ I brought you into a bountiful country,
To eat its fruit and its goodness.
But when you entered, you defiled My land
And made My heritage an abomination.
⁸ The priests did not say, ‘Where is the Lord?’
And those who handle the law did not know Me;
The rulers also transgressed against Me;
The prophets prophesied by Baal,
And walked after things that do not profit.