A Second Great Awakening
I've listened to every word of Bethel's response to the Mike Winger exposure video of Shawn Bolz. I've read the responses on X. There are some really good things that Kris and Bill had to say. There were also some problematic things. I will address all of them here. If you're not aware, last week, Mike Winger dropped a 6-hour video on YouTube exposing the false prophet Shawn Bolz, not only for using Facebook to bring "words of knowledge" (a charismatic way of saying prophecy) to people, but also for being sexually abusive and perverse. It lit a firestorm, and
Is Marketing Jesus Killing the Church?
My last article, which several thousand of you read (thank you so much), apparently struck a chord. It's becoming undeniably clear that something is fundamentally broken about the modern Church movement in the West. Too many are leaving disenchanted, confused, hurt, broken, and even questioning their faith. If it were only me, I would have shrugged it off as some sort of personal deficiency or misunderstanding. But I have heard from hundreds of you over the last few days, reaching out (mostly anonymously) to tell me you've experienced the same things I did -- namely abuse and a woeful lack
Deconstructing My Deconstruction
I began writing this article in February 2023. Scratch that. I began wrestling with the content of this post in January 2020, but I hadn't been able to articulate it until now. Even so, you can see that it's January 2024 and I'm just now posting it. There are reasons for that, too, which I will get into later. I haven't really shared my story. I've held a lot back and there are lot of reasons for that. But it's time. 2023 brought for me and my family some huge changes -- from walking away from our church denomination of
