Demonstrating an uncanny ability to make most things revolve around himself, as well as the inability to let things go, James White used the stage at G3 to defend his ill-advised interfaith dialogue with a radical Muslim extremist (who White insists is a moderate, despite the evidence), Yasir Qahdi. White, who recently resigned his position … Read more
John Gray is the high-rolling pastor who’s heavily associated with Joel Osteen and Oprah, who made headlines in recent weeks for bizarre behavior. First, he told church members to come up and pilfer the offering plates. Second, he gave his wife a Lamborgini. Third, he confessed to having cheated on his wife, with the car … Read more
James White, the “Scholar in Residence” at Apologia Church and host of The Dividing Line podcast, had some tough words for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. He posted the following on his public Facebook page. He wrote… I received an email soliciting donations for the Southern Baptist ERLC (The … Read more
[Warren Throckmorton] From where I sit in small town PA (usually at a fast food place with good WiFi), it appears that there are some similarities between the last couple of years at Mars Hill Church and the current situation at Harvest Bible Chapel. Elders and Leadership Style At MHC, trouble had been brewing for … Read more
[Julie Roys] James MacDonald and the senior leaders of the Chicago-area megachurch, Harvest Bible Chapel (HBC), operate with “deceitfulness and manipulation,” and are attempting “to run a cult and control the masses.” That’s according to Randy Williams, a current Harvest elder and former chairman of the executive committee (EC)—a group consisting of MacDonald and four to five elders, which … Read more
[World Magazine] Five years ago, Harvest Bible Chapel, a Chicago-area megachurch with multiple campuses and an average weekly attendance exceeding 12,000, sent shock waves through the Christian community when it publicly excommunicated two former elders and indirectly censured a third. The edict was news beyond Chicago because James MacDonald is Harvest’s pastor: His Walk in the Word radio and … Read more
Apologia Church is the congregation that became embroiled in a controversy after the Christians News Network posted an article about a number of questionable fundraisers undertaken by the church. On two separate occasions, church members hosted separate events that exchanged booze and tattoos (respectively) for money designated to a Hawaii church plant. Christian News Network … Read more
James McDonald, whose megachurch joined the SBC in 2015, has been busy frivolously suing blogger-journalists for hurting his image by having the audacity to publish true things. Harvest Bible Church made McDonald step down from his position as “president” of the organization in 2017, but retaining him as a celebrity teacher. As Pulpit & Pen reported … Read more
James White has an important perspective in the Paige Patterson controversy in recent days particularly because he has never been a theological or political ally of Patterson and has a troublesome history and past with the former Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary president. And yet, White seems “woke” (but in a good way) when it comes … Read more
With James Riady, a corrupt Globalist and leftist financier funding Reformed Theological Seminary and other Calvinist-leaning institutions, and with George Soros funding projects of evangelicals like Russell Moore through his Open Societies Foundation, it’s reasonable to question whether or not outspoken individuals in our institutions are change agents for well-funded political causes. How do Marxists, … Read more
James White has been vicious toward anyone who criticizes hyper-charismaniac false prophet, Michael Brown. White, who supposedly holds to the 1689 London Baptist Confession, is supposed to believe that Cessationism and the Sufficiency of Scripture are of primary importance. After all, his Confession of Faith reads… The Holy Scripture is the only sufficient, certain, and infallible … Read more
More subtle is the denial of the truth that there are three divine Persons — the Father, the Son, and the Spirit. The denial of this truth leads to modalism…For some reason many feel that there is a hierarchy of “error” when it comes to the Trinity. It is really bad to be a polytheist. … Read more
A caller phoned in to ask Dr. Michael Brown if Oneness Pentecostals were saved. This is his response. “It’s actually a debate within the body.” “They sounded completely orthodox to me.” Brown then appealed to his “good friend” James White, who has completely affirmed Brown as orthodox, who in turn affirms Oneness Pentecostals who deny the … Read more
James White is in sinful error. He has gone from doing some merely unwise things to clearly sinful things, and he is digging in as hard and fast as he can go while beginning to disqualify himself from Christian ministry right before our eyes. White has resorted to ad hominem attacks, sadly against some of … Read more
[Editor’s Note: We are republishing this article and ask people to consider James White and Elephant Room 3 while reading it. It was originally published in the Reformation Montana (print) journal several years ago] “We have said, with deep grief that we should have had to say it, that many ministers have departed from the … Read more
