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Into the Breach of Your Wallet: How Josh Howerton’s Lakepointe Church Reframes Corporate Expansion as “Discipleship”

If you want to understand how the modern megachurch corporate...

The Memory Hole Megachurch: Josh Howerton, the Scrubbed Mandate, and the Art of Cultural Camouflage

If there is one defining characteristic of the modern megachurch...

Selective Litigation: Why Did Jeff Durbin Sue a critical Blogger But not Steven Anderson?

​When a public figure chooses the secular courtroom as his...

Justin peters & The Necessity of Proximity: Why “Remote Elders” Fall Short of Biblical Shepherding

Let it be stated at the outset: Justin Peters is...

Josh Howerton: Product or Pastor?

In the modern megachurch industrial complex, the line between a...

The Self-Made Shepherd: Jeff Durbin, Corporate Ordination, and the Marketing of the Ministry

Editor’s note: Jeff Durbin disputes the veracity of this article....

Grave Robbing for Triumphalism: Jeff Durbin and the Postmillennial Mirage

There is a long, disgraceful history in online religion of...

The Ecumenical Grift of Joel Webbon’s “Christ Is King” Circus

There was a time when the word reformation actually meant...

Introducing “The Classic Polemicist”

There was a time in the digital theological landscape when...

The new Christian wrong: American history x goes to church

Hey. It’s Pulpit & Pen, the Rolex of watch blogs....

Hell Is for Real – Part 2

This is part 2 of a guest post series by...

The Joel Webbon And Jordan Hall Partnership

Jordan Hall is my friend, one of my best friends....

The Worst Christian of 2025

Who is the worst Christian of 2025? On the surface,...

Nominees: Worst Christian of 2025

Who out there, among the professing, has had the most...

it’s Newspring, Stupid: “pastor” Meredith knox and pentecostal Ron Phillips

I don’t write a lot of blogs anymore: work, raising...

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