Apostasy

My Covid Year Reading: Knowing the Times

Keith Kauffman
Jul 7, 2021
The ability to ‘read the room’ is a really good life skill to have. What do I mean? Oftentimes one may get themselves in a fair bit of trouble if they, in whatever varied situation they find themselves in, are unable to grasp the particular demeanor or emotional temperature of the gathering...
Heaven mourns every deconversion.

The Celebration of Apostasy

Mortification of Spin
May 5, 2021
Walking away from the faith is a phenomenon as old as humanity itself…but a recent “twist” has emerged in how some high-profile Christians choose to abandon their beliefs. Today, Todd attempts to school Carl on the cyber world of TikTok as the dynamic duo discusses one recent and disturbing “...
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Mortification of Spin

"In" with the World

Kevin Vollema
Aug 19, 2019
Over the last few weeks, former pastor and Christian author Josh Harris has made a public resurgence through his shocking Instagram announcement. This is sad news, and we should mourn over it. When any supposed brother or sister in the faith announces they have fallen away--whether publicly or...

Leaving the Faith: Reflections of a Prodigal

Lisa Robinson Spencer
Aug 12, 2019
By now the firestorm of commentary around Josh Harris' public announcement--that he has not only divorced, but departed from the Christian faith--has died down. People have moved on, but not before delivering a slew of analysis, indictments, pleas, condemnation, and speculation. When the news hit...

How Not to Fall Away

William Boekestein
Aug 8, 2019
"I have undergone a massive shift in regard to my faith in Jesus. The popular phrase for this is 'deconstruction,' the biblical phrase is 'falling away.' By all the measurements that I have for defining a Christian, I am not a Christian." So was the recent confession by former pastor, Joshua Harris...

Et Tu, Brute?

Scott Oliphint
Feb 4, 2013
Jude 1:3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. It was March 15, sometimes called the "Ides of March." It was a day like any other day. But...

Et Tu, Brute?

Scott Oliphint
Feb 4, 2013
Jude 1:3 Beloved, although I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints. It was March 15, sometimes called the "Ides of March." It was a day like any other day. But...

Thoughts on an Impending Conversion (Which Should Have Been Foretold)

Carl Trueman
Jun 5, 2012
The news of the seeming impending conversion of Jason Stellman to Roman Catholicism will no doubt come as a shock to many who, in the small world of confessional Presbyterianism, probably know of him best either as the man who led the prosecution of Peter Leithart in the PCA's Presbytery of the...

Thoughts on an Impending Conversion (Which Should Have Been Foretold)

Carl Trueman
Jun 5, 2012
The news of the seeming impending conversion of Jason Stellman to Roman Catholicism will no doubt come as a shock to many who, in the small world of confessional Presbyterianism, probably know of him best either as the man who led the prosecution of Peter Leithart in the PCA's Presbytery of the...