Archive | March 2014
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Rethinking Matthew 18 – Gossip Control and the “Can’t Talk” Rule
Editor’s note: This is a re-post from Dr. Stephen Crosby’s blog, “Sword of the Kingdom.” This article about the “Can’t Talk” rule explains how authoritarian church leaders misuse the church discipline process in Matthew 18 to stifle dissent. It is an excellent article, used by permission. For my related post on “Church Leaders and the […]
The Lion Makers: Fred Phelps and the Outcome of Cult Leaders
In India, there were four Brahmans who set out on a journey. Three of them were highly educated but had little common sense. The fourth had little education but good sense. As they journeyed through a field, the first Brahman said to the second and third, “Through our own efforts and hard work we have […]
What Mark Driscoll Can Teach Us About Church Leadership
In his recent article, “Mark Driscoll’s Problems, and Ours,” Carl R. Trueman pens a thoughtful synopsis of the crisis in church leadership in the Reformed movement as seen through the lens of Mark Driscoll’s latest faux pas — a lesson applicable, of course, to other Christian movements and churches. Carl R. Trueman is Paul Woolley […]
Brainwashing Writ Large: Vladimir Putin and the Crimean Crisis
For 25 years I was a member of a Bible cult. One of the first questions people ask me when they discover this is, “How could any intelligent person get sucked in by a group like that?” Many people wonder how cult members can believe the mind-bending interpretations of their cult leader, when the reality […]
Liberty for Captives 