You should go hear Sean Feucht there sometime!

The fact is that kids are hearing verses that support such violence as the stoning and dismemberment of women, and then are being told that this is what inspired our Constitution and is what our nation needs to get back to. That's messed up. 3/3

It's to expose how harmful it can be to read these texts through an interpretational lens of the U.S. Constitution. Quite frankly, however you make sense of those passages is irrelevant. 2/3

This week, as America reads the Bible, we're learning that America doesn't know how to interpret the Bible. The reason I bring up the violent passages of Deuteronomy isn't to mock the Bible or to hate God. 1/3

Ep119: Mark Driscoll's Role in the Freedom 250 Event & How Complementarianism Sacralizes Violence Against Women, with Sheila Gregoire Two stories caught my attention over the past week — the White House denying shock jock pastor Mark Driscoll’s claims that Trump asked him to be the speaker for the main session to “rededicate the nat...

Complementarians brand their theology as spiritually healthy because they say men are to love their wives like Jesus. But the goodness of loving your wife like Jesus is dependent on what you think Jesus is like. Check out my interview with Sheila Gregoire about this. And subscribe to my Substack!

Weapons of Worship: How the Songs of Evangelicalism Form the Soundtrack of Extremism In a sweeping investigation into the music of megachurches and political rallies, a journalist asks: How did praise and worship music beloved by millions of white evangelicals become the soundtrack of...

Now according to Worship Leader Research, “Only 3.4% of Worship Leaders rate their mental health as excellent compared to 29% of U.S. adults, and 9 in 10 get no help at all.”

I think my Chapter Nine is onto something. 3/3
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Then through the chapter, I demonstrate how the entire service brings insecurity and anxiety for worship leaders. And the final line of the chapter is, “I sit there, a lump in my throat.” 2/3

Chapter Nine of my book is titled, “Sunday, Bloody Sunday.” I begin the chapter by taking the reader into the exciting process of planning a worship set. 1/3

Yep. The part about if a nation will humble themselves. No joke. That's what he's reading. lol.

Yes. Front to back. With worship from popular worship leaders throughout.

And if the kids are paying attention while eating their PB&J, they just heard a command for their dad to chop their mom's hand off and show her no pity if she happens to grab an attacker's genitals to defend her family. 2/2

Right now, evangelical families are eating lunch while listening to the entire Bible being read to the nation. They're being told this is God's Word for the United States. 1/2

Truth.

It's a totally reasonable question. Fruit has consequences.

He’ll read from 2 Chron. 7, where King Solomon rebuilds the temple and then God says, “If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.” 2/2

Ep118: How the Podcast Episode · Highest Power: Church + State · April 16 · 24m

I interviewed Warren Throckmorton about the America Reads the Bible event going on this week for Ep. 118 of “Highest Power: Church + State.” Now President Trump has been confirmed as one of the readers. 1/2

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Did the White House invite Mark Driscoll to rededicate the nation to Jesus? “Some moments only come once in 250 years,” Mark Driscoll claimed in an email to his supporters on Sunday, April 12.

I believe I finally got to the bottom of it today. rickpidcock.substack.com/p/did-the-wh...

Did the White House invite Mark Driscoll to rededicate the nation to Jesus? “Some moments only come once in 250 years,” Mark Driscoll claimed in an email to his supporters on Sunday, April 12.

I got to the bottom of it today. rickpidcock.substack.com/p/did-the-wh...

Did the White House invite Mark Driscoll to rededicate the nation to Jesus? “Some moments only come once in 250 years,” Mark Driscoll claimed in an email to his supporters on Sunday, April 12.

Mark Driscoll's team has doubled down on the claim that the White House asked him to speak at their May 17th event to rededicate the nation to Jesus, despite the White House denying it. I spoke to both parties today. Here are the details!
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According to Driscoll, it's "the biggest honor of his ministry career." But according to the event organizers, it's not real. I've reached out to Driscoll's team for comment. We'll see if they respond.

But now according to a representative of the event, "Mark Driscoll is not a speaker." It's unclear at this point why Driscoll's team would've sent that email. 2/2

Earlier this week, I shared that Mark Driscoll sent an email to his subscribers with the Subject line "🇺🇸President Trump asked Pastor Mark for help." Driscoll's email claimed "Pastor Mark has been invited to preach the main session that will be live-streamed to the nation." 1/2

The fruit of religious and non-religious patriarchy is the abuse of women. The solution is not to double down on patriarchy, but to root it out down to the religious and non-religious motivations that feed it. 2/2

The fact that many complementarians are responding to the 62 million visits to that website by claiming the problem is feminism and that we need even more submission of women to men is quite revealing. 1/2

Sixty two million visits to that website in one month explains why men like Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes are so popular among young men. It's also a sign for the church that it should completely deconstruct any theology that sacralizes male authority over women.

Then everyone you listen to will sound drunk, which can be pretty entertaining depending on the speaker and the subject.

One of the funniest little known details about Sean Feucht to me is that he worked on starting a worship school called "Hillside." Given the prominence during the 2010s of Hillsong, Feucht's Hillside always reminds me of McDowell's in "Coming to America."

Why are there constantly groups of white Christian nationalists worshipping at the White House? I'm basically posting these Christian nationalist worship events in our government buildings on a daily basis at this point. Someone should write a book about it.

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Ep118: How the Podcast Episode · Highest Power: Church + State · April 16 · 24m

On tonight's episode of "Highest Power: Church + State," I interview Warren Throckmorton, author of "The Christian Past That Wasn't: Debunking the Christian Nationalist Myths That Hijack History" about the claim that the U.S. was founded as a Christian nation.
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