The TheoBros just can’t stop hating on Russell Moore. The current editor of Christianity Today and the former acolyte of Al Mohler, Moore has become a lightning rod for the far-right Calvinists who see him as someone who sold out…
Hegseth’s nomination fits the TheoBro pattern creating abuse culture
Given the state of their churches, it makes total sense that conservative evangelicals would elect a president who has a history of bragging about sexual assault. And it also makes sense that this sexually abusive president would nominate five people…
Texas pastor posts ‘I Voted’ selfie and gets smacked down by the religious right
Last Friday morning, Texas pastor Zach Lambert tweeted a selfie of him with his “I Voted” sticker with a 13-word description: Straight, White, Male, Lifelong Texan, Lifelong Christian, Local Church Pastor, Kamala Harris voter.” Before he could deliver a Sunday…
Du Mez warns of alliance of TheoBros, TechBros and oil millionaires
To understand the sinister forces working to influence the November election, pay close attention to the expanding alliance between religious, political and economic powers arrayed against American democracy, scholar Kristin Kobes Du Mez writes in a recent Substack post. The…
What Ron DeSantis and the TheoBros share in common
The headline in The Atlantic declared: “The Cost of Ron DeSantis’ Ideological Purity.” That got my attention, because “ideological purity” is big theme among religious conservatives these days — especially among that group we sometimes call the TheoBros. Those are…
Russell Moore named editor in chief of Christianity Today
The man the TheoBros love to hate has been named editor in chief of the nation’s flagship magazine for evangelical Christians. Russell Moore, former head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, was announced Aug. 4 as…
While SBC weeps over sexual abuse allegations, the TheoBros take on Beth Allison Barr one more time
While most anyone concerned about religion in America spent May 23 still digesting the 300-page report of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Sexual Abuse Task Force, a group advocating male headship had another topic in mind: The horrors of Beth Allison…
How the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy became a litmus test
“Do you affirm the doctrine of inerrancy as articulated in the Chicago Statement?” demands Denny Burk, professor at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, tweeting his line in the sand to defend what he thinks are attacks against historic orthodoxy by the ever-so-dangerous…
Beth Moore is not the first Baptist to journey to the Anglican Church
When Beth Moore left the Southern Baptist Convention in 2021 and soon after was seen in a photo serving Communion at an Anglican church, the social media outrage became a reminder that few people seem to rile up Southern Baptist…