The Church Manual actually codifies several ways in which powers and authorities in the Church are limited exactly because authority in the church rests in the membership, not in power-grasping bullies.
Read moreThe Powers That Be and The Flaws of Fulcrum7
Groupthink is in. Reasoning is verboten. No matter that none of the younger class really know what the new world will look like. Just think like the herd. Fake it till' you make it. You can be part of the herd too.
Read moreGAFCON Fires Archbishop of Canterbury - Lessons for Adventists
The history of the past few decades has seen very substantial denominational splitting and reconstitution, almost always over the same constellation of issues involving women in ministry and LGBTQ accommodation.
Read moreBisexual German Pastor Must be Removed
What happens when God’s order is replaced by a buffet of sexual “identities?” By proclaiming he is bisexual, and suggesting that bisexuality is a non-negotiable part of his person, Gunjevic endorses the contemporary buffet.
Read moreChurch of England Votes Same-Sex Blessing
Participants in the debate warned that this was a red line, that the decision would cause great damage to the global communion, but the decision was made anyway.
Read moreIs mRNA Entering our Food Supply?
Some of us have for years avoided avoided the use of meat products because of the extensive use of growth hormones and antibiotics in factory farming.
Read moreRevolution 1989—Kirkpatrick Reacts
Renting or lending a typewriter was forbidden and every typewriter owner had to have authorization from the militia, with that process repeated every years.
Read moreThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism—Kirkpatrick Reacts (part 2)
The results of social control and influence in this collectivist hive are already in-process. The voting patterns and moral attitudes of the age 30 and under group are deeply influenced by the signals and ideas propagated and amplified by Big Other.
Read moreThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism—Kirkpatrick Reacts (part 1)
And so, we are up against not simply state-level power, but an invasive, corporate, mercantile machine—an impersonal, morally-indifferent, digital succubus, collecting every possible scrap of data about us.
Read moreHitchens: Seizure of Power over the Mind—Kirkpatrick Reacts
I'm not here to incite gloom. But I want you to see it happening today, and have your part in preventing it from becoming reality tomorrow—at least in your church.
Read moreAre we in a Mass Formation?
Congregations have found themselves divided in surprising new ways. We appear to be in a mass formation event akin to the French Revolution, but adapted to a rapidly changing technocratic age.
Read morePreaching in Hitler's Shadow—Kirkpatrick Reacts, pt. 2
In exchange for recognition and an appearance of legitimacy, in practice, coopted leadership acts to minimize the influence of "true believers." Members that are the most earnest and serious are marginalized.
Read morePreaching in Hitler's Shadow—Kirkpatrick Reacts, pt. 1
And so, we should be interested in the messages given to believers trapped under Nazi oppression. We should learn from their failures and successes in living their faith, for today's society is free-falling into a new totalitarianism.
Read moreThe Christian and Programmable Money (CBDCs)
Replacing cash with the use of programmable CBDCs could sharply tilt power from the everyday citizen toward government and corporate overlords. Social engineering could speed the end of both secular and religious freedom.
Read moreThe Priesthood of Experts?
In the Seventh-day Adventist Church, health is not a cordoned-off domain where lady justice, pink hair flying and nose rings flaring, bars God’s entry with flaming sword.
Read moreOrdinary Men: Reserve Police Batallion 101
Normal individuals enter an 'agentic state' in which they are the instrument of another's will. In such a state, they no longer feel personally responsible for the content of their actions but only for how well they perform.
Read moreClergy for Conscience Declaration: What is it?
Nation-states declared a global health emergency in 2020 and overran individual conscience, while no major religious denominations offered substantive support for individual rights of conscience.
Read moreBonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy
The Nazis worked relentlessly to take over the church, with most Germans happy with their new leader. Rules were eventually made requiring all pastors to take an oath of obedience to the Fuhrer. Most pastors took the oath.
Read moreThe Real Anthony Fauci
Look out your window and see; it is as though the whole world is taken captive, riding aboard a speeding train, and headed toward a technocratic rainbow destination which we will learn too late—is only a mirage.
Read moreThe Blind Shall See, But What Then We?
This — this is scary, metaphysically scary. In contrast to hapless human mismanagement, this darkness has the tinge of the pure, elemental evil that underlay and gave such hideous beauty to the theatrics of Nazism…
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