In 2021, infamous Hillsong NYC pastor, Carl Lentz, was fired after he admitted that allegations of a sexual affair with an Islamic woman were true. Since then, Hillsong founder and CEO, Brian Houston, has been embroiled in his own controversies as sex...
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Union Seminary Hires Sikh as Professor of Religion
Union Theological Seminary has a storied history that dates back to its Presbyterian founding in 1836. Despite its origins, the seminary has always been a center for liberalism, never truly grounding itself in the Scriptures or the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Over the...
Todd White Says That Jesus’s Disciples Were Not Saved or Born Again
Todd White is a charlatan of the highest order, masquerading as a preacher and pastor. His supposed "healings" are nothing more than cheap parlor tricks, and his association with known false prophets and heretics should be a red flag to anyone who encounters him. But...
Heavenly Hallucinations: Kat Kerr Prays to Give God Permission to Get Her Attention
Permit me to wax poetic, dear reader, and regale you with the fantastical musings of one Kat Kerr, a self-proclaimed "prophetess" of the most curious sort. This pink-haired seer, who claims to have traversed the ethereal realms of Heaven thousands of times, amuses us...
TGC Contributor and Former SBC Pastor Invites Lesbian Chicago Mayor Lightfoot to Preach in His Pulpit
In 2018, Charlie Dates, a prominent and well-known uber-woke pro-socialist Southern Baptist pastor partook in the MLK50 Conference that was jointly hosted by The Gospel Coalition and the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. At that...
The Holy Spirit is Not a Drug: Stop Blaspheming Him
It is with great conviction and fervor that I declare, in the words of the esteemed Charles Dickens, that we are currently living in a period of both unparalleled excellence and unmitigated despair for the cause of evangelicalism. While the latter may serve to...
Rick Warren Suggests He Did Better Than Jesus, Brags He Baptized 57 Thousand People
Upon perusing a recent discourse with the "highly-esteemed" former pastor of Saddleback Church, Rick Warren, I was struck with a sense of familiarity, as if I were listening to none other than the notorious and boastful Donald Trump himself. Though the latter is...
Charismatic Pastor in Zimbabwe Calls “Heaven” During Service and Speaks to “God”
Pastor Paul Sanyangore of Victory World International from Zimbabwe claims he has God's phone number and calls heaven during one of his church services. "Hello, Hello," Sanyangore says on the telephone as he speaks to God. "Is this Heaven?" With a woman in the...
Andy Stanley Preaches Sermon Trashing the Bible as Non-Factual, Inadequate
Andy Stanley's disdain for the Holy Scriptures is a well-established fact, and it is nothing new that he has been vocal in his condemnation of the inerrancy and authority of the Word of God. He has gone so far as to declare the Scriptures to be indefensible and...
SBC Megachurch Worships to Song by Bisexual Lesbian and Images of Martin Luther King Jr.
The Old Testament is replete with examples of men and women who failed to abide by the commandments that God set forth for His creation, particularly as it pertained to worship. One such instance is that of Cain, the progeny of Adam and Eve, whose worship was rejected...
Joe Biden Preaches Social Justice “Sermon” at Raphael Warnock’s Atlanta Church
On the 94th birthday of Martin Luther King Jr, President Joe Biden delivered a sermon at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, which is led by "pro-choice pastor" Senator Raphael Warnock. At the historic church, where King himself once preached, Biden's...
Ukraine Presents Itself as Michael the Archangel Battling Satan at Miss Universe Contest in New Orleans
Oh, the irony of it all! The Miss Universe contest, a pageant of beauty and elegance, was graced with the presence of the Ukrainian delegation, adorned in the most saccharine and sacrosanct of garbs. Draped in a costume of pure, unadulterated white and gold, they...
Jackie Hill Perry Repents of Using and Promoting the Enneagram, Calls it Demonic
The Enneagram, which is touted as a way–apart from the Scriptures–to gain insight into one’s “true self,” restoring balance and developing more desirable qualities to one’s personality and reaching a state of spiritual “freedom,” is a system of personality typing and...
Popular Rising Star in Contemporary Christian Music is Putting Out Nothing but Garbage
As we've been covering at The Dissenter, charismatic-style worship music has been gaining influence in mainstream Evangelical and Protestant churches. One up-and-coming artist we've been keeping tabs on is Charity Gayle. Despite her background in Oneness...
Heresy of the Day #19: Macedonianism / Pneumatomachianism
Macedonianism, also known as the Pneumatomachian heresy, is a pernicious belief system that emerged in the early 4th century and was propagated by the heretical Greek bishop Macedonius. This insidious heresy denies the personhood of the Holy Spirit and diminishes the...
“Christian” Psychic Readings and Tarot Cards Continue to Grow in Popularity
Christalignment is a false Christian group based out of Melbourne, Australia that has aligned itself with the cult of Bethel Church. Christalignment is well-known for its "Christian" version of tarot card readings and other occult practices. A few years ago,...
Social Justice Coalition Attacks Owen Strachan and Starts an “Inclusive” Story Hour at Libraries to Counter Him
The Drag Queen Story Hour phenomenon is a vile, disgusting, and reprehensible attempt to normalize sexual perversion and groom innocent children into accepting and embracing it. It is utterly abhorrent that the Coalition for Social Justice is so shamelessly and...
Highly Influential False Teacher, Jack Hayford, Dies at 88
Jack Hayford, a highly influential charismatic Evangelical leader, has passed away at 88. Hayford, who composed more than 500 charismatic hymns in the modern worship scene, was highly influential in is largely responsible for a lot of the mainstream charismatic...
Celebrity Megapastor Mike Todd Says You Can Go to Gay Bars and Still Be a Christian and Member of His Church
Pastor Mike Todd of the Transformation Church has been growing in popularity at an alarming rate, despite his repulsive and controversial behavior. Earlier this year, Todd made headlines for turning tithing into a million-dollar lottery, using his congregants as...
Heresy of the Day #18: Christian Science
The Christian Science cult, founded by the deceptive Mary Baker Eddy in the late 19th century, is a pernicious and dangerous religious movement that promotes the unsubstantiated belief that spiritual healing techniques can cure all physical illnesses and suffering....
Church Worships to Song About Homosexual Men Loving Other Men
I often write about churches that put on blasphemous performances, are irreverent, and in many ways, blaspheme the name of God with their overt self-promoting performances. And I also often write about churches that put homosexuals, queers, and transgender people in...
Bethel Student Says Jesus Told Her to Forgive Unconscious Man’s Sins and He Will be Saved
This video is absolutely unbelievable as it depicts a girl spewing heretical nonsense about forgiving the sins of one of her patients. This disgraceful display took place at the 2008 graduation for the students of Bethel School of Ministry. Is this the kind of...