You searched for The Gospel Coalition - DISNTR - The Dissenter https://disntr.com/ News, Polemics, Discernment, Theology, Apologetics Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:57:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/disntr.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/logo.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 You searched for The Gospel Coalition - DISNTR - The Dissenter https://disntr.com/ 32 32 189756376 Over a Decade Later, Evangelicalism Still Hasn’t Repented of Its Open Borders Activism https://disntr.com/2026/03/05/over-a-decade-later-evangelicalism-still-hasnt-repented-of-its-open-borders-activism/ Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:57:41 +0000 https://disntr.com/?p=250404 I watched President Trump’s State of the Union last night with a mix of relief and frustration. Relief, because finally someone at the podium unapologetically defended our nation’s right to secure its borders as a matter of moral duty and love for our own citizens. Frustration, because for years I’ve seen a very different sermon […]

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]]> 250404 The Buice and Themelios Scandals Compared https://disntr.com/2026/01/15/the-buice-and-themelios-scandals-compared/ Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:51:25 +0000 https://disntr.com/?p=250351 by John B. Carpenter Josh Buice’s elders at Pray’s Mill Baptist Church must have faced a mighty temptation. The popularity of their G3 conference and the prominence of their church seemed to rely, to some extent, on Pastor Buice, yet they had caught him in unfaithfulness and deception. Not the sexual kind of unfaithfulness. That […]

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]]> 250351 Survey Shows the Church Can’t Even Define Family Anymore https://disntr.com/2025/10/14/survey-shows-the-church-cant-even-define-family-anymore/ Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:35:42 +0000 https://disntr.com/?p=250233 Apparently, we now live in a world where less than half of “regular churchgoers” can coherently define the word family. Family Research Council’s (FRC) latest 2025 survey reveals that 68 % will say, “Marriage is between one man and one woman”—yet only 46 % think “family” means husband + wife + children (plus kin). That […]

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]]> 250233 The Church’s Open Border Crisis https://disntr.com/2025/08/15/the-churchs-open-border-crisis/ Fri, 15 Aug 2025 12:58:34 +0000 https://disntr.com/?p=250109 I’ve always said a nation without borders isn’t a nation, it’s a yard sale. Anyone can stroll in, grab what they want, and stroll back out. Hang all the flags you want, blast the national anthem on repeat, but if the gates are open and there’s no one at the checkpoint, it’s not your country […]

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]]> 250109 Fraud in TGC’s Themelios https://disntr.com/2025/08/14/fraud-in-tgcs-themelios/ Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:46:53 +0000 https://disntr.com/?p=250103 By John B. Carpenter It’s not salacious—no Jeffrey Epstein-like debauchery, no seven-figure embezzlement—but it’s still a scandal. The Gospel Coalition’s (TGC) flagship journal, Themelios, which TGC consistently promotes as “peer-reviewed,” breaks de facto contracts with writers and discriminates against Baptists, overriding the verdicts of their expert reviewers while claiming to produce a legitimate “peer-reviewed journal.” […]

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]]> 250103 How Marxism Became So Pervasive in the Evangelical Church https://disntr.com/2025/08/11/how-marxism-became-so-pervasive-in-the-evangelical-church/ Mon, 11 Aug 2025 10:11:35 +0000 https://disntr.com/?p=250096 Marxism didn’t storm the gates of Evangelicalism with tanks and bayonets—it rolled in quietly, like termites in the woodwork, and by the time anyone noticed, the beams were already hollow. Like the Scriptures warn of false ideologies, it “crept in unawares,” and hardly anyone noticed. The sanctuary wasn’t conquered by revolutionaries carrying hammers and sickles. […]

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]]> 250096 We Need to Address the Church’s Bondage to Hollywood https://disntr.com/2025/05/15/we-need-to-address-the-churchs-bondage-to-hollywood/ Thu, 15 May 2025 16:51:23 +0000 https://disntr.com/?p=249946 If our church members fall into the habit of frequenting the theatre, we shall soon have them going much further in the direction of vice, and they will lose all relish for the ways of God. If theatre-going became general among professing Christians, it would be the death of piety. Yet one finds the taste […]

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]]> 249946 The Gospel According to Karl Marx https://disntr.com/2025/05/07/the-gospel-according-to-karl-marx/ Wed, 07 May 2025 13:26:31 +0000 https://disntr.com/?p=249926 Karl Marx was not just some economist scribbling theories in obscurity who happened to have a stroke of luck in becoming a household name—he was the architect of a worldview that treats envy as virtue, revolution as redemption, and the State as god. What began in the shadowy corners of 19th-century philosophy has since evolved […]

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]]> 249926 David Platt Tells Bizarre, Demonstrably False Story About Visions of Jesus in Armor Protecting Him from Physical Assault https://disntr.com/2025/05/01/david-platt-tells-bizarre-demonstrably-false-story-about-visions-of-jesus-in-armor-protecting-him-from-physical-assault/ Thu, 01 May 2025 10:59:39 +0000 https://disntr.com/?p=249917 At The Gospel Coalition’s recent conference—an event already bursting with enough theological cotton candy to induce a diabetic coma—David Platt took the stage and, with trembling sincerity, unleashed a tale so drenched in mystical melodrama it could have been ghostwritten by Kat Kerr herself after the pink hair dye fried her brain and a sword-fight […]

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]]> 249917 The Gospel Coalition is Shocked the Democrat Monster They Coddled Has Teeth https://disntr.com/2025/04/16/the-gospel-coalition-is-shocked-the-democrat-monster-they-coddled-has-teeth/ Wed, 16 Apr 2025 17:31:07 +0000 https://disntr.com/?p=249882 Colorado, ever the progressive petri dish of experimental governance, has once again declared its disdain for Christian convictions—this time by officially categorizing biblical parenting as a form of abuse. House Bill 25-1312, which I wrote about earlier this month, cynically dubbed the “Kelly Loving Act,” slithers under the guise of compassion while weaponizing the state […]

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