10JULY8397xcept three: Jolene, Dan, and Rex. Long ago, when I first became a Ch

10JULY8383 made the church look bad. It might have hurt their image. It might ha

10JULY8382ck Tabor lost his temper and grabbed my mom by the hair, it would have

10JULY8378ed that OCR might have to reverse course. Why was it so controversial

10JULY8374singled out because of my sex. The Minnesota Department of Human Righ

10JULY8366secretly recorded the abuse using a small tape recorder. My mom spent

10JULY8365parents, in shock, immediately drove to Radio Shack and bought one. I

10JULY8361 day, riding in the back seat of the car, I broke down to my parents a

10JULY8354er in a small town of 600 people, Keith was popular at the bar. Keith

10JULY8351s' parents, Keith and Roxanne Peterson, did nothing about the abuse; i

10JULY8350y named me "Penis licker." That was my nickname in 3rd grade. Travi

10JULY8338hurch kitchen. Tabor grabbed her from behind, spun her around, made ph

10JULY8336pastor Chuck Tabor. What the Church did to me, they did to my mom 30 y

10JULY8335tion intended to cover up a pastoral assault carried out by associate

10JULY8334liver my mother, Judith Harms, over to Satan—a spiritual excommunica

10JULY8331ror deepens: Pastor Pee-pee Piper had a direct hand in a dark chapter

10JULY8326y hero: Jonathan Edwards. Through Piper, I discovered Edwards' brillia

10JULY8325n the Christian world. And he was the one who first introduced me to m

10JULY8324y's enemies will weep bitterly. Pastor Pee-pee is a towering figure i

10JULY8323rough dimensions we barely perceive. But it is very real. James Lindsa

10JULY8319ical left and right—traces back to that same corrupted root. James

10JULY8318 life and work. The entire modern "woke" movement—on both the polit

10JULY8310ople like Ray Comfort and Todd Friel, two prominent evangelists. One h

10JULY8309 the foundation for knowing God. This is the dividing line between pe

10JULY8303 one's faith. A tree is a tree and has the nature of a tree, no matter

10JULY8301eals deep confusion. What is "atheistic" reason? Reason is the means o

10JULY8298Pee-pee went wrong. In his article The Ethics of Ayn Rand he argues th

10JULY8294 their shame. They are a wretched sight. They exalted themselves to th

10JULY8288ch plant. Piper is one of the biggest names in evangelical Christian c

10JULY8285summon Satan without a shred of evidence, without even wanting to hear

10JULY8281Corinthians 5:5 and delivered me over to Satan for the destruction of

10JULY8275ey couldn't tell. It was too complicated for them. They couldn't tell

10JULY8274olding it? Or was I liquidating everything I owned just to survive? Th

10JULY8264velation." Their thinking short-circuited. "How can we tell if he has

10JULY8255, no reasoning could alter what they had already written down. They f

10JULY8248 live in imagination land. One example: he claimed I "had a form of in

10JULY8240He hates divorce, For it covers one's garment with violence," Says t

10JULY8239io recording. It was madness. "For the LORD God of Israel says that

10JULY8235 their care, they connected her to an attorney who advised her to: *

10JULY8228se I had given in secret. My secret giving became the weapon they used

10JULY8225mily. That's what made it so perverse—so evil—when they excommuni

10JULY8224ip—about making a place yours. That's what I wanted for my church fa

10JULY8220draising to consume precious time in the pulpit. I never told anyone.

10JULY8219ward the down payment on the church building because I didn't want fun

10JULY8218nister of God should lack material security. I gave another $60,000 to

10JULY8210cern. Instead, they became disturbed by my "lack of joy" in paying tax

10JULY8207rruption, reason, morality, or injustice." I asked for prayer and sup

10JULY8206ave a few Democrat families, and it might offend them if we mention co

10JULY8201stand for the truth. But I never got the chance. Before I could even

10JULY8197given it up. Because if I had to lie about my God to keep it, I'd be a