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Continue reading →: Welcome to Sanitized Fundamentalism at Peachtree Road Baptist Church, A Close Examination of Pastor Jay Reed’s ‘Hard Preaching’What happens when fundamentalism learns to sound reasonable? This project began with a knock at my door and led to a sustained examination of Peachtree Road Baptist Church and its pastor, Jay Reed. What emerged was not the raw belligerence of old-school fundamentalism, but something more elusive: a version carefully…
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Continue reading →: PRBC Sermon Review: The Inverted Altar & Jay Reed’s Gospel of Affective Performance (Part 2 of 2)What begins as a softened, post-Thanksgiving sermon—padded with jokes, foreign phrases, and aesthetic filler—slowly reveals a far more serious project. Scripture is not denied; it is repurposed. Grace is acknowledged only long enough to be converted into obligation. Emotion is no longer a byproduct of faith but the metric by…
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Continue reading →: PRBC Sermon Review: The Inverted Altar & Steven Froelke’s Botany for Baptists (Part 1 of 2)What begins as a softened, post-Thanksgiving sermon—padded with jokes, foreign phrases, and aesthetic filler—slowly reveals a far more serious project. Scripture is not denied; it is repurposed. Grace is acknowledged only long enough to be converted into obligation. Emotion is no longer a byproduct of faith but the metric by…
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Continue reading →: PRBC Sermon Review: ‘Strange Children’ and Part 1 of Pastor Jay Reed’s ‘Third Rail Theology’Jay Reed’s sermon hinges on a phrase he never defines: “strange children.” Lifted from Psalm 144, the term originally refers to foreign aggressors—external enemies threatening a nation under siege. Reed quietly repurposes it to mean something else entirely: children who fail to conform. With no argument and little explanation, the…
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Fellow Berean
Acts 17:10–12 (KJV)
10 And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews.
11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
12 Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.
