Year: 2026

by Kevin S. Pirnie   Somewhere between a mailbox in Milwaukee and a bank in San Francisco, a woman nobody can name picked up a check. It was made out to the Church of Satan. It was a membership renewal. She could have stamped it and moved on. Instead, she turned it over and wrote…

–> By Kevin Pirnie Friends, I want to talk with you about something that has been heavy on my heart for a long time. Some of the kindest, hardest-working, most family-loving people I have ever known are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They keep their word. They show up with…

by Kevin S. Pirnie   They were whipped, jailed, and taxed for their faith. Here’s how Baptist persecution in colonial America forged the religious freedom every American enjoys today. Key Takeaways Colonial Baptists endured imprisonment, whippings, mandatory church taxes, and preaching bans under state-established churches in New England and Virginia. Baptist advocates Isaac Backus and…

Ex-Jehovah’s Witness Testimony • Christian Apologetics by Kevin S. Pirnie An ex-Jehovah’s Witness testimony unlike any other: two devoted Witnesses — one baptized at 16, the other a Kingdom Hall elder for a decade — called into a live Christian apologetics stream and, in front of thousands of viewers, renounced Watchtower doctrine and embraced the…

by Kevin S. Pirnie The Hidden King: Was Job Actually a Monarch? What if the man on the ash heap was not simply a suffering saint — but a reigning king whose story was secretly written to point to Jesus Christ? Ancient texts buried in plain sight reveal an identity scholars have discussed for centuries…

By Kevin Pirnie A scholarly examination of Calvin’s role in the persecution and execution of Anabaptists and those deemed heretical in Reformation-era Geneva Preface Few figures in Protestant history have attracted more controversy than John Calvin (1509–1564), the French theologian who became the dominant ecclesiastical force in Geneva from 1541 until his death. His intellectual…

    Is Baptism Part of the Gospel and Is Baptism Essential for Salvation? By Max Doner Editor’s Note The following is a written response by retired pastor Max Doner to a question that arose during a morning Bible study conducted over amateur radio. This study group, known as the West Coast Bible Study Net,…