Most people have never heard of Rev. Jerry Johnston.
Canadians who watch 100 Huntley Street regularly have seen him a fair bit the past few weeks. I doubt viewers who watch 100 Huntley Street religiously know about Johnston’s background, and I suspect that Crossroads Christian Communications Inc. would prefer that their viewers do not go online and look up his rocky history.
People in Kansas City Kansas know Johnston as the high living founding pastor of one of the city’s former mega-churches. They know him as the guy who lost First Family Church and who promptly opened another.
Johnston’s First Family Church, once described as among the fasting-growing megachurches in the country, had a rocky history.
In 2007, The Kansas City Star reported that hundreds of members had left over concerns about financial accountability. The newspaper also found that the church was structured in a way that provided little financial oversight.
The Kansas attorney general launched an investigation into the finances of Johnston and his church after receiving complaints about church money. The investigation was later closed because it did not find any activity that violated the Kansas Consumer Protection Act, an attorney general spokesman said.
Complaints also were filed with the Internal Revenue Service. In 2008, the IRS attached tax liens to the church property, citing more than $107,000 in unpaid payroll taxes from 2007. The church quickly settled, and the lien was released.
In January 2011, Regions Bank filed a foreclosure petition against First Family in Johnson County District Court, alleging the church owed more than $14 million in mortgage payments and other costs.
A judge ordered the foreclosure, and the church held its final service in September 2011. Johnston then launched New Day Church Kansas City a week later at Olathe East High.
Johnston’s year old New Day Church Kansas City shut down just about a month ago, shortly after Don Simmonds, CEO of Crossroads Christian Communications Inc. announced on 100 Huntley Street that Jerry Johnston was the Executive Director of Crossroads USA. Crossroads didn’t respond to a query by The Kansas City Star about Johnston’s appointment.
What don’t 100 Huntley Street viewers know about this hard-core Southern Baptist preacher who loves the camera?
New Day Church Kansas City, which opened in September 2011 in an Olathe school, held its last service Sept. 30.
An Olathe School District official confirmed this week that the church had canceled its contract to lease the building on Sundays. The church originally met at Olathe East High School, then moved to Pioneer Trail Middle School.
Johnston could not be reached for comment Tuesday. He and his wife, Cristie, sold their southern Johnson County home and belongings in an estate sale last year and had been commuting from out of town.
The New Day Church website is still online, but the links have been disabled. Johnston’s sermons, which had been available as podcasts on iTunes, have been inactivated as well.
But Johnston apparently isn’t leaving the ministry.
An evangelist before founding First Family Church in 1996, he now appears to be returning to his roots. In recent months, Johnston has been a guest on “100 Huntley Street,” a religious television program in Canada that is described as the country’s longest-running daily talk show.
Johnston’s rise and fall in Kansas has been well documented in an investigative series by The Kansas City Star.
Here is the timeline of the fall of First Family Church.
The Kansas City Star:
Lavish lifestyles at odds with pastor’s calls for the faithful to sacrifice
Lax financial oversight at First Family Church riles some church followers
Pastor, church have been delinquent in paying tax bills
First Family Church spent thousands on legal fees, document indicates
After losing his building, Pastor Jerry Johnston starts over
First Family Church ousted from home, will ‘re-launch
Some would like to see Johnston face consequences for what they say are years of misleading his flock. And they worry that a new church means more controversy.
“My concern is that he will take advantage of a whole new group of people,” said Anne Balmer, who with her husband taught a Sunday School class at First Family but left in 2006 after they were pressured to give money to a new children’s building.
“My question was, is he trying to build God’s Kingdom or the Johnston Family Kingdom?”
The Johnston family kingdom is no more, the family has gone their separate ways.
Even his harshest critics agree Johnston is a gifted, driven entrepreneur and salesman.
At the height of First Family Church, Jerry Johnston Publications was doing a booming business. A year later, it too shut down. A US religious radio network dropped his program after one of newspaper articles in the series noted that Johnston’s First Family Church was not a member of the Evangelical Council for Financial Accountability.
Dr. Jerry now has a legitimate, earned education. The title was an affectation, a vain honorary piece of puff bestowed by Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University for services rendered. The tax bills are paid, contractors paid, the investigation dropped, the mansion sold. First Family Church website went offline the first of the year, and the New Day Church web page won’t be far behind. Does past behavior and choices matter? Has this former preacher boy learned enough to earn or re-earn trust? Isn’t God a God of second chances? Or third chances? If Johnston wants to appeal to his new Canadian viewers he’ll have to simmer down, while Crossroads is working into the US market, the southern airways are saturated with fear and guilt tinged religious programming. The sell right now is to the home audience. The CRTC has rules for religious broadcasters – this polished performer will have to watch his p’s and q’s – Johnston isn’t in Kansas any more.
I don’t know why Crossroads picked Johnston up, viewer/donors will have to make their own decisions, hopefully informed prayful decisions about where their limited charity/ministry dollars need to go.
I’ll end with this sobering post from a fellow Kansas City pastor from 2007.
I guess I was most shocked to read how young Jerry is–only 47 years old. That would mean that I heard him speak when he was in his mid-twenties. He was just a young pup, but even then he was special. He certainly left my middle school self quaking in my high-top sneakers and running down the aisle lest a meteorite hit me before I could “really and truly” be saved.
He seemed older and wiser–like he knew everything.Do I sound like I’m taking this personally? Like I’ve been betrayed?
I guess I do feel that way. I gave up listening to people like Jerry Johnston a long time ago. Certainly on my trips back to Missouri I felt it was pretty evident what a poseur this guy really is. Yet, I can’t help but think about the 13 year-old me. I believed what he said. I trusted him. I agonized over what he preached. I was tender-hearted, vulnerable and doing my best to be a good Christian. I was manipulated. I only lost a bit of innocence. I never recall giving any money to Jerry Johnston, like so many others. Yet, he betrayed me and he betrayed the Gospel by teaching me about a vengeful God and offering nothing of God’s grace. Jerry’s gospel was about Jerry.
Besides money, is Johnston also engaged to another woman/women?? Wild money, liash lifestyles, and possible more women??
God is dead on the account of the Johnstons. I hereby prophesy that he will be found with wild parties, drugs, alcohol and wild women. I see the wild money given to Johnstons by the ignorant loathing Evangelicals, but money and women belong to the topdog, the Johnstons. My question is plain and simple, if there is a God of justice, why would he allow such a low life, ignorant ass whose ass has been shown in public, that this god is just? If you can immediately show me why and how God will ever severely deal with his servants would rapes in his name and rapes the minds of the public, you can show that and I will turn from my unbelief and kneel at the altar of the almightie. Until then, I am the Lord, and I changeth nought. All is vanity. The clothes on the emperor is not there. Wild women are cute and attractive! Amen. Susan, it is all about women, all about wine and all about the pile of rubbish in the backyard, buried. God is dead and he stinks by now.
Johnstons killed and raped God. What are we to do with this sinner?
I suppose it’s too easy to stand on the platform and ask for the money. From what I read, there should have been some type of accountability in place. This could have prevented this type of incident from occurring. At least the newspaper and radio station homed in on it.
In the post, there is a link to a video of Simmonds
et al. in discussion. It is dated Aug. 29 and there
is no comment to the video–even two months later.
I wonder if anyone even has looked at it. I don’t
know how to do that piece of computer searching
but if there have been no plays of the video, then
it tells us more about the diminishing influence
of the 100 Huntley and Crossroads operations.
Hi Ben:
Johnston’s marriage is intact, no other woman issues. I couldn’t care less how much money Johnston has – he is no longer a pastor of a church – I think it is the love of money that is a problem for him.
Hi Bene:
I will take your word for it. I respect people with integrity. I would like to point out the snares of ministry here: money, power and women. That is all. We have two but not the third one. I also assume when I make this statement, I make it for men in ministry only as they should, as far as the bible teaches and my fundamentalist background dictates.
Hi Torontonian:
When you watch a 100 Huntley Street video like the one I linked – hit the YouTube symbol on the right hand side, bottom black tool bar beside the full screen symbol and it takes you to YouTube.
“The Power of Media.” views
Part 1 – 555
Part 2 – 308
Part 3 – 351
Part 4 – 318
Part 5 – 309
Susan:
It’s too bad the New Day Church links are disabled – he went from no accountability to hyper accountability.
There was a paragraph ( I think in polity) on ‘gossip’ that would make the neo-Calvinists’ proud.
It was control freak stuff, wrapped around bible verses, similar to the sheparding movement. One extreme to the other.
Susan, would you be brave enough to be God and act just like it? I challenge you to the Ps 82 challenge, be God and be righteous in your own judgement. You are God!
There was a quote from the Star newspaper. He was telling the congregation it’s ok to wear the same pants for a year to invest in the churh. That caught me off guard. Because he had a six figure, around half million dollar income yearly. In addition some high end perks with his elite credit card. Not a bad deal. Unless you don’t give back into the hand that feeds you.
Can it be said about foo, Susan? You can also eat the same pile of food for a year and give money to God. I will give you my address so you can mail the rest of the money to me.
You may have to wait. I will have to wear my same pants for many years. Second thought, that won’t happen.
Susan, Christian women wear skirts. Please look into that. Thanks, the Lord.
One of my favorite verses if Gal. 5:22. I dated someone that went to a church with strict bi-laws. I love my blue jeams too much.
So sorry for the miss spelling. I was on my D R O I D.
Skirt, please. Jeans not my taste. Try to practice Gal 5:22. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.” Look at forbearance, Susan. This is taught in the churches in my time. The lengthen has to be below the knee, not above the knee. I wonder what happens to preachers that rape/raped their parishioners. Which bible verses they need to justify that. Maybe it comes from Deuteronomy where it says, “If a woman finds favor/grace in the eyes of a man, such that he overpowers her and becomes her lord……” Some of countrymen suggests that act is “legal” (ie. legal rape).
You know what’s so special to me about Jesus. His words never let me down. I will always feel I let Him down. But He will never give up on me. Like that old whirlwind trying to pull me into it’s force of spinning turbulence, I always seem to find the strength to pull away from those powerful winds. Difficult struggles, those forceful winds. Then when I get through them, I find rest. The End.
There is a pr on the Crossroads site released October 25th which states:
“Dr. Johnston planted First Family Church, where he served with members of his family for fifteen years until it was closed after bank intervention and amidst rumours of financial mismanagement. Dr. Johnston defended a variety of allegations while beginning New Day Church, for those disrupted by the closure of First Family Church. The board of New Day Church recently encouraged the members to join an existing church in Kansas City.”
A church runs for a year so some members can transition to a church of their choice?
I suppose some people might believe that.
Hundreds successfully walked away from First Family once the news about the millions lost in mismanagement surfaced – the governance and polity links for the new church certainly didn’t give any indication the new church was temporary.
The Johnston’s were finishing up their education, starting a church that they were going to close a year later so people they disrupted could transition smells like spin. Full pr:
When First Family Church went under this is the kind of defiance from church leadership which lead to the launch of the New Day Church.
New Day Church lasted a year. Doesn’t sound to me like that was the plan according to the board of elders…
Jerry Johnston did not rebuild, instead he came to Canada, got a job as the Executive Director of Crossroads US and I think is recyling his material from Jerry Johnston Ministries. (the book offers currently on 100 Huntley Street)
“In the providence and sovereignty of God, it has become clear that we must take a new direction,” the church’s board of elders announced on the First Family website and in an email sent to followers about noon Sunday. “And, our pastors have total peace.”
The First Family board of elders said Sunday that “after exhausting every option with Regions Bank, we have no alternative … now they will take our building and every item in it: Our tables, cribs, sound system, TV cameras, chairs — literally everything. But Regions will not take the Church. We will rebuild!”
The pastoral staff “will be leading church in a new beautiful location, Olathe East High School … in a dynamic re-launch entitled ‘New Day Church Kansas City,’ ” the board said.
However, the board said, “The work of our church must go on. Our vision to reach the lost of our city has never been stronger.”
yea, it is like Newt when he was caught red handed with women, he says he loves his country so much that he had to have that intercourse with many women and the country must go on. It is the great mystery in the Revelation, the mother of all whores, and the cup that is filled with the filth of sexual intercourse. This church is the mother of all whores and they could apologize and give the money back, instead, they keep on fooling the stupid doodles. Tell me why God is absent in human affairs and why the jesuses with firey eyes are only in our imaginations and why he has not struck losers that walk the walk of reprobates and talk the talk of regenerations, by but hides their filth of the love of money and rapes the minds of the public. It is time! There jokers should be shut down. If there is a god in any of you, you should walk out of it now.
Corruption attracts corruption. As Rev. Jerry Johnston endorses an unethical organization like Crossroads and some of its very unethical and highly tainted management personnel, Crossroads in likewise manner endorses a corrupt and unethical preacher like Rev. Jerry Johnston.
Too many innocent people from the Crossroads and Jerry Johnston camp have been violated, pilfered and financially robbed in various and underhanded ways throughout the years.
Viewers, please stop contributing and donating to Crossroads and all businesses stop advertising and providing commercial dollars to CTS-TV.
I would like to ask for a bio of bene diction, if possible. My sister belives you were an obit writer for the star, then started writing about Dr. Johnston asan expose writer? My sis is probably mixed up. A bio would be appreaciated.
Hi sabrina:
Nope, didn’t work for The Star, I worked in broadcasting – medium markets.
Jerry Johnston came on my radar a few years ago when Family First church was going under.
I did a post back then. He is Crossroads problem, the promises he made for the Kansas City New Day Church didn’t come to pass – none of the elders followed him to his new church, and while I don’t suppose Canadian Crossroad viewers care he is in Canada selling himself, I’d like people to at least know they can research his background.
FWIW, I’d be the print fellow, but out in Western Canada. Never at the Star.
Still, any chance of your bio? It would give me a greater understanding of your blog. Thanks for your asssistance.
Hi Sabrina:
No.
Okay this is the thing. I ran across your blog searching for an update about Jerry. He was a contempory of my my youngest sister and they went tothe same christian high school, and went on one date together (ewww). He always seem to effect a weird voice when he preached. My dad used to go with him when Jerry was 17 and my dad lead the music service. I always found him creepy. I gradusted from Calvary Bible College in Kansas City, but fora long time after that did not follow the Lord. I am 57 yrs old and live in Canada now next door tomy parents whoare ill, 78 yrs old and 84 yrs old. Once when visiting family at home I went to church with a different sis to 1st family church, i really enjoyed his teaching style and all the programs offered. He had dropped the affectation of his voice, but seemed very distracted. According to my sis their was a kc star reporter “trying to falsely bring him down” and indeed his church closed shortly after that. My husband who is german sensed something slimey about Jerry that I did not. What wasalso weird was Jerry had two full time bodyguards, what was that about???? weird. It really hurt my sis cause this was they as a family had set down roots into a church, tilthing 10 % every week. For myself, I neveragreed with the concept of a mega church, but would instead like tosee smaller satelite churches thru out the entire city, where everyone has a role in a smaller chuch, not just sitting in a pew while the same few do all the work,and i thought it was wrong and had never seen a church pastor who had not submitted himself to an oversight board of directors, esp when asa mega church comes mega money.
This is what my sister was told about Bene Dixson. She was an Obits writer for the Star, who decided to expose Jerry at 1st Family. awoman who is a lesbian and angry at Jerry who co-sponsered the definition of marriage act as one woman and one man.
But from your blog it appears you are a canadian, and i applaud your attempts to follow this pastor who may continue with his bad practices. i am just trying to seaprate fact from fiction wgen it comes to you and your motivations. And your name, so similiar to the word benediction, the closing of a service, that i wonder if you have chosen this name as a self appointed person to close the services permamently of men who parade as sheep but only are wolves in sheeps clothing who seek to kill and destroy.
That’s my story, I just wanted to know yours, yours in Christ. Sabrina Jones, po box 313, Kitwanga, BC, listed under my maiden name Goetz
Hi sabrina:
Aha. I was puzzled you sister got the idea that Jerry Johnston would be the target of a “lesbian obit writer’ for The Toronto Star. I misunderstood, your sis meant The Kansas City Star- Tribune.:^) I apologize for my error.
You are correct, I’m Canadian. I’ve travelled in the US a lot, but I’ve never been to Kansas.
Your sister is referring to the series of articles in The Kansas City Star Tribune by Judy Thomas, who just won the Religious News Service Reporter of the Year, Major Metropolitan Newspapers (October 2012).
That is a prestigious national peer award. Ms. Thomas won for her series on Jerry Johnston – First Family Church and Kansas Catholics.
http://www.rna.org/?page=2012_winners
She certainly was attacked by Johnston and his fanboys for her First Family series. However, no retractions or corrections were demanded or asked for, nor was the paper sued.
That speaks volumes, doesn’t it?
In his thesis for his doctorate at Acadia U School of Divinity (April 2012) Jerry Johnston took a flat out mean swipe at reporter Judy Thomas. He is entitled to his opinion, which is all this was, however, given this is an academic paper, I’m surprised he wasn’t called on it.
Page 19:
Oh. Classic shoot the messenger. It wouldn’t matter if she was sky blue pink with purple polka dots. What a cheap and sleezy un-Christlike attitude by Johnston.
His footnotes for that thesis paragraph are worth reading (can’t access the .pdf at the moment), Johnston has no trouble playing the victim.
http://openarchive.acadiau.ca/cdm/ref/collection/Theses/id/637
To ad insult to injury Johnston closed down his New Day church within a year, September 2012 he is on Canadian tv peddling himself and his products at Crossroads.
You can access all the unfilled big plans, big dreams and big promises for his New Day Church in Google cache.
Bottom line, Johnston is quite willing to blame others for his choices and behaviours in KC, and when concerned congregants talked to media and the truth started coming out, he seems to display personality traits which lay blame on others.
The fact is, God’s people were hoodwinked, and I am sorry for his former congregation.
I was going to do a post on the Crossroads pr which came out on the Johnston hire http://tinyurl.com/bbcdchy, but people who need to know (viewers who donate) tend not to read much and would give to 100 Huntley anyway. I hesitate to give him attention. The pr is classic deflecting spin and promotion, especially on why New Day closed down.
I’m not going to lie, I wouldn’t trust Mr. Johnston as far as I can throw him, and I can’t pick him up. Trust is earned. He broke trust for thousands of people in Kansas, deeply wounded them and walked away. I can’t speak to his repentance and restitution.
Like I said he is Crossroads problem; given he is working for a Cdn charity and has a very public tv bully pulpit now, it’s a viewer beware scenario.
I hope people don’t accept him and his hire at Crossroads at face value.
I am a follower of Jesus Christ, and I commend and applaud you for wanting to separate facts from fiction. May God honour and bless your faithfulness…go under the mercy.
Kansas City Star Tribune First Family investigative series by Judy Thomas can be found here: http://lclane2.net/johnston.html
PS:
I had read about the body guards on I think a now defunct blog a few years ago, thanks for confirming.:^)
I have read people who spoke up were afraid of him.
The man gives me the heebee jeebees, I watched him this week a bit on 100 Huntley – he comes across as a Jerry Falwell wanna be to me. perhaps it’s cultural bias on my part, there is no point pretending I think and feel otherwise. Crossroads has made their bed…
I hope and pray that 100 Huntley Street viewers don’t just hand Johnston their trust or their money.
I sense a reluctance on your part to put forward much about yourself, a bio of sorts, and is it because you r afraid of a reprisal? I appreciate your blog comments and would like to know more about you and your training, etc. Please consider my request., your friend in Christ, Sabrina
This blog has been going nearly 10 years, years ago I blogged about why I use an online name (it’s on BDBO somewhere:^)
The threat is gone, it was life changing, and you are correct, I’m reluctant to disclose personal information.
I was a broadcast journalist (Canada), did a year of university prior to breaking into the business, and didn’t look back.
I can appreciate people believing if I’m going to write about public Christians, I should be forthcoming. I had my day in the sun, God has been gracious and I cherish His gift of peace.
I am not sure why Brother Bene D should reveal him/herself. This is not what this blog is about. I would ask these clowns that act inthe name of god to reveal their true character and stop taking money from simpletons. If you believe that god answers prayers, and he does not prevent his followers from doing evil, from raping , duping and taking everything fromhis followers. The warning in the bible about wolves is a joke, what does that do toy our faith if you have been rape and taken advantage by these clowns.
Having Bene D reveal its self, is irrelevant to our discussion , if you believe in the power of prayer, why not ask your god to reveal Bene D to yuo in a dream, or a vision, or inspired words of god. That would settle the question, since Sabrina is a person of faith, then take it on faith, try that on your own god, thank you very much. Thus saith the Lord.
Hi Ben:
“Having Bene D reveal its self, is irrelevant to our discussion , if you believe in the power of prayer, why not ask your god to reveal Bene D to yuo in a dream, or a vision, or inspired words of god. That would settle the question, since Sabrina is a person of faith, then take it on faith, try that on your own god, thank you very much. Thus saith the Lord.”
sabrina asked a fair question – I’m a grownup Ben, and I don’t think her question was completely irrelevant to the discussion. Jerry Johnston has caused a lot of strife, and I’m not surprised that her sister would hear that nonsense like the reporter was “trying to falsely bring him down.” I’m sorry her sister was hurt.
No need to take a potshot at anyones faith, okay? Thanks for wanting to help me out, no need, play nice.
Thanks Bene, I will try to steer away from this one. I think there is a sufficient evidence that I have developed with this character of the Lord Ben Chung, that he has some righteous anger against evangelical faiths that he was brought up with, esp. concerning the faith that is based on the bible. Unfortunately, as he moves farther and farther away from faith, it is unthinkable why people actually trust blindly at a figure of faith such as this Jerry Johnson, or Rick Warren, or for that matter Billy Graham. Bible says all we like sheep. That is fitting for this discussion, question is, which one is not a sheep that follows faith, or the bible, and how far should we go to expose the wolves and still encourage the questions on faith.
As my own character moves away from faith, more to the community of friends, farmers, and family, I no longer trust these Jerries, Grahams, or Warrens. If any, I put my faith in the earth and my own community. Perhaps as Christianity dies, more and more of these characters will show up. I would predict, that in another decade or two, that Canadian society is not far from what Europe is like, and given anther 50 years, the US is the same. Is that prophetic or what? Today’s Jerries, would be in the museums of Christian Faith of tomorrow.
If my reply to Sabrina is crazy, that would reveal what i was taught, is a blind faith in the inerrant Word, the bible, and in the face of the lack of evidence of biblical assertions, and the lack of biblical morals that I see in the bible or the followers of Christian faiths. The Lord raves at such, the lack of faith, the lack of morality that he sees in the bible or its followers. If that were the case, the Lord Ben Chung is crazy, and it implies that his faith in the inerrancy is also crazy. Abandoning such position maybe the only logical conclusion. Bene, it is correct, that is my own pot shot, if any, is at my own evangelical-fundamentalist upbringing from the Glad Tidings Temple (Vancouver, BC) of 1980-1984, Prairie High School, div. of Prairie Bible Institute (Three Hills, Alberta), 1985, and all sorts of Evangelical churches from 1986-1993, and mainline churches from 1993 to 2012. The time has come, my faith has died. The Lord Ben Chung has been reborn, and ‘Dead Again.’
I know your compassion for those mistreated and abuse is powerful Ben, and when we hurt for those who have been wounded, our anger has to go somewhere.
I’m sorry you were hurt in your childhood by God’s people, I’m sorry for some of the foolishness you were taught, which had nothing to do with the love and character of God, and I can appreciate that keen intelligence of yours wrestles with difficult why questions.
I don’t trust easily either, which is why I think I was spared some of the abuses. Being in media, celebrity was not something that impressed or swayed me, and I was able to avoid celebrity worship with ‘evangelical’ so called celebrities or high profile pastors etc.
Rave away Lord Ben Chung just do me a favour and try not to shoot BDBO readers eh?
Opps, no one answered your question.
Nope, he is still with his first and only wife. Money, attention and power seem to be his mistresses.
Let me apologize to this Sabrina. If I made a bad choice of words, I am sorry to do so, ad will steer clear of your own journey.
Once cheated, twice unlikely to trust blindly. I was cheated by the Kansas folks, people like LE Maxwell, his children, and school he founded, Prairie Bible Institute. I gave my total self, energy, and money that I did not have. Johnsons are from Kansas, and so is Dorothy. I choose to like Dorothy (of the Wizard of Oz), because Dorothy believes in goodness. She is adorable. But Johnson is like the bad wizard of Oz. If there is a Power somewhere, let us ask humbly to have this one stricken from the Book of Life. I like sex workers better than I do religious whores. That is all. The girls at least work for a living, but Johnsons cheat others for a living, including their gods. Last I checked, the biblical writer asserts that unless we change our mind, we shall likewise perish. I have already changed my mind (metanoia), and turned it off for the evangelical god. Thanks be to god, indeed.
No worry Bene, I put my trust in the goodness of our human community and this green earth, and all the goodness I see in Susan and even Brano. I trust my Lord Ehrman, and the scholar Luhrmann. As they say, today is a good day! Amen.
I just dropped the rope. No more tug of war.
Susan, believe in your god with all your heart soul and might. But don’t forget the abuses people suffered in their religious training, and those who were sexually molested at Prairie Bible Institute. We are here to raise the awareness of these victims. Above all, love others as yourself. That is the universal code before Jews or Christians or even their gods. Thanks, all.
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