R-7 PEOPLE-FILES
- Julie Roys - Mark Rushdoony - Fleming Rutledge -
==JULIE ROYS======
The Roys Report is a Christian media outlet, reporting the unvarnished truth about what’s happening in the Christian community so the church can be reformed and restored. Founded by investigative journalist Julie Roys, The Roys Report began as a personal blog where Julie published her commentaries and occasional investigative pieces while working as a national radio host on Moody Radio. However, in 2018, Julie published a series of articles on her website, exposing corruption and mission drift at the Moody Bible Institute. This led to the exit of three top officers at Moody. It also ended Julie’s relationship with Moody and changed the focus of Julie’s website—from a blog offering cultural commentary to an independent Christian media outlet exposing corruption, abuse, and what’s been termed the “evangelical industrial complex.”
Sept 8, 2022: Julie Roys: Roys Report: Opinion: Rick Warren’s Stunning 2014 Sermon to Mars Hill Foreshadowed Andy Wood Debacle
Aug 31, 2021: The Sojourner: THE PROBLEM WAS ALWAYS BIGGER THAN MARK
A now-excommunicated Trinity intern told journalist Julie Roys that Driscoll informed staff that he “intentionally structured Trinity to avoid the ‘problems’ he encountered at Mars Hill. Apparently, this means eliminating any meaningful oversight.”
Mar 18, 2015: Julie Roys: Christian Post: Christianity Today's Whitewashing of Margaret Sanger Does Not Value Women's Issues or Christian Values
A now-excommunicated Trinity intern told journalist Julie Roys that Driscoll informed staff that he “intentionally structured Trinity to avoid the ‘problems’ he encountered at Mars Hill. Apparently, this means eliminating any meaningful oversight.”
Mar 18, 2015: Julie Roys: Christian Post: Christianity Today's Whitewashing of Margaret Sanger Does Not Value Women's Issues or Christian Values
==mark rushdoony======
Mark R. Rushdoony graduated from Los Angeles Baptist College (now The Master’s College) with a B.A. in history in 1975 and was ordained to the ministry in 1995. He taught junior and senior high classes in history, Bible, civics and economics at a Christian school in Virginia for three years before joining the staff of Chalcedon in 1978. He was the Director of Chalcedon Christian School for 14 years while teaching full time. He also helped tutor all of his children through high school. In 1998, he became the President of Chalcedon and Ross House Books, and, more recently another publishing arm, Storehouse Press. Chalcedon and its subsidiaries publish many titles plus CDs, mp3s, and an extensive online archive at www.chalcedon.edu. He has written scores of articles for Chalcedon’s publications, both the Chalcedon Report and Faith for all of Life. He was a contributing author to The Great Christian Revolution (1991). He has spoken at numerous conferences and churches in the U.S. and abroad. Mark Rushdoony lives in Vallecito, California
Mark Rushdoony
Theology can be translated as “God words,” or our words about God, and it’s how we express what we believe about God. When we believe wrong things about God and what God’s doing, then it leads us to false conclusions as you believe God is this great cosmic loser. Then you look at evil in the world, and say, “Of course, that’s a good thing, because it means the resolution is coming.” So they have their optimistic outlook which is that it’ll all dissolve, and Jesus will resolve everything in a positive way miraculously, or in eternity. This is a flawed theology, and what we believe truly does matter. It matters in our perspective of what we’re doing today. Therefore, if we have bad theology, whether we realize it or not, it’s going to lead us to wrong behavior and an improper attitude towards what’s going on in the world around us.--Mark Rushdoony; Conspiracy Thinking 8.14.23
Mark Rushdoony
Something that marks our times is that people do not really want to discuss things in a civil manner. Many people are unable to discuss things and to find out why others differ from them, so the term “conspiracy” is often used as a pejorative, much like the terms “racist” or “fascist” will be used. “I’ll just label somebody, characterize what they’re saying, and I can leave it at that, because I’ve said all I need to say by saying it’s a conspiracy theory.” And yet, the simple meaning of conspiracy is when two or more individuals act in unison for an evil intent. Well, people are going to act in unison—they act in unison every day—and if you believe that men have evil in their nature, because they’re sinners, you have to concede that men act in unison for evil purposes and dishonest causes, and they use deception to do that. So the idea of conspiracies is a given because men have to act in concert with others. And so yes, conspiracies do exist. --Mark Rushdoony; Conspiracy Thinking 8.14.23
==fleming rutledge======
Fleming Rutledge has spent over twenty-two years in parish ministry, now has an international preaching and teaching vocation. Her most recent book, God Spoke to Abraham: Preaching from the Old Testament (Eerdmans), has received praise from many leading Old Testament scholars as well as preachers. Her previous books have met with wide acclaim across denominational lines and national borders. She is also author of The Battle for Middle-earth: Tolkien’s Divine Design in The Lord of the Rings (also Eerdmans), which has a fan base in Europe as well as the US. She received a grant from the Louisville Institute to write a book-length treatment of the contemporary meaning of the Crucifixion. Having divided this 800-page work into two volumes, she is presently on her way to submitting the first volume to Eerdmans for editing within the next six months.
Mrs. Rutledge served as interim rector of St. John’s, Salisbury, Connecticut (1996-7), and has twice been a resident Fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. During the 2008 fall term, she was resident at Wycliffe College in the University of Toronto School of Theology, where she taught preaching. She was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome (April 2010).
Ordained to the diaconate in 1975, Mrs. Rutledge was one of the first women to be ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church (January 1977). She matriculated at General Theological Seminary and received her Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1975.
For fourteen years Mrs. Rutledge was assistant and then Senior Associate at Grace Church in New York City, a parish celebrated at that time for its youthful congregation and evangelistic preaching. She was actively involved in the renewal there. Her previous position was at Christ’s Church, Rye, New York, where she was known for her creation and leadership of an extensive Christian program for high-school youth.
A native of Franklin, Virginia, Mrs. Rutledge graduated from Sweet Briar College in 1959, magna cum laude with highest honors in English. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She has received two honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees, from Virginia Theological Seminary and Wycliffe College in the University of Toronto. (Source: Generous Orthodoxy)
Mrs. Rutledge served as interim rector of St. John’s, Salisbury, Connecticut (1996-7), and has twice been a resident Fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton. During the 2008 fall term, she was resident at Wycliffe College in the University of Toronto School of Theology, where she taught preaching. She was a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome (April 2010).
Ordained to the diaconate in 1975, Mrs. Rutledge was one of the first women to be ordained to the priesthood of the Episcopal Church (January 1977). She matriculated at General Theological Seminary and received her Master of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1975.
For fourteen years Mrs. Rutledge was assistant and then Senior Associate at Grace Church in New York City, a parish celebrated at that time for its youthful congregation and evangelistic preaching. She was actively involved in the renewal there. Her previous position was at Christ’s Church, Rye, New York, where she was known for her creation and leadership of an extensive Christian program for high-school youth.
A native of Franklin, Virginia, Mrs. Rutledge graduated from Sweet Briar College in 1959, magna cum laude with highest honors in English. She was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She has received two honorary Doctor of Divinity degrees, from Virginia Theological Seminary and Wycliffe College in the University of Toronto. (Source: Generous Orthodoxy)
Fleming Rutledge
Yet at the most fundamental level—and this can’t be emphasized too strongly—the cross is in no way “religious.” The cross is by a very long way the most irreligious object ever to find its way into the heart of faith. J. Christiaan Beker refers to it as “the most nonreligious and horrendous feature of the Gospel. The crucifixion marks out the essential distinction between Christianity and “religion.” Religion as defined in these pages is either an organized system of belief or, alternatively, a loose collection of ideas and practices, projected out of humanity’s needs and wishes. The cross is “irreligious” because no human being individually or human beings collectively would have projected their hopes, wishes, longings, and needs onto a crucified man. --Fleming Rutledge (The Crucifixion)
Fleming Rutledge
"It is important to do battle with “whataboutism,” which occurs when someone laments police brutality and someone else says, “What about rioting and vandalism?” But these are not opposing arguments. It is important to be opposed to both violence and vandalism. All too often, people trying to advocate for justice are shouted down by “what about…” This can easily be critiqued in a sermon by, for example, telling an illustrative story about a Black woman, a community leader for Black Lives Matter, who broke down in tears as she viewed looting and vandalism in her neighborhood. But then, in order to give such an illustration, one has to be alert to find such stories so as to give her name and her city, to pin it down in reality."
--Fleming Rutledge; Generous Orthoxy; On Writing Political Sermons 5.5.21
--Fleming Rutledge; Generous Orthoxy; On Writing Political Sermons 5.5.21
