Rick Pidcock
Writer at Freelance
Contributor at Baptist News Global
Weekly contributor, Baptist News Global | Author, "Worship Warfare" (Broadleaf Books, 2026) | Host, "Highest Power: Church + State" | Stay at home dad | He/him
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1 day ago |
baptistnews.com | Rick Pidcock
Given how often Dallas megachurch pastors have been in the news for abuse scandals or for run-of-the-mill sacralized misogyny over the past year, it’s only fitting that the Southern Baptist Convention would host its 2025 annual meeting in Dallas.
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1 week ago |
baptistnews.com | Rick Pidcock
“TODAY WAS WILD!!! A RIOT BROKE OUT IN SEATTLE!!” Those were the exuberant words of revivalist Ross Johnston celebrating on Instagram in all caps as chaos erupted during a worship protest Saturday in Seattle’s Cal Anderson Park.
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2 weeks ago |
baptistnews.com | Rick Pidcock
Three days before what we thought would be my wife, Ruth Ellen’s, final surgery for stage three breast cancer, my mind was racing as I was trying to finish moving out of our old house while confirming plans for where our five kids would be staying during her procedure. After almost two years of chemotherapy, radiation and surgeries, we felt like we finally were going to be able to take a breath.
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3 weeks ago |
baptistnews.com | Rick Pidcock
In a scene reminiscent of a Serena Waterford speech from Margaret Atwood’s dystopian depiction of totalitarian patriarchy in The Handmaid’s Tale, Dallas megachurch pastor Josh Howerton and his fellow elders allowed a woman to preach on Mother’s Day. If you’re a complementarian, that’s likely where the scandal begins and ends since women are supposedly required to remain silent in church and are not to usurp authority over a man.
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1 month ago |
baptistnews.com | Rick Pidcock
Almost every political conversation with white evangelicals today eventually comes down to their fear of saying anything positive about LGBTQ people. If you have empathy, they’ll warn it’s a slippery slope toward affirming LGBTQ people. If you suggest women can preach, they’ll accuse you of flirting with affirming LGBTQ people. If a public school teacher mentions something vague about everyone belonging, they’ll claim Christians are being persecuted over their beliefs about LGBTQ people.
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