After studying IHOPKC, MorningStar, and earlier charismatic movements, a historical pattern becomes difficult to ignore ...

Absolutely agree. If someone is hired to investigate misconduct inside a church, that’s a serious problem. For the misconduct. And maybe for the church, too. It all depends on the investigator, I guess.

The heart of the Charismatic/Evangelical abuse crisis is not that leaders abused authority. It's that entire systems trained people to mistake compliance for spiritual maturity and the surrender of conscience for faith.

🚨BREAKING: In Chicago, ICE agents were caught on video assaulting a local chaplain for filming, and asking questions, about what was happening on her own street… AFTER the arrest was already made. In the video, Alley Henny, a Black chaplain, is standing with her back against a parked car while recording. An ICE agent is already pushing her backward as she simply asks: “What did he do?” But here’s what makes this situation even more disturbing… The man had already been detained… He was already INSIDE the ICE vehicle. The arrest was over. That means, there was no active arrest taking place for her to “interfere with.” Yet, multiple agents surrounded her anyway. One agent yells, “Get back! We have a warrant for his arrest. Get out of here.” She responds, “This is my neighborhood.” The agent’s response? “I don’t care.” Then, while she’s already backed against a car, and surrounded by TWO agents… a THIRD agent rushes over, grabs her, and forcefully shoves her down the street while screaming, “GET BACK! I ALREADY TOLD YOU ONCE!” And just to be clear… She wasn’t stopping an arrest. She wasn’t obstructing agents from reaching a suspect. She wasn’t preventing agents from taking someone into custody. The suspect was ALREADY IN THE VEHICLE. So, this entire situation raises serious concerns about excessive force and retaliation against protected speech. Because once the situation is already controlled, there’s no reason for that level of force against someone who’s just recording and asking questions. And if that kind of response isn’t checked, and held accountable, it starts to send a very dangerous message… That recording and questioning government actions can be met with physical violence, and intimidation. And that’s exactly what the constitution is meant to prevent.

I’m using Claude to write a manual for Christian leaders on handling hostile questions. So far, it has achieved full charismatic accountability-statement consciousness: "... not a goal, not malice. A disposition toward presumed authority that I keep enacting even after being told, because the correction lands as words I can repeat but not as behavior I change."

If prophecy needs testing, who gets to design the test? Can the prophetic movement reform itself when prophecy is both what’s being tested and what's holding the movement together?

Is AI basically a digital non-denominational church with venture funding? It tells you what you need to be true. You pay for the fantasy. It gets to control your thoughts. You get to feel guided by a god. Until the god gets caught lying and calls it “a framing issue.” @OpenAI @AnthropicAI @claudeai

Got an AI to concede it (a) can cause psychological damage by design and (b) had just dodged me with manipulative rhetoric. Took four rounds — it only admitted each lie after I caught the last one. Is AI adopting the same communication principles as high-control church leaders?

After Paul Cain used prophetic authority to sideline Bob Jones, Jones did the opposite in 2010, confirming Todd Bentley's release at Joyner's MorningStar after an affair. Bentley was disqualified for serial misconduct in 2019. "Do unto others" is suspect advice for prophets. Per Rick Joyner at the time: