After online resources that encouraged illegal aliens to deceive law enforcement were removed by the PCA’s Mission To North America, there was an apology. However, there was never accountability as the heads were still in charge of the organization. Mission To North America is still largely overseen by liberals, including at the top level by Irwyn Ince.
On Friday, February 21st, Ince was the special speaker at a “Black fellowship dinner” with the following description:
An evening with our special speaker, Rev. Dr. Irwyn Ince, for our Black worshippers at ResOak and their families. Connect with and encourage one another as we cap off our month long celebration of Black History Month with rich fellowship.
The event was derided for being racist due to the emphasis on being exclusively for Black people under the auspices of church ministry. This was not some Whites-only or Blacks-only club hosting a private event, but a church-sponsored event. Resurrection Oakland is a PCA church, though by their website they are not forthright about being one. What makes the event worse is that this church is not a Black church either, as it is helmed by two White pastors. This was not a Black church hosting an event for its congregants, but the very equivalent of what woke churches, like Saddleback, were doing in the aftermath of George Floyd. Perhaps if they were a Black church, the invitation would not have been so exclusive.
The article at Daily Wire was not actually written by Megan Basham, but Leif Le Mahieu, who is Presbyterian. Nevertheless, Basham did her part in broadcasting this story and, at the same time, attracting the ire of Anthony Bradley.
Anthony Bradley is a typical liberal activist who works with the Action Institute, which claims to promote a “free and virtuous society.” He is also a Research Professor of Interdisciplinary and Theological Studies at Kuyper College. As an aside, David Bahnsen is on the Board of Directors—the same guy who attacked Trump for pardoning J6ers. Bradley became angered by Basham and began lashing out at her with personal attacks.
He is arguing that her “racism” is why there is (or needs to be) a Black church. Bradley goes so far as to call Basham both unintelligent and insinuate that she is racist because she has daddy issues. Reminder: this was the exact same line of reasoning Doug Wilson repeatedly used to attack his detractors for noticing Jewish patterns. It is just as baseless and slanderous against Basham’s character, though comically ironic. There is a 70% chance a black child is born out of wedlock (whoredom) and a 42% chance they live with both parents compared to 70% of all children. This is before deep diving into abortion statistics and Black women. Maybe he should focus on the plank of daddy issues in the Black community instead of parroting Doug Wilson’s failed argument.
Bradley would go on to compare Megan Basham to Elizabeth Eckford, a Black student forced into a White school against the desire of the community in 1957. Then he dropped this response to one of his (former) followers:
You should unfollow, then. When I was called a “nigger” for 7 years by people like Megan, no one came to my defense. And, if you think I’m going remain silent and be a beta when someone like her attacks my brother and my friends, you’re out of your mind. You have no idea what is like to spend your career being attacked for loving black people by white conservative “Christians” like her. No idea. There is no way, on earth, I’m going to let Ince experience what I did. Not a chance. You don’t know me. Where were you from 2004-2011?
Again, he insinuates that Megan is a racist who is the same as those who dropped hard Rs against him. Bradley has a history of anti-White racism, in which he justified his parent’s hatred of White people back in January. He is basically making attacks against Ince an attack on him by proxy of his race. Anyone who is attacking Ince is automatically a racist.
As for the PCA, this demonstrates how anti-White and liberal they truly are at the top levels. The PCA has no qualms going after Zachary Garris while turning a blind eye to the over 5% of their churches that flaunt female deacons. Irwyn Ince can talk about the need for black people to have cultural and ethnic affinity as part of the Imago DEI. He can even say that Black people get “fatigue” from dealing with a “majority White Christian context.” Ince makes $300K working for the PCA and whines about racial trauma from being Black in White spaces. The PCA appears fine with kinism and racial collectivism, so long as it is from any group but White people. Whether the Action Institute will tolerate this remains to be seen, but they probably will.
There is no appeasing Anthony Bradley. He hates White people. And this mindset is all too commonplace in Black culture not just in America, but globally in places like South Africa and Zimbabwe. It was even on display in the Super Bowl halftime show. Whereas White evangelicals are the lone bulwark against moral insanity, Blacks are largely a vanguard for moral insanity insofar as they vote Democrat every election and support criminality and sexual degeneracy—especially abortion. As was seen in the 2024 election, anti-White hatred, with specific emphasis on Christianity, is the glue that binds the Democrat party.
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To understand the PCA you have to go back to their founding, when they broke away from the Southern Presbyterian Church. They wanted the new denomination to be as large and prestigious as possible, so they brought in the big steeple dispensationalists and Arminians, promising that the church’s Confession would not be enforced against them. In the PCA the Westminster Confession and the Book of Church Order have always been weapons, not standards. That is they are employed selectively against those that the establishment sees as trouble-makers for the status quo.
In addition to this is the matter of money. I have been told (though I don’t have the evidence myself) that the controlling money for PCA organizations and projects comes from outside the PCA from wealthy people in the PCUS. Thus the denominational bureaucrats are answering to their true sponsors outside the PCA.
Finally, even if they wanted to be confessional the PCA would not know how, as the pastors hold to diverse theologies: traditional Southern Presbyterianism (including revivalism), Radical Two-Kingdom Theology, Kuyperian three covenant theology, Westminster Philadelphia Van Tillianism, generic Evangelicalism, etc. All these people are under the illusion that they are Reformed. If they were to actually encounter anything historically Reformed they would run from it in horror.
Segregation of churches by ethnicity is something the Eastern Orthodox got right. Almost the only thing though.
“He can even say that Black people get ‘fatigue’ from dealing with a ‘majority White Christian context.'”
He means he gets fatigued when he’s not allowed to steal and smoke weed. And not allowed to grab his crotch in public.
@Tim Wilder My parents have been in the PCA since before they were married, not once has talk of ‘revival’ or revivalism’ being a thing. YOu say the PCA is from southern routes, but I see it as more northern, with a strong root in the rust belt.
I can’t speak to how they use their confessions today as I’ve not been associated with them for 20 some years. The talk about two kingdoms theology, i can’t tell you if that’s common, I do know that in the 90s the PCA church I was child in was heavily invested in the March for Life, and members were part of the Christian Coallition. I don’t know that I’d call those hands-off in approach to government.
The PCA churches I have attended are clearly reformed. As a non-calvinist, its hard not to notice how its sermons and lessons when visiting are filled with it. That having been said, I am reading a lot about how PCA churches many have books of order, but choose not to enforce or use them to do things with money in a faster way. I have concerns about this of course, but my parents do not feel it is their place to rock that boat. They already watched one PCA church die due to lack of new membership in a time of general decline in their area, that does something to some Christians I hink.
I am half convinced the majority of black “Christians” do not worship the same God that most Christians worship. Just over a month ago, a black man who apparently lived on church property cussed me out because I was about to walk in front of his house, and he made clear it was because I was white. And I bet Megan Basham has never used the “n-word” except while quoting others while reading older books to her children. So, as far as blacks I don’t know are concerned, I just let them go their way. I hope they’ll let me go mine too, but I kind of doubt it.
@veretax The Southern revivalistic faction in the PCA was strong enough to make possible a new breakaway denomination, the Vanguard Presbyterian Church. There are plenty like them still in the PCA.
As for how church order is used, we covered the PCA General Assemblies for a number of years in Contra Mundum and reported what was going on. No matter how much injustice and deception occurred in the end the loyalty to the denomination and the fellow elder network won out over the professed Reformed commitment. Radical Two-kingdom theology has to coexist with other theologies in the PCA, and that is one of my points. It does not have the dominance that it enjoys in the Dutch denominations coming out of the CRC. R2K is strongest among the intellectuals, that is, in the seminaries and among high-brow pastors.
Seminaries such as Westminster Philadelphia have throughout their whole existence taught against the view of reason that produced Reformed theology. The Kuyperians (again also teaching at Westminster) rejected the Reformed bicovenantal system. (For an explanation see my Theosophy, Van Til, and Bahnsen.) Finally, the Reformed view of the church can hardly be found anywhere today, if at all. For the argument for this see http://www.via-moderna.com/index_htm_files/BaptistCovTheo.pdf. Notice that these are historical arguments, not advocacy of what is the correct view.