CrossPolitic Gets The Call After Sponsored Vacation To Israel
On September 3, 2025, the CrossPolitic hosts Toby Sumpter, Gabe Rench, and David Shannon (“Chocolate Knox”) filmed an episode called “What Should Christians Make of Modern Israel?”. The impetus for this was that Sumpter and Rench had recently traveled to Israel on a trip sponsored by the Herzl Institute. This organization is named for Theodor […]
Woke Wars II: A Battle Of 2 Conferences
https://youtu.be/plnm4rZLbkU If the Antioch Declaration were a conference, it would be ReformCon 25. The list of speakers includes Jeff Durbin, Joe Boot, Doug Wilson, and James White as headliners, all signatories of the Antioch Declaration. After a No Quarter November of burning bridges, the theme for ReformCon is “Out of the ashes.” This conference stands […]
Toby Sumpter Argues Homophobia Is A Sin
One of the oft-overlooked consequences of celebrity Christianity When there is a Big Eva empire, untalented sycophancy arises. This often comes in the form of nepotism, but there are institutions that serve as a proving ground. For instance, 9 Marks was a breeding ground for woke pastors. Doug Wilson as the Evangelical Pope of Moscow, […]
CrossPolitic, Popsicle Stands, And Sychophancy
Earlier this week, I described the Moscow Mood as being sycophantic towards Doug Wilson, best exemplified by the softball interview that was given to him by CrossPolitic, a podcast hosted by Toby Sumpter, David Shannon (Chocolate Knox), and Gabe Rench (Waterboy), who are all Moscow, Idaho. For some odd reason, CrossPolitic thought it a bright […]
The Moscow Mood And Sychophantism
Celebrity Christianity has many pitfalls, and I talk about them at length in my book Winning Not Winsome: 10 Commandments of Spiritual Warfare. Commandment 3: Never Erect Popes namedrops Doug Wilson as a figure in Big Eva large enough to operate outside of the normal Big Eva paradigm. Although in the book I use John MacArthur […]
Toby Sumpter, Rory Wilson: The Weakness of the Moscow Mood
In late 2023, the Moscow Mood was all the rage, with Kevin DeYoung taking aim at Doug Wilson and a masculine approach to Christianity that Moscow represents whereas The Gospel Coalition represents the antithesis. To his credit, Wilson is a pioneer, leading him to build Moscow and a reputation that has garnered increasing credibility in […]