The Roys Report Extra: What Should We Make of Crusading Bloggers?

The Roys Report

Julie Roys

Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Christianity

4.6 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

In this follow-up to The Roys Report on crusading bloggers, I continue my conversation with Scott Bryant, Ryan Mahoney, and Jessica Hockett—three former members of Harvest Bible Chapel who went public with damning information about the church and its former pastor, James MacDonald. We explore why publishing wrongdoing is sometimes not only permissible, but biblical, and what church members should do when they see sin in leadership. We also discuss the larger evangelical community and its failure to police itself.

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0:00.0	Some issues deserve more time than a one-hour radio show allows. Welcome to The Roy's Report Extra,
0:08.0	a podcast exploring issues discussed on the Roy's Report in more detail and without any commercial
0:13.7	breaks. Now, here's your host, Julie Roy's. Well, thank you for joining us for the Roy's Report
0:20.4	Extra. Today's show is a continuation of the
0:23.5	inaugural broadcast of the Roy's Report, which originally aired on June 22nd. Our topic was crusading
0:29.6	bloggers. Are they cleaning up the church by exposing sin and corruption, or are they tearing down
0:35.0	the church by airing our dirty laundry and spreading gossip?
0:38.9	My guests are Ryan Mahoney and Scott Bryant, authors of the Elephants Debt Blog,
0:44.4	a blog critical of Harvest Bible Chapel, and its former celebrity pastor, James McDonald.
0:49.5	So welcome, gentlemen. So glad you could join me again.
0:52.6	Yeah, good to be here again.
0:53.6	Good to see you, Joilly.
0:54.5	Yeah.
0:55.5	And also with me is Dr. Jessica Hockett, a former member of Harvest, who became a very popular
1:01.2	microblogger on Twitter.
1:03.0	So, Jessica, welcome.
1:04.5	Thanks for having me.
1:06.0	So this is one of those shows where we could probably fill four or five hours. We're going to fill
1:12.2	close to an hour now again. But in our first broadcast, which I encourage people, if you
1:17.9	didn't hear that, you might want to go back and listen to it, especially if you haven't been
1:21.2	following what's happened at Harvest Bible Chapel and the Elephant's Debt and Twitter and social
1:27.3	media.
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