UCG: New Generation Incoming! Quick, Someone Tell Them We’ve Been Busily...
Thirty Years of “Almost There”: UCG’s Epic Journey to Finally Doing the WorkAh, yes, the United Church of God Council of Elders Report. Always a treasure trove of understated comedy. John Elliott, in a...
View ArticleRhinestones, Books, and Hospitals vs. Plaques, Scandals, and Endless Splits
Armstrongism had a real knack for denigrating anyone outside their exclusive little circle—especially if they were an entertainer, and heaven forbid, a professed Christian entertainer. Nothing set...
View ArticleArmstrongism: A Failed Work of Men
Armstrongism: A Failed Work of Men Herbert and Garner Ted Armstrong are long dead, and the Worldwide Church of God which they built no longer exists! There isn’t anything left of the Ambassador...
View ArticleCrackpot Prophet's 15 Year Long Bitterness Causes Him To Lash Out Once Again...
In December 2011 Bob Thiel submitted wording changes to Living Church of God’s Statement of Official Beliefs. Charlotte evangelists and ministers allegedly nodded along like they always did whenever...
View ArticlePlease Advise: How a Grown Man Checked His Brain at the Door and Outsourced...
A former Worldwide Church of God member supposedly wrote to Bob Thiel with a problem that should have been solved by adulthood: he could not decide which splinter group to join. The churches disagreed...
View ArticlePCG: They Didn’t Win in Court. They Bought Their Way Out—Then Edited Herbert...
The Philadelphia Church of God has spent more than two decades crowing that it “won” the lawsuit the Worldwide Church of God filed after PCG printed Herbert W. Armstrong’s writings without permission....
View ArticleLCG Admits They Have Little to No Growth While Bob Thiel and Wade Cox Claim...
Forty years after Herbert Armstrong's death, despite hundreds of splinter groups all proclaiming themselves as the one true Philadelphia church, not a single one is able to attract and maintain...
View ArticleBob Thiel, Despite The Law Being Weak and Useless, Still Claims Christians...
Bob Thiel is back with his repeat article where he gets all prissy about Banned claiming tithing is no longer commanded. The fact still remains, tithing is not a New Covenant command. Bob Thiel and the...
View ArticleIs the COG Pulpit a Place for Ministers to Air Their Pet Theories,...
A review of Nathan Albright's paper on: The Importance of Teaching What the Bible Says from the Pulpit and Avoiding Personal Speculation as an Abuse of the Power of the PulpitThe white paper argues...
View ArticleDave Pack: A Masterclass in Unsealing the Book of Daniel
David C. Pack of The Restored Church of God has been claiming to unseal the book of Daniel since 2015. This embarrassing supercut illustrates the absurdity of the prophetic doctrines of The Restored...
View ArticleCG7-D: Still Alive Enough to Annoy the One True Philadelphia Franchise
COGwriter ExclusiveAnd to the angel of the church in Sardis write—which, after careful study of the mail routes of Roman Asia and my own departure from Charlotte, I have determined is Denver.These...
View ArticleDivision Trumps Unity: Nine Different COG's Will Be Keeping The Feast In...
Like a mighty armyMoves the Church of God:Brothers, we are treadingWhere the saints have trod;We are not divided,All one Body we—One in hope and doctrine,One in charity.The Armstrongist version of the...
View ArticleWhy Church Eras Are Not A New Covenant Doctrine
Bob Thiel is back once again, attempting to smear COG7 and the work they do as the dead Sardis era. That's pretty rich considering COG7 is growing in members while every single "true remnant"...
View ArticlePeople Don’t Trust Organized Religion Anymore, Reports Church Currently on...
In light of a recent poll revealing that only 36 percent of Americans have “a great deal or quite a lot of confidence” in organized religion, the Church of God, a Worldwide Association, has decided the...
View ArticleJesus Christ Personally Appointed Me. You Dare Not Question My Office!
You Have Zero Say Over MeJesus Christ Personally Appointed MeA Field Guide to the Oldest Trick in the Hierarchical Flowchart of ArmstrongismEvery generation of Armstrongism produces a man who...
View ArticleGod Is Going To Use One Man Exclusively To Warn The COG's When It Is Time To...
The Secret Has Been Revealed. Surprise: It Is Bob.Genuflect at his feet now so that you may be saved!Stand in awe and gaze upon his magnificence!Never in the long, splintered, spreadsheet-of-splits...
View ArticleWhen A Church of God Leader Discovers Restraint—Right After Decades of the...
The Living Church of God has never met a late-summer earthquake, fire, flood, or terrorist anniversary it couldn't convert into proof that Satan is personally offended by the Feast of Trumpets and the...
View ArticleArmstrongism's Longest Running Ministry To Its Members: You Are Too Stupid To...
Living Church of God is once again telling grown adults what to wear to church and what kind of swimsuit will not scandalize the Millennium. Coats, collared shirts, ties, and nice slacks for men. For...
View ArticleSaxony-Anhalt Votes, America Prepares for Servitude: The COG WWIII Prophecy...
Congratulations, America. A political party just won a state election in Saxony-Anhalt, a place most Americans could not find on a map if you handed them the map, a highlighter, and a three-hour head...
View ArticleArmstrongism's Favorite Control Issue Just Got Smaller: Crackpot Bob and the...
Crackpot Bob, self-appointed prophet of the Continuing Church of Prophetic Recycling, and pretend professional commenter on everything from European beasts to wearables as 666-adjacent, has decided...
View ArticleThe Ministry Vacated So Christ Had To Ordain Me
There is a special kind of confidence that only exists in the Armstrongist remnant universe. It is the confidence that allows a man in Keosauqua, Iowa, to look at the wreckage of the old Worldwide...
View ArticleThankful for the Truth Nobody Else Is Allowed to Understand
Armstrongism has always sold itself as the last unlocked room in the house of Christianity. Everyone else had the furniture. Only Herbert W. Armstrong, we were told, had the key. "The Truth" was not...
View ArticleHow curiosity saved me from a doomsday cult | Gabrielle Steele | TEDxAirlie
What if the opposite of certainty isn’t doubt, but curiosity? Gabrielle Steele reflects on her 21 years inside an apocalyptic cult and how unquestioned beliefs can quietly shape identity, morality,...
View ArticleMalachi 3:10, Iowa Edition: Bring the Whole Tithe Into the Barn: The...
For sixteen years, Samuel W. Kitchen would not touch the tithe. Not a dime. Not a widow's mite. Not even a spiritually significant Amazon gift card. He labored with his own fingers, as Isaiah...
View ArticleSeptember 11 and the Churches of God
It is hard to believe that 25 years have passed since the World Trade Center was attacked by Islamic extremist vermin. Today, in 2026, an entire generation knows very little about that horrendous day....
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