For some time, I have been collecting resources related to the theological problems of Calvinism as well as the experiences of Christians when leaving such churches. Finally this weekend I started assembling them under Leaving Calvinism. They are all back-dated to when I started collecting them.
This video, however, is going up new at the top of my blog. Why? Because it encapsulates in just a few minutes so much of what I’ve been observing about the current Reformed and Calvinistic attitude toward women. It provides an excellent launching pad for the content in that category.
Here’s the brief video and then my comments continue below it.
Someone might wonder why I’ve started sharing more about these topics. It’s because I can see what is coming. We will shortly be leaving the destructive mess of the Fourth Turning. You can already see glimpses of the First Turning starting to develop if you are paying attention. One of the hallmarks of the First Turning is maximum difference between men and women. So simply from a cultural standpoint, this is happening.
But I’ve also pointed out there is a segment of the church in which the men have a seething contempt for feminists that is spilling over into how they view, speak of, and interact with their sisters in Christ. I wrote of this in The Angry Christian Men Who Disdain Women. I’m confident enough that it will be an issue that I started putting posts this weekend in Reformed Patriarchy.
The contempt John MacArthur showed toward Alana was palpable. He called her a wistful girl. She’s a married homeschooling mother who must be in her mid-thirties. In my post Alana Lagares and Leighton Flowers on John MacArthur Rebuke, Alana and Leighton Flowers have an interesting discussion about MacArthur’s attack on Alana. I agree whole-heartedly with the point Leighton makes at the beginning about what would have happened if the situation had been set up a bit differently in two ways.
Lastly, I find the facial expressions, body language, and vocal inflections during the part about Alana disgusting. Truly disgusting for two men with public ministries to speak about a sister in Christ in such a way. They are setting the example for other Reformed and Calvinist men to treat women with contempt.
It is the perfect encapsulation of the Reformed and Calvinist movements in America today.
Edited to add on May 13, 2025:
Just realized this is Josh Buice interviewing MacArthur.
Ironic.
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Edited to add on September 8, 2025:
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The more I think about Josh Buice’s involvement in this interview, the more I realize the absurd irony of it and what it reveals.
Alana had the integrity to make multiple public videos, detailing why she changed her views on Calvinism. She used her own full name and face.
Josh Buice scampered around Twitter/X behind anonymous accounts, sowing discord and slamming fellow believers.
And yet we are lectured over and over again by the men in these very circles that all the church’s problems would go away if the women would just sit down and shut up.
Women like Alana are not the problem facing the church at large. Women like Alana are the problem of the reformed patriarchy, but not for the reasons those men think.