Disgraced pastor releases new book — and Allie Beth Stuckey has serious questions



In September 2024, prominent Reformed preacher Steven J. Lawson was removed from Trinity Bible Church of Dallas and from roles within several different ministries after it was revealed that he had an inappropriate extramarital relationship with a woman in her 20s.

While the exact nature of the relationship was never fully explicated, the scandal was enough to “rock the Reformed world,” says BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey, who covered the incident when it first happened.

For a while, Lawson stayed out of the public eye, but he’s recently re-entered with a new book. “Mercy in the Wilderness: How I Fell & What I Found,” which dropped quietly in September, recounts the hidden sin and adulterous relationship that collapsed his ministry in 2024 and frames the aftermath as a story of repentance and God’s mercy rather than a detailed account of what happened.

Several prominent pastors and elders have criticized the book, arguing that Lawson has no business profiting from a book made possible by the sin that disqualified him from pastorship.

“I agree with some of these critics. It's just too soon,” says Allie, noting that she wants Lawson “to be focused on the things of the Lord, the things of the local church, and the things of [his] marriage.”

But it’s also some of the contents in the book that bother her.

While Allie gives Lawson credit for seeming “genuinely repentant” for the sinful relationship, she criticizes the part of the book where he apologizes for “[emphasizing] God's holiness much more than his mercy” in his past sermons.

In the book, Lawson judges himself for being a “prophet of doom” instead of “a pastor of grace,” but Allie never thought he did anything but preach “straightforward” about biblical truth.

“There is something about this that strikes me as odd. Like, who are you speaking to? Like, who are you trying to garner the sympathies of?” she asks.

Speculating that Lawson is perhaps triggered by the idea of harsh preaching because he “didn't like that harshness” when it was his own sin being exposed, Allie says, “I don't know if the audit on his past sermons is coming from a genuine place or if it's even correct.”

She also believes he tempered his admission of pride by “listing his credentials.”

“To me it comes across like, ‘Look, I was also producing so much; I was doing so much and giving so much to the world,”’ says Allie, calling Lawson’s list of accomplishments “a little gratuitous.”

She also disliked Lawson comparing his downfall to that of King David’s with Bathsheba.

“That seems to me like something that you allow someone else to do and maybe not something that you do yourself because it does seem to elevate you to this special chosen appointed position like David that might not actually be applicable to you,” she says.

But Allie’s biggest issue with Lawson’s book is that he “doesn’t address those that he has hurt.”

“Now, he does talk about his wife, and he does admit the problems that he had in their marriage and take responsibility there, but other than that, he doesn't really have a specific address to those that he harmed,” she says.

“If you're going to come out of silence after letting down a lot of people, those people seem to be like the primary audience that you're talking to, right? Like, not just not the people who need to be reminded that they, like David, can commit adultery and then be used by God.”

To hear more of Allie’s critical breakdown of Lawson’s book, watch the episode above.

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#IAmJaneDoe goes viral — but TikTok isn’t a courtroom



#IAmJaneDoe is trending after sexual assault allegations were levied against seven fraternity members at Cornell University by one woman, known as Jane Doe.

While TikTokers across the globe have picked up the story and have begun speaking out in defense of the young woman, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey points out that social media outrage is not a substitute for due process.

“You’ve met Jane Doe before,” one TikToker said, in protest of the accused. “You might not have realized it at the time, but you have. You may have passed her in the street. She could have poured the milk into your coffee or helped deliver your wife’s baby, read your kid a story.”

“You might have said good morning to her on a walk,” she continued. “There’s a chance that Jane Doe has smiled at you as you’ve held open the door. Jane could even live in your house. She could put the kettle on after a long day, always know where your keys are, but has never made it known that she is Jane Doe.”


Another TikToker said that it broke her heart that “the guy that invited her to the frat house that night was her friend.”

She went on to claim that Jane Doe was a “minor,” which Stuckey explains is not true.

“She wasn’t a minor. I just want to say that. She wasn’t a minor. She was under 21. She was illegally drinking,” she says.

“These men were not her friend,” she continues.

“None of these men were her friend, because this is not what friends do. This is not what people do who respect another human being, respect women, respect anyone. They should have helped her get a ride home. If they noticed that she was intoxicated, they shouldn’t have propositioned her for group sex.”

However, Stuckey notes that “she also shouldn’t have participated.”

“She shouldn’t have been there. She shouldn’t have been doing drugs. She shouldn’t have been drinking. She shouldn’t have consented to any of this,” she says.

“Am I saying that she is responsible for every bit of it? Am I saying for sure that there was never a time that she couldn’t consent? I don’t know,” she answers. “Am I saying that because she said once that is saying yes every single time and so there is no part of the night where she became a victim?”

Stuckey explains that while she’s “not saying that for sure,” you also “can’t say anything for sure.”

“That is the point that I am making, that it is her word against these men’s word,” she says.

“And I will not just assume that she is correct because she’s a woman or she is correct because she is an accuser,” she adds.

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Is the Swiftie army finally thinning out? Allie Beth Stuckey thinks she knows why



Is Taylor Swift’s colossal fanbase finally beginning to dwindle? BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey sees the writing on the wall, and it doesn’t look good for the global pop star. While Swift is coming off a record-breaking album and a very public marriage, her latest release has even some faithful Swifties wincing.

On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie sits down with former producer and longtime Swift fan Bri Schrader to have an honest conversation about Swift’s latest album release, whether or not it forebodes doom, and what Swift’s sudden “trad” shift may point to.

“So Taylor Swift released basically the deluxe version of her album ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ ... and everyone's talking about it because some of the songs are controversial,” says Bri.

She explains that the original album was already controversial because even hardcore fans thought it was “bad writing.” The four added songs only worsened matters.

Allie notes that “The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore” has a Metacritic score of “39 out of 100” — the “first red album” of Swift’s career.

“And then, we also have Poppie Platt, a reviewer for the Telegraph. She titled her review, ‘I'm a Swiftie, and even I think these songs are terrible.’ ... She said that what [Swift] doesn't seem to have realized is that the music must be good to do a surprise release,” Allie continues.

“Do you think, as some people are speculating, that she has lost her artistic edge since meeting Travis?” she asks.

“I love Taylor Swift, but I have felt that almost every song that's been about him has just not been her strongest lyrically. And so has she lost her edge? I don't know. I mean, maybe,” says Bri.

“She wrote a whole album about concepts and stories that aren't even hers or related to her and that was my favorite album of hers, and so I think she's still able to tap into that. So maybe it's just the songs that are strictly about [Travis] that are kind of meh to me,” she continues, noting that people are specifically “clowning on” Swift’s song “Cleveland,” which is about Kelce taking her to see his hometown.

Bri believes Swift has entered a new era. “She's in this phase right now that's very like, ‘Oh, screw the haters. I found my man, and he plays football.’ She has, like, five songs that are just basically that,” she says, “and I think that's what I'm tired of a little bit.”

“You would think she'd be more popular than ever having this football husband, having gotten married, obviously being excited about getting married,” says Allie.

“Maybe it's because she's moved even more. I mean, obviously she was always mainstream ... but she's gone into other realms that typically maybe don't think about Taylor Swift ... and now people just feel a need to always commentate on her life or her politics.”

“I feel like people are more annoyed with her in general than in seasons past in her life.”

Bri agrees that Swift’s public perception is shifting. “There's a section of people who have always not liked her, who have always thought she was cheesy and annoying. Then there's the people, I think, who were turned off by this album specifically,” she says, explaining how certain songs expressing desire for marriage and motherhood were criticized for being too traditional.

“People are now like, ‘OK, so she's going to be a little trad now,’ and that's annoying to a lot of the people who liked her before,” Bri continues. “So I think those things combined, she's just at levels of annoying for most people right now, which is unfortunate for her.”

Allie believes Swift’s sudden shift to traditionalism is less about a real change of heart and more about political influence.

“Her and the Kelces are all a part of a psyop. ... I'm not saying that it's not real, but they represent what Democrats want to convey — that you can be a progressive feminist who likes Kamala Harris and hates Donald Trump and you're from the Midwest, you represent normal Americans, you can be trad, you can have kids,” she speculates.

“But I think when presidential election time comes around that the Kelce-Swift combo is going to be flexing their influence muscles for the Democrats.”

In their crosshairs, she argues, will be a very specific demographic: “that white suburban mom ... that instinctively doesn't like Trump but is also kind of trad.”

“And I think the more trad she gets and the more she remains progressive in other ways, the more they think that she's going to be able to persuade people over to their side. ... She's playing a long ideological game here,” says Allie.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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1960s feminism, abortion, and the occult broke her. Then Jesus saved her.



Candy Thompson came of age during the cultural revolution of the 1960s, when young women were told that liberation meant rejecting traditional womanhood and breaking free from the home.

She believed it.

But the freedom she was promised led her down a painful path marked by abuse, multiple abortions, spiritual confusion, and profound regret.

“The first abortion was after we had our son,” she says, telling Stuckey that her husband was not only not a Christian, but he was abusive.

“And we already had a son, and we were happy with him, and I thought well, this will be good, we’ll have our second child, maybe a girl, and I really wanted a girl,” she explains, though when she told her husband that she was pregnant, an argument erupted.


“The argument led to, you know, some words, and then he lost his temper and kicked me. He kicked me in the stomach,” she says.

While the abuse didn’t lead to the loss of her child, she was then “coerced into that abortion by feeling that [she] was trapped, that [she] had no other choice.”

She recalls the “dead feeling” that follows an abortion “and the horrible regret.”

“They’re having a regret, right afterwards, even though it looked like this was the best solution, you know, and instead they have the greatest regret of their lives a lot of times and just, you know, suffer for years and years,” she says.

Candy then got pregnant again and was made to get another abortion.

This is when she began “searching in other things to find answers.”

“Instead of the Bible and going to God like I wish I had, of course, I went to the feminine mystique at that time, and it just really, what it did is it just validated what I had been thinking, that I was a slave in the home there,” she tells Stuckey.

“I even went into the occult and read some occultic books at that time,” she continues, explaining that she was trying to “find the spiritual reason” behind everything that had happened to her and used the idea of reincarnation to “convince [herself] that [her] child wasn’t gone and [her] children weren’t gone.”

“We know in our spirit, we know in our hearts that they really were, they really are real. They’re our children,” she adds.

When she got pregnant a third time, this time she refused to have an abortion.

“I was determined that I was not going to be that slave anymore, that person anymore,” she tells Stuckey.

“We had the baby girl. She was beautiful. And I had always wanted to have a girl too,” she says.

However, after the birth of her second living child, she was placed in the psychiatric ward and had another abortion before finally divorcing her husband.

That’s when she began to go to church and met her second husband.

“I knew God had put us together,” she says, explaining that while her second husband was unhappy with her previous abortions, she was able to surrender her past to him and really start her relationship with Christ.

“My heart wanted to be back with God, and that marked the beginning of a long journey, of a lot of things, that God had to continue bringing me into more light,” she adds.

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From Disney’s ‘Hexed’ to Barbie songs: How kids’ entertainment sells self as savior



Walt Disney Animation Studios’ upcoming fantasy-comedy “Hexed” — which follows teenage witch Billie Doe as she discovers her magical powers and leaves behind normal life to join the world of witches — is set to hit theaters this November.

BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey already has major concerns about the film, starting with the premise.

“It's presenting witchcraft and being a witch not as a bad thing — not as like the evil witch from 'Snow White' — but actually possibly as a good thing, as a neutral thing, or even as a superpower,” she says.

On this episode of “Relatable,” Allie is joined by Jenn Nizza, a former psychic medium who left the New Age after converting to Christianity, to explore how witchcraft and occultism have seeped their way into mainstream culture, including the areas that most impact children.

While movies like “Hexed” and “K-Pop Demon Hunters,” among others, deliberately lean into open witchcraft and demonic themes, other kid films and forms of entertainment take a more subliminal approach.

Allie shares that she recently had to stop her young daughter from listening to Barbie music.

“Every single song is about loving yourself and believing in yourself ... and if you are just more yourself and you live out your authentic expressions, then you'll have all the power that you need to accomplish anything that you want in life,” she says.

“It’s laying the exact opposite theological foundation than the one that I want to be set for her, which is that all of your sufficiency and strength and wisdom and power is going to come from Christ, not from yourself at all,” she adds.

Nizza argues that even something as seemingly benign as Disney’s classic “wishing upon a star” trope is designed to confuse and corrupt a child’s identity.

“It just looks like something ... hidden in a Barbie movie. I mean, nostalgia plays a big part. It'll be something again that focuses on yourself, on the idea of your heart, of love, wishing on things like the Disney wishing upon a star,” she says.

“Unfortunately, we're seeing such disastrous things going on in our culture that are very terrifying quite honestly that revolve around 'you can be whoever you want, and if you're not comfortable with where you are, you can change things about yourself.’ ... It's a confusion of identity. That's what it is,” she declares.

It’s no surprise to Nizza, however, because she believes Satan almost always “attacks through identity.”

“Sex, gender, weight, hair color, whatever it may be. Anything to confuse that person and get them away from having a real identity, a liberating and salvific identity in Christ Jesus,” she says.

“We want [our kids] to know they're made in the image of God, that He fearfully and wonderfully made them and all of those things, but we need to make sure that they are deriving their confidence from the right places — not from their own power because to me that's what lays the groundwork for some of this really, really dark and evil stuff,” adds Allie.

To hear more, watch the episode above.

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'Death of the Pastor’s Wife': Everyone’s getting this wrong about JP Miller



Mica Miller was a 30-year-old worship leader at Solid Rock Church when she was found dead from a gunshot wound just two days after serving her husband, JP Miller, lead pastor and founder of the church, with divorce papers.

Authorities ruled her death a suicide.

The death has led to the Netflix documentary series “Death of the Pastor’s Wife,” which dives into the prior allegations of abuse against her husband — and questions whether or not her death was truly a suicide.

However, while the series puts an emphasis on JP’s religion as a reason for his alleged crimes and potential part in his wife’s passing, BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey explains that he and his church were not biblically aligned at all.


“The problem with John Paul Miller at Solid Rock was abuse of power, was deviation from Scripture, rejection of biblical truth, not the hierarchy that is actually outlined in Scripture,” Stuckey explains.

And Miller was refusing to submit to Scripture long before Mica's passing.

“There had been affairs before that. There had been allegations of abuse. There had been allegations of infidelity. There had been all kinds of scandals with Susie, the woman that he had apparently had an affair with,” Stuckey explains.

“There were accusations of grooming of Mica when she was a teenager. There should have been church discipline long, long before Mica Miller committed suicide,” she continues.

“John Paul’s first wife, Allison,” she explains, “said in an affidavit that when John Paul admitted to the affair with Mica, he also admitted to soliciting prostitutes, being sexually inappropriate with several female underage church members.”

John Paul’s church even recognized his “sin problem” and asked him to “step away from the pulpit.”

“But according to the church bylaws, no one within the church had the authority to make him do that,” Stuckey says.

“According to Allison’s affidavit, a council was formed and voted for John Paul to step down to get sexual addiction counseling. But instead of stepping down, John Paul held a meeting informing the council that according to the church’s bylaws, he had 100% decision-making authority,” she continues.

“That’s not the structure that’s outlined by Scripture,” she adds.

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Is Greta Gerwig's 'Narnia' Netflix sending a 'transgender' message?



Netflix’s upcoming "Narnia" adaptation is leaving BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey with some concerns, especially considering the original author C.S. Lewis’ work has helped shape her to be the Christian she is today.

“His work really exists like in the backdrop of my mind,” Stuckey says, explaining that his work “drew [her] heart and [her] mind into wanting to understand Christianity better."

“When you understand what he is trying to articulate when it comes to the battle of good and evil, the creation of the earth, the eternal plan of redemption that God is carrying off without a hitch, then those seemingly small and mundane descriptions in 'The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe,' they really just, they catch you,” she continues.

“And C.S. Lewis has an incredible way of doing that. And so I really care about this adaptation. I really care about how people are introduced to C.S. Lewis’ work,” she adds.


However, she doesn’t believe director Greta Gerwig is the right one to make the introduction.

While Stuckey admits that Gerwig is “very talented” and has directed films like "Little Women" and "Barbie," she is now making headlines for “creating Narnia as what she describes as a rock opera.”

“And she’s cast Meryl Streep ... as the voice of Aslan. He is the lion, if you don’t know, and he is the creator. He’s the one true king of Narnia. He is kind of the Christ character in C.S. Lewis’ fantasy series,” she explains.

Gerwig explained her reasoning as wanting “someone who was profound but not pretentious, who had gravitas but not morose self-seriousness. Someone who could communicate depth and pathos as well as joy and delight.”

“But Meryl Streep is a woman,” Stuckey says. “And Aslan is portrayed as a ‘he’ through this series. And it’s important.”

“Now I think there’s going to be a lot of guesses about whether or not this is some kind of message about transgenderism or gender fluidity or feminism. I don’t know. I don’t know. I mean, it is a strange choice when you think about a woman voicing a male character and continuing to be called male,” she continues.

“I don’t know if that is the political point that she’s trying to make, or if she’s just trying to do what a lot of artists do, and that’s blur lines and do things that don’t make sense,” she adds.

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‘A vessel of destruction’: Ex-psychic calls out Taylor Swift for normalizing witchcraft



Jenn Nizza is an ex-psychic medium who converted to Christianity over a decade ago. Her platform today heavily revolves around warning people against falling prey to mainstream occultism. That includes the obvious — divination, tarot cards, crystals, manifesting, and astrology — but it also includes things like subliminal messaging in Disney movies and Taylor Swift music.

For years, Nizza has warned that she believes the pop icon deliberately infuses her music with “New Age ideologies” and even performs “witchcraft on the stage.”

On this episode of “Relatable,” Nizza joins Allie Beth Stuckey again to warn Swifties that their beloved idol is on a mission to normalize witchcraft.

“[Taylor Swift] is a pop star that's using her platform for the enemy. ... She is being used as a vessel of destruction because she is promoting and glamorizing New Age and occult ideologies and practices like karma and especially numerology,” says Nizza, noting that Swift is “obsessed with the number 13” and even “makes decisions based on this number.”

The spiritual darkness surrounding Swift, she argues, has grown over time — which is precisely the point.

“She appeared as somebody so innocent and Christian-like in the beginning, and I really believe that's how the enemy does this because then you get your gathering. ... You get your platform. You get your followers, right?” says Nizza. “The Swifties came in, and then the darkness starts to come out, and that is to, of course, indoctrinate masses of people.”

She gives the example of Swift’s song “Invisible String” — a folk-pop love ballad about fate quietly tying her to a lover through small coincidences across years, as if an unseen thread had been pulling them together all along.

While perhaps trivial at first glance, Nizza explains that the invisible string theory originates from New Age occultism.

“The invisible string theory is the idea that there is an invisible string around one of your fingers and an invisible string around another person's finger that is kind of like your twin flame, the person you're meant to be with,” she says, noting that belief in this concept often leads people to “divorce” and other sins.

“It is a doctrine of demons, meaning a teaching of demons and not the Holy Spirit. There is no such thing as an imaginary string around anybody's finger,” she adds.

The invisible string and other New Age concepts, like zodiac signs and energy readings, Nizza argues, are all demonic because they’re predicated on the idea that “you are your own authority” and that “the universe will assist you in getting things you want.”

She explains that this paradigm is the opposite of Christianity, which puts Christ alone on the throne and calls people to be “accountable for [sin]” and seek “forgiveness.”

“There's so much freedom in Christ ... but in the New Age, what's good is bad, and what's bad is good. It's backwards,” she says.

To hear Allie and Nizza unpack occultism hidden in other areas of culture, including children’s entertainment, watch the episode above.

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