Tag Archives: Anchorage Baptist Temple

Anchorage Baptist Temple prepares to enter Prop 5 debate, as tax assessor’s investigation continues

After a period of relative silence, Anchorage Baptist Temple is now preparing to raise its head in public discussion on Proposition 5. ABT associate pastor Glenn Clary filed on February 21 with the Alaska Public Offices Commission (APOC) as chair of a new group called “Protect Your Freedoms Vote No on Prop 5. Continue reading

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Prevo divorce documents raise “loosey-goosey” questions about Anchorage Baptist Temple house

by Mel Green | posted originally on Bent Alaska Court documents in the divorce of Allen Prevo, son of Anchorage Baptist Temple pastor Jerry Prevo, and Holly Jo Prevo raise questions about ABT religious exemption housing. Or, in the judge’s … Continue reading

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My neighbor is a Time Lord

Can the Doctor save us from the Rapture Van? Can Buffy avert the post-Rapture Apocalypse? Is there really a Hellmouth at Baxter & Northern Lights, and a TARDIS at my apartment complex?

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Why I picked Dick Traini over Andy Clary, & you should too (Anchorage Assembly Midtown Seat F)

Three reasons to vote for Dick Traini over Andy Clary in next Tuesday’s municipal election: (1) Dan Sullivan; (2) LGBTQ equality (or rather, its lack); (3) experience. Please vote on April 6!

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Good for my worldbuilding, bad for my world

One tool for inventing an imaginary story universe in science fiction is extrapolating from the present into the future. Granting corporations lots of extra power as the Supreme Court did recently is very good for my worldbuilding. But is very bad for the world I actually live in.

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James Dobson’s God is a child abuser, & so is Jerry Prevo’s

Max Blumenthal’s new book Republican Gomorrah talks among other things about corporal punishment in Christianist practices of child discipline — practices taught by Focus on the Family leader James Dobson and, at least in 1985, Anchorage Baptist Temple pastor Jerry Prevo.

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No Questions, Questions (poem)

You wouldn’t think Jerry Prevo would inspire poetry, wouldja? But this is the 2nd I’ve written b/c of him. Yikes.

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Christianist, defined

I first used this term in the post “The new Carrie Prejean?” I’m using often enough that it seems helpful to break the definition I used there out into a separate post. Christianist is a term I first heard from … Continue reading

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Debbie Ossiander & the Christianist filibuster

Is Debbie Ossiander cooperating intentionally or unintentionally with Prevo & co.’s filibustering techniques? And let’s not forget those Mat-Su witnesses she’s allowing to testify.

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Three Assembly hearings: A compilation

Compiling posts and publications on the first three hearings on the AO 2009-64, the Anchorage equal rights ordinance.

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