#Pastor mike todd news series#

We are told we’re created in the image of God, but every conversation of our bodies is cloaked in shame and sin while naming everyone but ourselves as the owners of our personhood. His sermon engages a long history of men preaching about the bodies of women with themselves, their opinions, and desirability as it concerns us as the center. Todd’s choice to shame a trend that he’s obviously been scrolling through is just the tipping point of hypocrisy in the pulpit. Todd’s use of the Silhouette Challenge, however, is strange and begs the question Jameelah Jones asks: “How do you know about the silhouette challenge and what women are showing under their clothes?” Given that Pastor has likely curated his timeline to like-minded people and that there are no accidents in the algorithm, to see so many of a very specific niche challenge means that one has attuned their algorithm to it through consistent engagement. Male pastors often choose to parade the bodies of women – who make up the majority of congregations – through their sermons. Yet this sermonic moment lacked a challenge to men to consider their mindset while pushing performative modesty onto women in Jesus’s name. It feels like stating the obvious here but if a man doesn’t want to get to know me after seeing the illusion of nudity, the problem is his intention, not my actions. Yet, Todd drops the ball when speaking to women, diminishing our worth to the sum of our body parts. In an attempt at equity, Todd does put the onus on other men in his sermon, asking them to “be a husband that is not trying to impress his college buddies, but be an anchor for your family that may not be as impressive on the ‘gram but you’re impacting the next generation to love and lead their families.” These words see the fullness of men’s humanity and speak to the height of their potential to hold families together and heal generational cycles of brokenness. Todd may be the most recent voice admonishing women to not seek to be impressive with their bodies, but his words echo a generations-long tradition of the church’s repression of women’s bodies and sexuality. The removal of a heretical statement of faith after being exposed as a Joel Osteen like figure is a bit of a coverup in the face of higher theological scrutiny Michael Todd has perhaps not seen before.Let’s call a thing a thing, here. However online archives have saved the page containing the heretical statement of faith. The success of the verdict has likely gotten the attention of the prosperity preacher who has since removed the linked page from his church’s website. The verdict on Michael Todd appears on the first page of Google in the various ways his name is searched, according to screenshots below and Evangelical Dark Web‘s Google search performance.

#Pastor mike todd news series#

However, it also comes at a time when Michael Todd is releasing a book on his sermon series “Relationship Goals” that went viral. This comes at a time when Transformation Church would be relying on online traffic during COVID-19. The current website does not contain a statement of faith. The statement of faith had contained the Prosperity Gospel As quoted in “Is Michael Todd a false teacher?” This would change when the verdict on Michael Todd became the most read article on Evangelical Dark Web and so far in May, the page that previously had Transformation Church’s statement of faith was the most clicked on external link.īut since the time of publish, originally March, Transformation Church has removed its statement of faith from its website.

This led to a reader-requested verdict on Michael Todd which concluded that he was a preacher of the Prosperity Gospel based on the stated beliefs of Transformation Church which boasted an aggressive Prosperity Gospel. It’s dynamic pastor, Michael Todd, is one of the most trendy pastors on social media. Transformation Church may be one of the most influential churches in America in the years to come.