In February of the year 2000, in South St. Louis, Missouri, the 300-member Redeemer Evangelical United Church of Christ got a new pastor. His name was George Dohm. Soon after he arrived, he told select members whom he called his “disciples” that within five years he’d be able to take the church out of the denomination, which he considered degenerate for failing to embrace the inerrancy of the Bible or to attack gays.
John Dorhauer
Rev. Dr. John C. Dorhauer is a staffmember of the United Church of Christ’s Missouri Mid-South Conference and coauthor of Steeplejacking: How the A movement that emerged in the 1970s encompassing a wide swath of conservative Catholicism and Protestant evangelicalism. Learn more is Highjacking Mainstream Religion.
