Liberal Heretics Don't Belong in the Pulpit

“There is nothing more useless on this planet than a liberal preacher.” – Paul Washer

For more than 35 years, Jim Rigby has served as senior pastor of St. Andrews Presbyterian Church in Austin TX. To put it as bluntly as I can, he is a heretic who should be publicly defrocked and stripped of both his ordination and his position as pastor. Sadly, neither will happen because he is a member of the increasingly liberal PCUSA, a denomination that in the past 20 years has affirmed not only same-sex marriage but also gay clergy.

Rigby actually prides himself for being socially progressive. In fact, St. Andrews was one of the few churches in Texas to achieve the "Reproductive Freedom Congregation" designation from the Texas Freedom Network for “proudly proclaiming that abortion is a moral and social good.” How shameful is that? And yet, it gets worse.

In 2016, Rigby called a Texas bill mandating that fetal remains be cremated or buried instead of disposed of like medical waste a "ghoulish assault on Texas women". If the bill were to pass, Rigby wrote, “we should hold a burial or cremation for amputated feet and for each of our extracted teeth.”

That’s right, folks, this supposed “man of the cloth” compared an aborted human embryo to an extracted molar.

In 2005, at Rigby’s insistence, St. Andrews accepted into its membership a local college professor who admitted that, "I don't believe in God. I don't believe Jesus Christ was the son of a God that I don't believe in, nor do I believe Jesus rose from the dead to ascend to a heaven that I don't believe exists."

I guess that shouldn’t surprise anyone because Rigby is on record as denying the Virgin Birth and Christ’s physical resurrection from the dead, calling the latter “a one-time magic trick”. Rigby also preaches that the way to heaven is not through personal repentance and faith in Jesus Christ, but rather by simply applying His teachings to the best of our ability.

Mocking the possibility of a Holy God exercising His wrath on Judgment Day, Rigby wrote, “Let's just hope God has a handle on that anger problem by now.”

As if all this wasn’t bad enough, James Talarico, the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in Texas, attends Rigby’s church, shares his twisted theology, and calls him one of his most influential spiritual mentors. May God prevent James Talarico’s election and may God evict Jim Rigby – and liberal liars like him – from America’s pulpits.

“For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.” Jude 4 (NIV)

- Rev. Dale M. Glading, President