Then · 2020-04-29
[moderate] Moderate — jeremiad plus COVID/public-health contempt
A sustained 'churches have lost the power / world is savage' jeremiad; pulpit mockery of mask-wearers as spiritual fakes during an active respiratory pandemic; reinterpretation of 'without natural affection' as maternal abortion that frames women who have had abortions as a sign of the apocalypse.
Top Axis-2 finding: Pulpit mockery of mask-wearing during an active respiratory pandemic
“People these days because of koban coronavirus… we're gonna should we wear masks to church and wasn't you kidding me I know people who didn't wear a mask to church for 40 years of their life that's all they ever do they wear a mask they're classic…”
Now · 2026-02-09
[moderate] Low-moderate; mostly jeremiad register
No targeted attack on an identifiable group in this sermon. Persistent 'Bible vs. culture on a collision course' jeremiad and caricature of protesters ('people are mad at America and don't even know why') carry Christian-nationalism adjacency, but Locke explicitly de-centers partisan politics ('it doesn't matter if a Republican's in there… I'm not looking to the White House'). A 'Billy Graham rule' section casts adult women as presumed-suspect counseling partners.
Top Axis-2 finding: Jeremiad: 'the Bible and the culture are on a collision course'
“I'm not a cultural Christian. I'm a Bible Christian. Because the Bible and the culture are on a collision course. You are one or the other, but you are not both at the same time. We have to hold fast what we know to be good, what we know to be rig…”