Former OnlyFans Star Nala Ray joined former adult film star Brittni De La Mora on the podcast, “Uncensored W/ Brittni De La Mora,” to talk about how Jesus redeemed Ray from the darkness of sex work and set her free. 

Ray was extremely successful on OnlyFans, making millions of dollars from the platform, all while the job was destroying her life. She explained how her experience with OnlyFans differed from what De La Mora experienced making adult films and also offered a warning to any woman considering joining the platform.

“If there’s a woman right now who’s either contemplating getting on OnlyFans or wants to get off, how would you encourage her?” De La Mora asked Ray near the end of their conversation.

“The devil has a budget,” Ray replied, saying that was a phrase her husband told her. “The devil can only give you so much. So to them, I would literally say, ‘You can only go so far. This is not a career. These actions will have consequences.’” 

Nala Ray Shares Her Story With Mentor Brittni De La Mora

Last year, Nala Ray went viral for sharing with her followers that after making millions as one of the top creators on user-generated porn site OnlyFans, she had become a Christian, deleted all her content and gotten baptized. 

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Some people criticized Ray, claiming that her faith was not genuine or saying that she should not be sharing her testimony publicly so soon after becoming a Christian. Ray defended herself against her critics, who included Hannah Pearl Davis, saying, “The truth is that I got absolutely radically saved by Christ, and when I say radically saved, it’s because I came out of such an incredibly dark place in my life.” 

Ray has shared her story on several podcasts, including “The Deep End With Lecrae” and “The Michael Knowles Show.” In interviews and on her social media, Ray revealed that she had a deeply troubled childhood with absent parents who did not have very much money, divorced and remarried each other, and fought often. 

Ray’s father became a pastor for his own selfish reasons, went through “three consecutive church splits,” and is now “facing a prison sentence.” As a child, Ray was homeschooled, given strict rules, and isolated. At age 13, a boy she knew molested her, shaping how she viewed sex, which she came to see as a way of gaining power. 

Ray’s conversation with De La Mora was unique in that both women spent years in the porn industry before Jesus set them free from it. Brittni De La Mora and her husband, Richard, founded Love Always Ministries, a non-profit that “helps people walk in their calling by discovering God’s love and leading a victorious life through purity.” In addition to providing other resources, they co-host the “Let’s Talk Purity” podcast.

In a recent appearance on Dr. Jordan Peterson’s podcast, former football star Tim Tebow answered questions about masculinity and winning while steering the conversation toward Christian service and humility.

Tebow’s life and message seemed to fascinate Peterson, a Canadian psychologist who has said Western culture unfairly assaults masculinity as toxic. Peterson, who is conservative but doesn’t identify as a Christian, often talks to leaders about the role of churches and fathers.

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As he did throughout his athletic career, Tebow openly shared his faith and Scripture verses on the podcast. The Heisman Trophy winner, football analyst, philanthropist, and soon-to-be first-time father spoke with Peterson about the challenges of worldly success and the benefits of being vulnerable and selfless.

Tim Tebow on Fighting for People in Need

While introducing the conversation, Peterson said culture’s equation of male dominance with “patriarchal oppressiveness” is “wrong in a deadly way because it demoralizes young men.”

The commentator described Tebow, 37, as someone who “figured out how to take that competitive striving and that desire for excellence and that hatred of losing and to transmute it into a form of high-level motivation” that went beyond “the good of winning.”

Peterson told Tebow he was impressed by the “breadth” of the athlete’s foundation, launched back in 2010. Tebow, the son of missionaries, recalled being inspired at age 15 by Sherwin, a Filipino boy “born with his feet on backwards.”

Although villagers viewed disabilities as a curse, young Tebow literally embraced Sherwin and talked to him and his friends about God’s love. Through that encounter, God steered Tebow to “fight for people [who] couldn’t fight for themselves.”

The two-time college national champion and a national championship MVP said he’d always tried to be “the best” because he hated losing. “But God pricked my heart…and said, ‘I have a more important MVP for you to chase,’” Tebow told Peterson. “It’s not the Most Valuable Player. It’s the Most Vulnerable People, because they’re worth far more than some other MVP [award].”

The Value of Humility and Loss

Peterson, who often uses biblical references, spoke about the “Christian revolution” of the last being first, calling that “a complete redefinition of what constitutes sovereignty.” Referring to Sherwin, Peterson noted that Tebow’s life was changed through “a direct encounter with someone who was the opposite of what you were celebrated for.”

NEW YORK (RNS) — As she approached the pulpit on Easter Sunday (April 20), the Rev. Jacqueline J. Lewis, the senior minister of Middle Collegiate Church, couldn’t hold back her tears. It was the first time the congregation had gathered in a building it could call its own since a December 2020 fire destroyed the historic church’s 128-year-old home.

“I’m so glad you’re here, in this incredible moment, on this incredible historic day, when we come back home,” Lewis told the congregation dressed in their Easter finery.

The morning worship service, led by Middle’s choir, drew hundreds of people who came to celebrate both Christ’s resurrection and Middle Collegiate’s rising from the ashes of the devastating fire, which not only left the congregation homeless but prompted churchwide soul searching about their future.

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The years of scrambling to preserve the church’s mission during renovations, the senior minister said, were trying, but affirmed for her the value of the community. “The larger project, to me, wasn’t raising the money. The larger project was to continue to raise hope and a sense of resilience and a sense of joy that we got this,” she said.

In the winter of 2020 and 2021, just as many other New York congregations were returning to in-person services after COVID-19 lockdowns, Middle had to remain online. But Lewis knew the group had a will to gather. “Being placeless was a challenge for our people. … You’re in the wilderness and you yearn for home,” she said. They tapped interfaith connections to find shared space at Calvary Church-St. George’s, an Episcopal church in the Gramercy Park neighborhood, and later East End Temple in the Lower East Side and Judson Memorial Church in the West Village.

Meanwhile, the church’s leadership worked to rebuild its sanctuary by incorporating what remained of the neo-Gothic facade of the 1892 church and its back wall, which had survived the fire, but barely. In the end, they were too damaged to be used, and after permission from New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission was secured, the decision was made to demolish the walls. In November 2023, congregants watched them go down from the same corner they’d watched the church burn down, adding “another layer of grief,” said Lewis.

The facade’s demolition, however, freed up funds that had been going to propping it up, giving the renovation a fresh start. As a new church was planned, the congregation shifted its worship to a social hall for the church whose front door was around the corner, at 50 E. Seventh St. Though it was severely damaged by water used to put out the fire, this annex building was whole enough to serve as a new sanctuary.

Lewis, quoting a verse from the Bible’s Book of Isaiah — “I am doing a new thing: now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?” — said the community sees a biblical sign in this former social space being repurposed.

As the last parts of the former sanctuary vanished, the congregation, founded in 1628 by Reformed Dutch settlers, also turned to reinventing its identity, said Lewis. “Without the facade, we’re still us. Without the facade, there’s even a stronger future opportunity. We get to start from scratch on that lot, and see what it is that God is calling us to build,” she said.

Clint Pressley, pastor of Hickory Grove Baptist Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, and president of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), will be nominated again this year to be the SBC’s president. Michael Criner, senior pastor of First Baptist Church of Rockwall, Texas, announced on April 14 that he plans to nominate Pressley at the SBC’s 2025 annual meeting.

“I am honored to announce my intention to nominate @pastorclint as SBC President at our Annual Meeting in Dallas,” Criner said in an April 14 X post that included a Biblical Recorder article about the news. “Clint has done a fantastic job of joyfully serving Southern Baptists with humility & conviction. I hope you’ll join me in voting for him this June!”

I am honored to announce my intention to nominate @pastorclint as SBC President at our Annual Meeting in Dallas. Clint has done a fantastic job of joyfully serving Southern Baptists with humility & conviction. I hope you’ll join me in voting for him this June! https://t.co/63tsRGOpBH

— Michael Criner (@michaelcriner) April 14, 2025

Clint Pressley: It’s Been a ‘Really Positive Experience’

Clint Pressley was elected president of the SBC during last year’s annual meeting in Indianapolis after a second run-off vote. He was one of six candidates, the other five being David Allen, Bruce Frank, Mike Keahbone, Jared Moore, and Dan Spencer.

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Regarding his views on the responsibility of the SBC president, Pressley mentioned leading Southern Baptists to “support our confession” and “our commitment to the Great Commission.”

In a statement to Biblical Recorder, Criner said, “While this renomination is no surprise, it is coming after sincere prayer and ongoing conversations with a wide number of SBC pastors.”

“During his first year, Clint Pressley has displayed clarity, conviction, and courage,” said Criner. “One of the most admirable qualities of Clint is that in every environment where he has represented the SBC, he has joyfully pointed us to the very best of who we are and what we do: our confession and our cooperation for/towards the Great Commission.”

Pressley confirmed to Baptist Press (BP), the official news service of the Southern Baptist Convention, that he is willing to be nominated again for the role of SBC president, saying that his past year as president has “been a really positive experience all the way through.”

“Going to the seminaries, you see the education students are getting. I’ve met our entity heads and been a part of the IMB [International Mission Board] commissioning service,” Pressley told BP. “All of it has been a good reminder that Southern Baptists are a really good movement in the evangelical world and do a great job. It’s an honor to be a part of that.”

Two major topics of conversation in the SBC over the past several years have been sexual abuse reforms and women’s roles in church leadership. Pressley was a supporter of the Law Amendment, which did not gain enough votes to be ratified last year and would have enshrined in the SBC’s constitution a ban on ordaining women as pastors.