[Contributed by special Twitter friend @Caner_Repent] I find the whole controversy surrounding Ergun Caner embarrassing and I can’t wait for it to be over. So in the interest of ushering the controversy to a speedy conclusion, I want to challenge Ergun Caner and his supporters to end it once and for all. The issue is … Read more
Monday’s Program – Alan Doane; On Monday’s program, JD begins by discussing a recent article he posted at Pulpit & Pen about whether or not Christians are obligated to register or surrender their firearms. Click here for the link. JD also spoke to Montana legislator, Alan Doane, about various issues relating to Christians in politics. … Read more
Who out there, among the professing, has had the most deleterious effect on the health of the body of Christ in the year 2022? Using a number of criteria Pulpit & Pen has identified a list of nominees from a pool of eligible individuals (obvious charlatans and the theologically heterodox* were not included for consideration). In … Read more
“We’ve made a lot of progress, but we have a long way to go.” So said former Southern Baptist Convention President (SBC) and founding pastor of Cross Pointe Church James Merritt during the 2019 Southern Baptist Convention in Birmingham. Merritt made these remarks while participating in a six-person panel on Racial Reconciliation. According to Merritt, … Read more
California is a state that has pushed the envelope for years on social issues. Now, in the latest news from, perhaps, the strangest corner of the planet, comes a shocking claim that the state concludes that infanticide is not a crime in the context of abortion. Yes, the stage is set for the merciless killing … Read more
You might remember in the news when prosecutors decided to charge two investigative journalists from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) with 14 felony counts for taping confidential information without consent, which ultimately exposed that Planned Parenthood was trafficking in baby body parts. What you might not have known until today is that Planned Parenthood … Read more
Consider this a public service announcement to news outlets and blogs who should know about something before they opine on it; Founders Ministries and the majority of Social Justice opponents are not “Neo-Calvinists.” Stop saying that. Religion News Service (RNS), a progressive news outlet, referred to Founders Ministries as “Neo-Calvinists” in a hit-piece yesterday. That … Read more
According to web rank, Pulpit & Pen has more readers than the Religion News Service, the Baptist Press, Charisma News, and other major Christian News publications. However, we don’t have the support of large corporations or denominations because we are independent Christian news. The Religion News Foundation – in partnership with RNS – for example, … Read more
The late Dan Rooney is the former owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, who died in 2012. He was a Roman Catholic and a supporter of Barack Obama, serving that President’s administration as the US Ambassador to Ireland. He is most notably remembered for an NFL rule that bears his name. “The Rooney Rule” requires teams … Read more
Nichola Torbett has been thinking a lot recently about what it means to be safe and who gets to feel safe. “I feel, as a white woman, a right to feel comfortable, because the world is kind of made and designed for white people,” Torbett said. “So when I don’t feel comfortable, I think oh … Read more
Connect316 is a group of Southern Baptist pastors and leaders that essentially exists to oppose Calvinism in the denomination, holding to what they have termed “Traditionalism.” A historic misnomer, the doctrinal position held by Connect316 is a rather new and novel mediated position between Calvinism and Arminianism, subordinating God’s sovereignty to man’s Free Will while … Read more
