The theological ineptness of Karen Swallow Prior, Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary’s new professor, knows no limits. In her attempt to defend female preachers, the self-professed feminist and animal rights activist claimed that Jesus broke the Sabbath, making it okay that women bend the Bible’s rules on preaching. Yesterday’s controversy started when Danny Akin – who … 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 2019? 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
By this point, almost everyone knows that Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, free from the conservatism of Paige Patterson and newly staffed by an army of Social Justice drones from Albert Mohler’s Southern Seminary, fired Dr. Robert Lopez because he kept preaching that God would change the desires of homosexuals if they’re born again. Dr. Lopez … Read more
Jonathan Merritt, a prominent journalist for various Christian publications, called President Donald Trump a “sex offender” in a recent tweet. Jonathan Merritt shares certain communicable attributes with three dollar bills. He lives life with one foot in the closet and the other closet on the fabulously gay red carpet. Merritt, who on a scale from … Read more
Wayne Grudem has ordinarily been stalwart on the position of male and female gender roles and how the genders are to relate within the confines of marriage. However, Grudem is now changing those beliefs in accordance to culture and riding upon the waves of the #MeToo and #ChurchToo Movement. Grudem helped to form the Council … Read more
Karen Swallow Prior is a huge celebrity in the LGBTQ community. She attends gay fundraisers, endorsed the gay Revoice conference (both before and afterward), and has a ton of gay followers. And, she just posted a photo of herself and gay BFF, Brandon Ambrosino, on Instagram. According to Prior, “had to go all the way … Read more
In a barely intelligible, stuttering, vaguely-coherent and painfully long answer on his podcast to a question about female preachers, Mohler claimed that the Bible does not allow women to preach to men. The long and stuttering answer from Mohler could have been summarized in two words…Go home. Mohler clearly felt uneasy answering the question and … Read more
He who laughs last laughs best” – The Christmas Prince, 1608 England I don’t know who Chris Bolt is, exactly. He’s one of these twitter personalities who seem to have no life or societal impact other than what happens in 280 characters or less. Once upon a time, however, he blogged. And, Bolt blogged about … Read more
Professor Karen Swallow Prior (formerly of Liberty University and now of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary) has spent the last several years of her career earning the disdain of conservative Christians everywhere. Prior, while employed as an English teacher at Christian colleges, has made a second career of offending biblical sensibilities. Pulpit & Pen has written … Read more
Danny Akin is doing more speaking for Karen Swallow Prior than she has ever done for herself. The woman, who majors in nuance and minors in whimsy, is characteristically unclear. She is also double-minded and frequently contradicts herself, often in spectacular ways. As SEBTS is reeling from the incredibly stupid decision to hire Prior – … Read more
Albert Mohler and Danny Akin told the Baptist Press that there is no liberal drift in the SBC. In spite of that ostrich-in-the-sand approach at surveying reality, the Southern Baptist Convention’s president, JD Greear, just suggested that we call ‘transgender’ people their preferred pronouns. He called it “pronoun hospitality,’ and credited Revoice homosexual, Preston Sprinkle, … Read more
A Southern Baptist Church in Allendale, South Carolina, has posted a job listing for a senior pastor and will accept both male and female candidates. The job listing is posted on the official SBC denominational website. As a reminder, Albert Mohler and Danny Akin both tried to convince us in the Baptist Press only months … Read more
After Social Justice advocates released a letter from Paige Patterson in 2012 thanking God for the election of the SBC’s first black president, the progressive evangelical establishment is now skewering the former denominational leader as a racist. In the letter, Patterson glowingly praised Fred Luter, the first black leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, but … Read more
The Baptist Press is the official news outlet of the Southern Baptist Convention. However, fewer Southern Baptists than ever trust the news service and more and more Southern Baptists are getting their news from alternative outlets that are adversarial to the SBC establishment. The latest news site to shatter the Baptist Press in readership has … Read more
After being accused of “racism” because 19% of the church body voted not to call a back man as pastor – without any evidence of racism whatsoever – church members are speaking out to a Christian news site about their mistreatment and the real reason they voted against the man (and it has nothing to … Read more
