About a week ago we began a contest called The Dumbest Defense Award. Knowing that Patterson’s sycophants would soon come out of the woodwork to defend his Muslim enrollment at SWBTS, I predicted various defenses such as… 1. Don’t you love Muslims? 2. What’s wrong with teaching unbelievers how to do Christian ministry? 3. Who … Read more
The Pulpit & Pen Program is running a new contest called The Dumbest Defense Award. As Patterson’s sycophants come out of the woodwork to defend his Muslim enrollment at SWBTS with excuses such as… 1. Don’t you love Muslims? 2. What’s wrong with teaching unbelievers how to do Christian ministry? 3. Who says seminary is … Read more
I continue to receive correspondence from Georgia Baptists saying that Johnny Hunt, Jim Law and others are telling concerned Baptists that “the public doesn’t know everything about the Ergun Caner situation” and we should, therefore, trust our leaders. They insist that there is evidence exonerating Caner they just aren’t permitted to share with us. This … Read more
Following on the heels of a public revelation that Johnny Hunt has invited Ergun Caner to speak to his church (which itself is following on the heels of an email released in which Hunt acknowledges Caner’s career of lies), we now have confirmation that a prominent staff member at First Baptist Church in Woodstock, Georgia … Read more
Peter Lumpkins – never one to be accused of utilizing fair weights and measures (Leviticus 19:36) – has chosen to endorse Jared Moore to become the next President of the Southern Baptist Convention. Well, not really. But kind of. Lumpkins, Brewton-Parker’s Vice President of Communications, is literally paid by Ergun Caner to conceal the truth … Read more
New documents related to Ergun Caner’s lawsuit against Jonathan Autry offer several revelations concerning Caner’s years of lies and deceit. Remember, Caner’s lawsuit against Smathers was thrown out of court several weeks ago with prejudice. Caner’s new employer, Brewton-Parker College, has yet to respond to the embarrassingly predictable dismissal through their Vice President of Communication, … Read more
I was listening to a recent sermon of a Southern Baptist evangelist, Bill Britt, who was encouraging the students at Truett-McConnell College to “look alive” while he was preaching. In order to spur them on, he told an anecdote that I immediately recognized. He purported, “I was in a revival one time and a guy … Read more
As you can see, Pulpit & Pen contributor, Gene Clyatt, is in Phoenix with this nefarious character. Why? Well…let’s just say that it has something to do with the upcoming The Caner Project documentary. Information from a whole swath of sources, including audio and video or Ergun Caner’s [heretofore unrepentant] lies concerning his life story … Read more
This is an article released and written by Kelly Boggs of the Baptist Message. I am aware that for a long, long time, Louisiana Baptists have been begging Kelly Boggs to run an article highlighting these very issue. Boggs issued this article only after the secular press, in particular the Town Talk, ran (much less … Read more
Monday – Program Summary: In today’s ‘doublesode,’ JD first discusses former VP of the SBC and well-known blogger Dave Miller’s assertion that JD is raising an ‘army’ and must repent for committing the ‘sins of the flesh’ listed in Galatians 5. JD asks the question whose side Miller would be on during Spurgeon’s #DOWNGRADE Controversy. … Read more
* This photo is from the Arkansas Baptist State Convention annual meeting in 2002, taken by ABSC employee Ricky Lee. I was asked to speak because of my work in church planting. In Synergism Tomorrow’s post comparing me to Fred Phelps (yes, you read that right), someone who I don’t know except for social media, … Read more
Monday – Program Summary: In this episode, JD briefly discusses Tim Rogers’ continued use of alleged child molestation to discredit those calling for Caner’s repentance, then moves on to exegete Acts 2:38 to address baptismal regeneration and why we are baptized BECAUSE we’ve been forgiven and not in order to be forgiven. For the Daily … Read more
How could Brewton-Parker trustees justify hiring a man who has been caught on a multitude of audio and video recordings lying about himself (and has been aggressively unrepentant) to run their Christian college? That was the question for many of us who were concerned about integrity and credibility, as the lost world sees a Southern … Read more
How could Brewton-Parker trustees justify hiring a man who has been caught on a multitude of audio and video recordings lying about himself (and has been aggressively unrepentant) to run their Christian college? That was the question for many of us who were concerned about integrity and credibility, as the lost world sees a Southern … Read more
Tim Yarbrough, editor of the Arkansas Baptist News, posted this article at the newspaper’s website. It was soon taken down, he told me, because certain comments were in violation of their policy. Not having seen the comments, I asked several Arkansas Baptist pastors the nature of those comments and they spoke of attacks toward Yarbrough … Read more
