At Pulpit & Pen, we are regularly throwing shade at gimmicks and stunts. Shameless gimmickry, we feel, cheapens the Gospel. On top of that, we don’t believe that youth and adults need object lessons to get the points across, but are perfectly capable of understanding the Gospel and God’s Word if the Holy Spirit is … Read more
Yesterday, believers around the world gathered in local assemblies to celebrate the resurrection of the God-Man, Jesus Christ, from the dead. The Christian celebration originates from the belief that the Second Person of a Triune God – who had previously and eternally been spirit – took on the flesh of humanity by making himself an … Read more
Today is Easter. As a celebration of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, it is a uniquely Christian holiday. This morning, in a horrific turn of events, three Sri Lankan churches were bombed during their Easter worship services. In Twitter condemnations of these vicious and deviously-timed attacks, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and … Read more
Albert Mohler is a Social Justice Warrior, make no mistake about it. His snapping at Phil Johnson at the ill-advised ShepCon Q&A included the caveat that who he “platforms” speaks for his positions. If that’s the case, then Albert Mohler is one of the most radical Social Justice Warriors in evangelicalism, doing a 180-degree turn … Read more
Transgender students at North Pole High School in Alaska have a lot of choice, the choice of using the boy’s bathroom, the girl’s bathroom or a gender neutral bathroom. Female students who feel threatened by male students do not. It all began on the morning of April 4, after a group of boys hatched a … Read more
Well technically, he didn’t go back to being male. He always was male. But James Shupe – who decided to go by the name Jamie – was the first person in the United States to get the government to recognize him as “non-binary,” meaning “not one or the other.” Now, James wants to go back … Read more
Everyone needs a mentor. For John Calvin, it was William Farel. And Farel hated idols. He really, really hated them. Farel, who went by the first name Guillaume (William) was from the city of Gap in southeastern France. The violent Roman Catholic Inquisition eliminated the sect of the Waldensians in that region, and the vacuum … Read more
[Shane Trejo | Big League Politics] The Iowan students protested after LGBT bathroom mandates allowed predators and perverts to violate their privacy rights. Female students are pushing back after transgender bathroom mandates have turned restrooms into LGBT-approved sanctuaries for predators at their high school. Students walked out of Abraham Lincoln High School in Council Bluffs, Iowa to … Read more
Fame sometimes takes a toll on people’s mental health, and perhaps no one in American evangelicalism is as famous as Beth Moore. Almost daily, the women’s Bible study leader turned Social Justice advocate and charismatic prophetess gets more and more bizarre in her social media posts which, unlike her Bible study material, is not put … Read more
While the Internet is flush with conspiracy theories about how the Notre Dame fire got started, Christians – even of the Reformed Protestant variety – are publicly mourning the loss of the historically significant structure. We should probably be reminded that the last time Providence befell cathedral it was at the hands of Calvinists. A … Read more
You can read more about Kyle J. Howard here, if you aren’t already familiar with him. For lack of a more concise summary, Howard is a man of white and black ancestry who was born and raised with the silver spoon of privilege in an affluent Atlanta neighborhood, and his parents were both attorneys. Howard … Read more
A massive fire has broken out in the historical Catholic Cathedral, Notre Dame. Witnesses say the fire has engulfed it the entire structure fearing a complete of destruction of the Cathedral. Notre Dame de Paris means in French “Our Lady of Paris. More commonly called Notre Dame. Built during the Medieval period (beginning in 1163 … Read more
Pulpit & Pen reported last week that the LDS Church Says LGBT Mormons Are No Longer ‘Apostate.’ In a major change that came a week ago, the LDS headquarters announced that God again had changed his mind on an important social issue. Although the Mormons had banned people in ‘gay marriages’ as “apostates,” they reversed … Read more
Democrat Phil Murphy won the Governorship of New Jersey in November 2017. Those who voted for him did so because of his campaign promise to reform the New Jersey healthcare system. On Friday, Gov. Murphy didn’t disappoint his supporters and proponents of ‘self-inflicted’ death; he signed into law the Medical Aid in Dying bill. Becoming … Read more
The topic of abortion seems always to be at the forefront of American political and religious discourse. Each year, millions of dollars and man-hours are spent lobbying both for and against the so called “right” for a woman to choose to terminate her pregnancy along with the life within her womb. At the forefront of … Read more
