[Melissa Dave’s | The Guardian] Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sexual abuse, has been taken in custody following a sentencing hearing in which his lawyer described one of Pell’s offences as a “plain vanilla sexual penetration case where the child is not actively participating”. After the hearing, with Pell’s … Read more
[Andrew Dyer | The San Diego Union-Tribune] Men between the ages of 18 and 25 must still register with Selective Service, even though a federal judge just ruled that the all-male draft system into the armed services is unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge Gray H. Miller decided that because women are now eligible to serve in … Read more
“Every person is to be in subjection to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those which exist are established by God.” Romans 13:1 This post is the thirtieth in a series that addresses a list of “40 Harmful Effects of Christianity” that originated on the American Atheists Facebook page and has since made … Read more
To James White, “yellow journalism” is any kind of reporting he doesn’t like or is personally critical of him. Terms are fluid to James White, but gender should not be. For whatever reason, White has felt the need to defend Sam Allberry, the (celibate) gay Anglican priest who has encouraged gay people to have physical … Read more
The news on this stunning development in the Sooner State has already been reported by Pulpit & Pen in a post by Seth Dunn on Sunday. Oklahoma is ground zero for a growing philosophical movement of abolition, the belief that abortion should be outlawed once and for all in one fell swoop rather than incrementally. … Read more
It sure as heck is a Republican and Democrat issue. That was my first thought when I saw a screenshot of rump-shaking frat-boy SBC president, JD Greear, saying this on Twitter. With all the serious theological depth of Ronnie Floyd and all the wokeness of Russell Moore, the leftist SBC president is not a useful … Read more
[Meslissa Dave’s | The Guardian] Cardinal George Pell, once the third most powerful man in the Vatican and Australia’s most senior Catholic, has been found guilty of child sexual abuse after a trial in Melbourne. A jury delivered the unanimous verdict on 11 December in Melbourne’s county court, but the result was subject to a suppression order … Read more
[Micaiah Bilger | LifeNews] A 27-year-old woman likely never will be able to have children as a result of damage to her uterus from 17 abortions. Dr. Zhao Qin, head of gynecology at Shiyan Maternity and Child Health Care Hospital in China, told The Sun that she warned the young woman, “Xiao Ju,” about being infertile before … Read more
Jussie Smollett will forever be known as the celebrity who put a noose around his own neck, paid his friends to lightly beat him up, and falsely claimed that MAGA hat-wearing Cretans gave him a racist and homophobic working-over. Fewer will remember the name of ‘Charlie’ Rogers, a lesbian from Lincoln, Nebraska, who carved a … Read more
[Micaiah Bilger | LifeNews] The abortion giant Planned Parenthood quickly slammed President Donald Trump on Friday for cutting its taxpayer funding through the Title X program. Planned Parenthood, which does more than 330,000 abortions a year and calls abortion its “core mission,” would lose about $60 million under the new Trump administration rule. That is in addition … Read more
There are more than 12 million United Methodists worldwide and more than 4 thousand are meeting in Saint Louis from Saturday to Monday. Of these, more than 800 are voting delegates who will ultimately decide where the United Methodist Church stands on the topic of homosexuality. Many might have assumed that the United Methodist Church … Read more
JD Greear, the current SBC President, is proposing changes for the denomination that seek to hold sex predators accountable. That is a good thing. What’s a bad thing is that, if done without regard to ecclesiology, the changes could fundamentally change an important distinctive of the Baptist faith. When rump-shaking, white-guilting, charismatic New Calvinist pastor, … Read more
From time to time at Pulpit & Pen, we employ a term of our own invention: website orthodox. This term is used to describe a Christian public figure whose confession of faith (as published on his website) meets the standard of Christian orthodoxy but whose behavior does not reflect biblical fidelity. Andy Stanley’s picture is printed next … Read more
[Reformation Charlotte] Southern Baptists are leading the way in the cultural Marxist “woke” movement. The movement is a mass structured attack on white people using Marxist ideology right out of the Frankfurt School’s playbook. Ideologies such as “white privilege” and inherent guilt of racism based solely on the color of one’s skin are rampant in … Read more
A Romanist discernment site publicized photographs of two Catholic priests engaged in amorous embrace, nuzzling and kissing. In response to releasing the photographs of the (clearly gay) priests, the overseeing bishop threatened to sue the website for their reporting and issued a cease-and-desist letter. The website, Church Militant, is standing by their reporting. The priests … Read more
