Under the guise of supporting abuse victims, the Democrat-controlled Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) hosted a conference over the weekend with the main underlying purpose of advocating for an end to male-leadership in the denomination. Aside from Beth Moore attacking complementarianism (the belief that men and women are … Read more
“Earnest Attention is Requested for this Paper…We are going downhill at breakneck speed.” – Spurgeon, The Downgrade Controversy I Who would have thought that a Democratic congressional staffer, if given control of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, would try to liberalize the SBC? Just kidding. Everyone should have seen that coming. The man is … Read more
In what will be seen as a watershed moment in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) – the day that the liberals reclaimed that which they lost in the Conservative Resurgence – the crowd applauded wildly as Beth Moore attacked complementarianism in her sermon at a propagandic virtue-signaling conference hosted by the Ethics and Religious Liberty … Read more
Yesterday, Pulpit & Pen published an article entitled “Church Leaves SBC Over Beth Moore, JD Greear, and Doctrinal Errors” in which we reported that the First Baptist Church of Victoria, Missouri had decided to leave the Southern Baptist Convention after over fifty years of membership. In a letter addressed to local, state, and national SBC … Read more
We are proud of each and every church that leaves the Southern Baptist Convention. Pulpit & Pen received a copy of this letter, sent to the Missouri Baptist Convention, the Jefferson Baptist Association, and the Southern Baptist Convention from the First Baptist Church of Victoria, Missouri. The church, FBC Victoria, has been a member of … Read more
Lifeway Christian Resources is hosting a New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) healing conference at its Southern Baptist property in North Carolina. Lifeway is an entity owned by the Southern Baptist Convention that has a long history of prostituting itself for financial profit, and selling its soul to the highest financial bidder. This latest conference hosted by … Read more
Social Justice. Racial Justice. Climate Justice. Immigration Justice. Gender Justice. The Popularity Gospel has replaced the real Gospel in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination, and its own president doesn’t seem to understand categories of grace and justice. Neither does JD Greear seem to grasp Marxist codewords when he uses them. Fighting a bevy of windmills, … Read more
An SBC Professor: has declared that evangelicalism is ‘closely connected’ to white supremacy and that evangelical movement benefited from racism. The president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary said Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality result in Identity Politics and that identity politics is antithetical to the Gospel and devastating for the church. However, one of … Read more
An up-and-coming Southern Baptist leader in the Missouri Baptist Convention sat down to do a video with two leaders in the International House of Prayer (IHOP) cult in Kansas City, Missouri. The three men, including the SBC pastor, discussed why fake miracles and ‘exaggerations’ in the charismatic movement are “worth it.” Malachi O’Brien is the … Read more
Using the explicit terminology of Critical Race Theory and Identity Politics, the website belonging to JD Greear just posted a daily devotional explaining why Christians should be giving up their “privilege.” JD Greear is the ‘woke’ President of the Southern Baptist Convention, and you can read more about him here. Greear has recently been tweeting … Read more
A few weeks ago, I published an article entitled “Sexual Abuse in an SBC Leader’s Home? I Need More Information.” In that article, I included a redacted letter which Pulpit & Pen received from an anonymous source claiming that sexual abuse had been taking place in a top SBC leader’s home for over a year … Read more
SBC Voices, a poorly-read SBC pastor’s blog published a hit-piece against Tom Ascol of Founders’ Ministries yesterday. Don’t get me wrong; I’m all for hit-pieces, as some ideas and idealogues need (metaphorically) hit. However, I feel that if I don’t speak up about the vapidity, insipidness, and mental emptiness of that “blog” post I would … Read more
This post is designed to provide an extensive but not comprehensive list of articles from Pulpit & Pen documenting SBC leaders pushing so-called “Social Justice” upon its membership. It is designed to be simple and straight-forward. The Problem: Social Justice is a term invented by South American Roman Catholic Priests and the churches affiliated with … Read more
Yesterday, Founder’s Ministries released the trailer for an upcoming documentary, “By What Standard?” about the dangers of social justice and its impact in the Southern Baptist Convention. Names like Al Mohler, Danny Akin, Jason Allen, and Adam Greenway (presidents of the top four Southern Baptist seminaries) are all included as interviewed participants. Though the trailer … Read more
JD Greear recently RT’d the political views of a leftist lesbian writer. The lesbian aspires to teach men how to preach, finds “Gospel themes” in pornography, and promotes Democratic talking points as though they were Gospel-centered ideas. Greear, the “frat boy president” of the SBC, seems to suffer from a catastrophic lack of discernment. Pulpit … Read more
