[Jonathan Aigner | Patheos] Contemporary megachurch-style worship is a self-worshiping, self-referential, nearly auto-erotic pursuit. Many times, I’ve chosen to use the word “masturbatory” to describe it, and it’s made a lot of people unhappy. Likewise, I will be heartily rebuked by many for what I write here. I will be told I’m being gross, prurient, … Read more
[Patheos, Roger E. Olson] What Has Happened to the Evangelical Christianity of Not Long Ago? The other day I was having a conversation with a man about my age who entered the Christian ministry as a very young man—while still in college. My father did the same. He began pastoring a church at age 19! … Read more
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 4, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – Sen. Patty Murray, D-WA, blocked the unanimous passage of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act today, a bill which would have required doctors to provide medical care to babies born alive during failed abortions. This was a unanimous consent vote, a mechanism under which the bill passes the U.S. Senate if no … Read more
[Reformation Charlotte] Kyle James Howard is a close friend and ally of Russell Moore, the ERLC, and the Southern Baptist Convention. Howard has been pushing an anti-white racialist agenda since he made his debut on social media. Howard has dedicated his life to perpetuating a false narrative about racism in the Church and in America. … Read more
[American Thinker] With astonishing speed, the evangelical world has been invaded by social justice ideology. In a recent podcast, the current president of the Southern Baptist Convention (until now a theologically conservative body), J.D. Greear, highlighted “white privilege” as a serious moral issue for Christians. Likewise, David Platt, former president of the SBC’s International Mission Board, browbeat … Read more
Editor’s Note: Julie Roys has made an announcement on her Facebook Wall that pro-life organizers have set a date, February 23, 2019, for a national day of mourning for unborn babies murdered in America since the passage of Roe vs Wade. For those who are unfamiliar with Julie Roys, I’ve included her biography from her … Read more
David Barton is the unofficial historian of American right-wing Christianity. Through his organization, WallBuilders, he regularly hosts groups of pastors in Washington, DC for briefings with Christian congressman and “spiritual heritage tours.” He also travels across the country speaking at local churches about the Christian heritage of the United States. He is the author of numerous … Read more
January 31,2019 [Wiiliam Davis, The Daily Caller] The Democratic Virginia delegate who has recently come under fire for sponsoring a bill in the Virginia House of Delegates that would allow the termination of a pregnancy up to 40 weeks old, is also the chief patron of a bill that would protect the lives of “fall … Read more
[Captain Cassidy] A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I wrote about the way that bad ideas enter the canon of Christian beliefs. The bad idea I examined back then was love the sinner, hate the sin. As terrible as that idea is, and as demonstrably impossible as it is for Christians to put it into … Read more
Among other outlets, Yahoo News has reported that President Donald Trump gave his endorsement to recent state-level initiatives to teach “Bible Literacy” classes in public schools. Trump’s statement has generated a fair amount of controversy, not only among secularists, but Christians as well. While many secularists are openly hostile to the biblical message, some Christians … Read more
[Medium] Amid backlash, evangelical leaders are finally acknowledging sexual abuse — but not a high-profile preacher allegedly facilitating it. Why? One afternoon in late 2014, a friend told me that he’d been blocked on Twitter by The Gospel Coalition. The sheer power and influence that The Gospel Coalition (TGC) holds is mind-boggling. The group is … Read more
[The Cripplegate] Pope Francis made the news for naming Mary “the influencer of God.” He tweeted: This should not come as a shock. The Roman Catholic Church has long held the belief that Mary was, and is, someone who can change God’s mind. Their view of Mary is clearly expressed in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. … Read more
January 28, 2019 [LifeSiteNews] A press release that is to be published tomorrow in several different languages announces more disclosures about the content of the book In the Closet of the Vatican which itself aims at revealing that there now exists in the Vatican “one of the largest homosexual communities in the world” (according to the French … Read more
Last month, Facebook banned me for 30 days for calling Bruce Jenner a man. You can read about it in this article, Facebook Bans Pulpit & Pen Publisher for Calling Bruce Jenner a Man, which received more than 29 thousand Facebook shares of people who didn’t think that stating facts was particularly hateful. Within a … Read more
Daily Herald Editor’s Note: WLS radio personality Mancow Muller of Wilmette has attended Harvest Bible Chapel since 2014 and been friends since 2016 with founding pastor James MacDonald, a nationally known church leader and preacher. Muller has been outspoken in recent weeks about the controversy at the suburban network of megachurches that led to MacDonald … Read more
