Pulpit & Pen was the first to sound the alarm bell about the gay-affirming research fellow at the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention, Karen Swallow Prior (KSP). In our post, Gay Affirming Research Fellow at ERLC, Shocking Liberalism, we explained that Swallow Prior exhibited behavior, associations, and speech that … Read more
Juan Carlos Cruz is a sex-abuse victim of the Roman Catholic church. He is the chief whistleblower in the Chilean Romanist sex abuse scandal and spent days with Pope Francis last month at the Vatican. During the three days with the Pontiff, Cruz discussed his sexual orientation (the Chilean man is a homosexual) and explained … Read more
If you believe what the bible says about Jesus, the world will hate you but if you start preaching a Jesus that is not the Jesus of the bible the world will love you. –Paul Washer “Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he … Read more
To be very clear, the creation of a database of minority-status identity groups is the move of certain Social Justice Warriors within the SBC who have been enamored with the recent promotion of Rauschenbuschism by Southern Baptist entities, but the database creation is not an official move of any SBC entity in particular. Rather, the … Read more
My name is Stephanie. I am a Baptist from Georgia and I have broken free from Beth Moore. I know that I was indeed born in sin but it is hard for me to remember ever being lost. I grew up in church and was saved at a young age. I spent my teen years … Read more
When Jesus had received the sour wine, He said, “It is finished!” and He bowed His head and gave up His spirit. –John 19:30 It is finished! These are powerful words from our Savior on the cross that were meant for us. There at the cross, Jesus was our sacrificial lamb, once and for all. … Read more
Ed Stetzer, the former vice-president of Lifeway, a professor at Wheaton College, director of the Billy Graham School of Social Justice Evangelism, and the interim pastor at Bible Moody Church, launched a Twitter-attack today against those who insist that there has been a demonstrable mission drift away from the Gospel recently, and toward the Social … Read more
The State of Israel has had to defend its border in recent days, as the radical terrorist group, Hamas, has tried to find weaknesses in the Israeli defensive lines and infiltrate the nation to kill Jews. Centered in the region known as Gaza, which was occupied by Egypt until 1967 and by Israel from 1967 … Read more
Is Paul Washer partnering with Hillsong? No. BACKGROUND Listen, I’ve been doing discernment work for years. Pulpit & Pen has been doing its thing for eight years. We have become the infamous “Rolex of Polemics Blogs.” Heck, we brought back the term, polemics, into vogue; before we pulled the term out of the dustbin of … Read more
Make no mistake about it. The Reformed Resurgence – the return of Calvinism back to prominence in western Christianity in the last few decades – has been co-opted and commandeered by leftists who have determined to use the movement to accomplish their progressive agenda. What the Communist Party once succeeded in doing in the American … Read more
Let no one deceive you by any means; for that day will not come unless the falling away comes first and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition. –II Thessalonians 2:3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have … Read more
This was the resolution, passed unanimously, by the Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana. And with it, we remind ourselves of Spurgeon’s words… “We fear it is hopeless ever to form a society which can keep out men base enough to profess one thing and believe another; but it might be possible to make an … Read more
What is the Trump Trap you may ask? Well, essentially it’s a set-up. I hate to sound so conspiratorial. But a simple analysis of current events reveals the greater strategy at play, including the further watering down of biblical doctrine and truth. The election of Trump reflected the desperation of a nation continuously on the … Read more
Dear Ron, First off, I’m not going to call you “Thabiti Anyabwile” and it’s not just because that eats my spellchecker alive. Your name is Ron Burns. You are not from Africa, you are from North Carolina. You’re not a Muslim. You’re a Baptist preacher. Listen, I’d sooner call Ron Simmons “Farooq” than call you … Read more
Dear Beth, Today you wrote a letter to your brothers in Christ. Allow me to respond. Be silent. You are not a good Bible teacher. You preach and write about yourself all the time as is if you were a character in the Biblical story. You’re not. You are a character in the farcical and cruel story of the … Read more
