This is an open letter to Southern Baptists who continue to support the Cooperative Program and fund its grievous errors. That caveat, in italics, is important. I wrote this as an email to a Southern Baptist pastor and I’m making it available as an open letter to all Southern Baptists who spit upon the Bible’s … Read more
Tom Buck is a friend of mine. We haven’t always been so friendly, but we seem to have made some kind of amends. So then, let me come along and mess up all that peace and harmony by using him as an example of something that is quite annoying to many of us who aspire … Read more
The Southern Baptist Convention is the nation’s largest (but quickly shrinking) Protestant denomination and is comprised of seven independent entities and six seminaries that have little accountability to the local churches who fund them. Often times, critics and whistle-blowers are forced to speak out because there is a lack of capacity in the SBC trustee … Read more
[Steven Ertelt, Micaiah Bilger |LifeSiteNews] Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed a pro-life bill Thursday to ban brutal dismemberment abortions that tear unborn babies limb from limb while their hearts still are beating. State House Bill 1211 passed the Indiana Senate in a 38-10 vote and the state House passed the bill by a strong majority in February. Today … Read more
The fact that you are raped, does not give you the right to murder someone. In spite of his long list of personal moral failures, Trump seems to get this basic moral principle. Many in the “pro-life” movement – who make exceptions for rape and incest – need to have this kind of moral clarity. … Read more
Tim Keller’s Redeemer Network has established four large churches in NYC: East, West, Uptown and Lincoln Square. The East Side campus recently signed on with Temple Israel to move their worship services from their longtime Hunter College location (25 years) to the New York City synagogue effective March 31, 2019. The move was outlined on Redeemer’s website as follows: We are excited about the … Read more
Referring to your niche social concern as “justice” was popularized by Gustavo Guttierez, a Marxist and Jesuit Priest in his formation of Liberation Theology in 1971. The concept was uniquely Americanized about that same time by James Cone in his formulation of Black Liberation Theology in 1970. Since then, leftists have used Christianity to push … Read more
In December, P&P reported that Southwest Baptist University, a Southern Baptist and Missouri Baptist Convention-affiliated school located in Bolivar, Missouri, had fired a professor for objecting to heresy. Clint Bass had been asked by officials in the Missouri Baptist Convention to research and report the theological leanings of fellow faculty because there were many reports … 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
What’s worse than a gaggle of Chatty Cathy pecking hens cackling out their ill-informed opinions and old wives’ fables? Add heresy on top of it, and you have a new show on the Trinity Broadcasting Network that is fashioned after The View, expect this program has an altogether different monstrous regiment of women. Better Together … Read more
Last night I published an article reporting that Summit Church in North Carolina, which is pastored by Southen Baptist Convention President JD Greear, was charging admission to it’s Good Friday service. In less than 24 hours and during a period of typically low weekend readership, that article has already been shared over 700 times. Reaction … Read more
Today is Good Friday, the anniversary of Jesus’ death on the cross. Given the significance of this day, as well as the general interest that surrounds Easter Weekend, many churches choose to hold special “Good Friday” evening worship services. One such church is Summit Church, a multi-campus organization based in North Carolina. Summit is led … Read more
Protecting the unborn child has been a long hard fight in Ohio. In December 2018, for the second time, former Republican Ohio Governor John Kasich vetoed legislation that would have banned abortion when the heart beat is detected. At the time, Pulpit and Pen reported that Kasich stated in writing: As governor, I have worked … Read more
[San Francisco, CA] Revoice, a pro-LGBTQ conference hosted by a Presbyterian Church of America (PCA) congregation, promised to teach us how to celebrate and redeem ‘Queer Culture.’ Is this part of it? The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence are hosting a celebration for Easter that includes cross-dressing nuns, an Eastern bonnet contest, and a fleshly bare-all … Read more
One Southern Baptist seminary is arguing that white people adopt minority children out of racist motivations. Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary is as culturally liberal as any American Baptist or Cooperative Baptist Fellowship church or institution. Danny Akin, who has never been a strong doctrinal leader, might be the definition of a useful idot, which we … Read more
