[Editor’s Note: Polemics Ministries United is indebted to the work of Capitol Hill Baptist Church and its pastor, Mark Dever. Dever, an expert church polity, has helped to restore soundness to ecclesiology in a wide evangelical circle, and Nine Marks isn’t to be repudiated on this issue alone. However, we have become increasingly concerned that … Read more
Karen Swallow Prior, who was appointed as an ERLC research fellow by its president, Russell Moore, recently castigated Vice President Mike Pence for following the “Billy Graham Rule.” Writing for the left-wing news site, Vox, founded by Ezra Klein (Klein is a regular guest on the Rachel Maddow Show and Hard Ball with Chris Matthews), … Read more
Why do cats purr? Why do we wait until night to ‘call it day’? Why is Donald Trump’s skin orange? Why does Village Church ask an anti-complementarian, self-pronounced feminist English professor and animal rights activist (who says that abortion isn’t murder) questions relating to Christian ethics and firearm ownership? These are questions without good answers, so far as I know. … Read more
Check the batteries in your heresy detectors! Sound the Berean warning bells! Let the discernment warning tocsins be sounded! Signal all to take Caution! Caution! Caution! There’s a new Rob Bell book soon to be released. I thought I’d warn you that, soon enough, your social media threads may be fuller than a tick … Read more
Today, Jack Graham will speak at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and a group of students plan a Baptist-style soft protest to demonstrate how entitled they think they are to his church’s money. Graham is pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church, a Dallas-area megachurch that recently voted to escrow funds ordinarily designated to the Cooperative Program (CP), which … Read more
Did you know that the Oscars should matter to Christians? So says Samuel James and the cultural commentators over at The Gospel Coalition. Now, you may not realize it because you’re not savvy enough at impacting the culture for the sake of human flourishing (or however they talk over at the Intelligentsia water cooler), but … Read more
“Based on his hipster beard, Jeff Durbin could be your local barista.” Lulz. That was the first line of the video from the New York Post. Spot-on. Dirty, rotten hipsters. In fact, it was the title “Extreme Hipster Wants to Execute Women Who Have an Abortion” that got my attention in the first place. While … Read more
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary has invited a Greek Orthodox scholar to debate the “Christian” side of a Christian-Atheist debate early next month. Texas Baptists have invited a advocate of purgatory to come speak at a conference against Calvinism later this year. And now, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary entertained a Greek Orthodox lecturer who encouraged students … Read more
Matt Chandler’s Village Church and the American Left: Giving Leftist-Islamic Groups a Foothold in the Church The conservative movement, and more importantly the conservative evangelical church, is being undermined and compromised by well-known evangelical leaders. Men, such as Matt Chandler, are accommodating and participating in interfaith dialogues with groups who share ties to radical Islam. It … Read more
Imagine the scandal. A former Democratic staffer who has been called “an open border zealot” by the press, who moonlights for a George Soros-funded pro-illegal immigration think tank, and who has repeatedly attacked border security as inherently unchristian, signs a brief on behalf of the Southern Baptist Convention to help get a Mosque built in New … Read more
Karen Swallow Prior is known to sympathize with abortionists, defending them in the pages of Christianity Today from the accusations of murder, said abortion is not murder and that calling abortion murder is “unchristlike” (link).* Karen Swallow Prior said that violence towards animals solicits from her a more emotionally visceral response than abortion (link). Karen … Read more
Another day, another report about the problems in the Southern Baptist Convention. According to The Message, the official newspaper of Louisiana Baptists, a story reported on February 16, 2017 that former Southern Baptist Convention President Jack Graham, pastor of the 41,000-member Prestonwood Baptist Church, Plano, Texas, has led his congregation to suspend the church’s support … Read more
As reported by the Baptist and Reflector, the Tennessee Baptist Convention’s state newspaper, David Platt issued an apology related to the International Mission Board’s (IMB) 2016 support of an amicus brief supporting the construction of a New Jersey mosque. (For more on the mosque issue, see HERE.) According to the report, Platt, President of the … Read more
There are two primary engines driving the popularity of Social Justice into the heart of quasi-conservative evangelicalism. Once bulwarks for a solid Biblical worldview and stalwart defenders of the Gospel, both organizations have experienced serious mission drift in recent years. Both organizations have developed a penchant for terminology from the social progressive lexicon, like “racial … Read more
With Russell Moore’s ecumenism in full view (the former Democratic staffer has led interfaith prayers with Sikhs and Muslims at the Becket Fund’s Interfaith gathering), it was no surprise when the social progressive leader of the Southern Baptist’s ERLC supported an amicus brief (put together by the Becket Fund) asking the federal government to force a … Read more
