[The Baptist Blogger] The following email just went out to the Southwestern Community. Dear Friends of Southwestern, Thank you for your continued prayers and support of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (SWBTS). Because of the grace and purposes of God, the prayers and support of so many like you, and the hard work of our seminary … Read more
[Center for Cultural Leadership] Cultural Marxism, a designation Leftist dvocates despise and naïve evangelical proponents reject, has always exploited Orwellian Newspeak to identify itself lest its origins with Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels be exposed. It began long ago after Marxism’s failure to achieve worldwide revolution following WWI. Marxism began to morph under the ingenuity … Read more
This Saturday, revelers from across the western world will gather with their Irish friends, clad in green, to celebrate the “Patron Saint” of Ireland. Wherever the Irish diaspora can be found, you’ll be able to smell the wafting odor of corned beef, Guinness beer and hear the sound of raucous laughter or perhaps an Irish … Read more
This evening, I came across a riveting article at SBC Today about the management of Southern Baptist Cooperative Program funds in the state of Michigan. The article was written by Norman Donald Fistler, who grew up in Michigan and formerly served as a pastor in that state. Regrettably, the type of “grace alone, faith alone” witness … Read more
It’s bizarre, but it’s probably not the end of the world. It’s weird, nonetheless. Southern Seminary, which has the reputation of being a stalwart proponent of the inerrancy of Scripture and a bastion of Calvinism, has a peculiar feature on their online admissions application form. It asks “birth gender.” One would think that the … Read more
Capt. Sonny Hernandez is an Air Force Reserve chaplain with the 445th Airlift Wing at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Hernandez also founded Reforming America Ministries, and Hernandez is an outspoken proponent of Biblical Christianity. As it turns out, some people think those two things don’t mix. According to Stars and Stripes, the military news … Read more
Facutly at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary posed for the above photo, and Twitter has had a collective heart attack. Audible gasps could be heard around the world, as these faculty members apparently didn’t see the outrage as a predictable inevitability, and it was unwisely posted without an, ahem, trigger warning. In all seriousness, I’m sure … Read more
“He who withholds his rod hates his son, But he who loves him disciplines him diligently.” Proverbs 13:24 When a dad takes his child to the woodshed, it’s an act of love. To spare the rod is to spoil the child. Correction, which is often unpleasant, is an act of love which is done by … Read more
This Friday, revelers from across the western world will gather with their Irish friends, clad in green, to celebrate the “Patron Saint” of Ireland. Wherever the Irish diaspora can be found, you’ll be able to smell the wafting odor of corned beef, Guinness beer and hear the sound of raucous laughter or perhaps an Irish … Read more
This Friday, revelers from across the western world will gather with their Irish friends, clad in green, to celebrate the “Patron Saint” of Ireland. Wherever the Irish diaspora can be found, you’ll be able to smell the wafting odor of corned beef, Guinness beer and hear the sound of raucous laughter or perhaps an Irish … 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
I want to start by stating how tragic the recent shooting in Dallas was, as well as others who have lost their lives during encounters with police officers. It is not my intent to try or convict any person on either side of the aisle without due process, and I believe it to be highly … Read more
As we’ve reported ad nauseam, the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) is being utilized as a Political Action Committee (PAC) for Roman Catholic presidential contender, Marco Rubio. ERLC president and former Democratic staffer, Russell Moore, shares a number of ideological similarities with Rubio, not the least of which is their mutual … Read more
Last week, the Louisiana Baptist Message, an official publication of the Louisiana Baptist State Convention, posted an editorial titled “Does the ERLC Represent the SBC?” With a growing laundry list of concerns about the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission (ERLC), it’s no wonder that more and more people are waking up to the damage that’s being … Read more
Editor’s Note: Below is an open letter from a concerned elderly Southern Baptist laywoman. She has written to me several times regarding her growing concerns with the direction of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission, in particular. The following is a letter that she sent to Daniel Patterson, the Chief … Read more
