Outside of Southern Baptist Seminaries, the editorial pages of The Washington Post & New York Times, and denominational political circles, Russell Moore isn’t that well-known. Moore is a the President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC), the denomination’s least useful entity and best kept open secret. Moore’s … Read more
(First, a disclaimer: Okay, I know Pulpit & Pen is, according to our triune tagline, a site of Theology, Polemics, and Discernment. So this article about a verse out of context is itself somewhat out of context for the site. Just presume there’s an unwritten fourth category and tag this article under it … “Please … Read more
** Editors Note: This article is by Sonny Hernandez, and is being reposted here with permission. The Great Commission is the manifesto that commissions Christians to habitually practice evangelism. Everything in a Christian’s life is corollary to this solemn responsibility. The church must be the citadel that recapitulates the necessity of evangelism, and Christians must … Read more
This week, a news outlet that faithfully reports on Baptist news (obviously not the Baptist Press) – the Town Talk – reported that Joe Aguillard has been locked out of his office, escorted from campus, fired from his position, and had his title of President Emeritus removed. Rondall Reynoso filled us in on the details, … Read more
**Editor’s note – This post was written by Rondall Reynoso and appeared first at Faith on View. It has been a long time since I wrote about Louisiana College. It has been just over a year and a half. I am writing today because there are developments that essentially put an end to a long and … Read more
C.S. Lewis is a loved writer by much of modern Christianity. While almost no one will deny he is a brilliant writer, many people have brought up concerns about his theology. Mike Abendroth of No Compromise Radio said, “let’s just avoid C.S. Lewis, and when someone is quoting C.S. Lewis to you all the time, … Read more
“Though they know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them. Romans 1:32 Perhaps you haven’t been paying attention, but if you will turn on the news or read your favorite news website, then flip open your Bible (you do read … Read more
malignant [mah-lig´nant] tending to become progressively worse and to result in death;[source] MALIGNANT OBSESSION WITH ROMAN CATHOLICISM David Robertson, the author of Magnificent Obsession: Why Jesus is Great, has a malignant obsession with Roman Catholicism that will become progressively worse and result in certain eternal death unless he repents. David Robertson is a pope-promoting wolf in Reformed … Read more
In 2014, David Yonggi Cho, founder of South Korea’s Yoido Full Gospel Church, was officially sentenced to three years in prison (but never served) for embezzling $12 million in church funds. The international Superapostle, according to David Cartledge and endorsed by C. Peter Wagner[1], is now suspected of embezzling $67 million dollars. The Prosperity Gospel preacher, … Read more
Just when you think there might be a glimmer of hope in the SBC, just when we are finally nearing the end of Ronnie Floyd’s doctrinally-undiscerning domain of its presidency, the Baptist Press reports the news that multi-site, mega-church, Reformed charismatic pastor, J.D. Greear, will be seeking the helm of the convention. The announcement (Baptist … 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
“I have prayed for the next George Washington. I believe I have found him (in Ted Cruz).” Glenn Beck The Iowa caucuses are nigh. On Monday February 1st, voters in Iowa will gather together to decide what Republican and Democratic candidates to put forth for the 2016 presidential election. The final poll before Monday’s caucuses … Read more
The Baptist Message, the newspaper of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, has published an editorial from Will Hall that echoes much of the concern we’ve been bringing to you for about two years now. Unless things have changed at the Baptist Message from when Kelly Boggs used to run the newspaper, nothing is printed without the … Read more
“My soul,wait in silence for God only, For my hope is from Him.” Psalm 62:5 Earlier this month, the Pulpit & Pen explored the dominionist ties of Texas Senator and Presidential candidate Ted Cruz and his father Rafael. Those ties were confirmed yesterday as the Cruz campaign announced that Mr. Cruz had been endorsed by … Read more
Say it were 1937 in Germany and you had the opportunity to vote in an election that pitted a guy who wants to shove all the Jews in Europe into ovens against a guy who runs on a platform that, if the SS wants to shove Jews into ovens, they’ll at least have to do … Read more
