The “Courageous Conversations Conference” will be held by the World Tabernacle Church in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, this weekend. Speaking along with Moore will be “civil rights leader,” John Perkins of the Perkins Foundation and Noel Castellanos of the Christian Community Development Association. The Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) is – according to its website – … Read more
Osteen made headlines when local Houstonians reported that they were denied refuge at Lakewood Church from Hurricane Harvey. Although it was true that Lakewood had closed off access to its buildings and parking lots, city officials confirm that Osteen’s megachurch did ask them if they should open their facility. And according to Lakewood’s public relations … Read more
Last night, at 10 p.m., a Category 4 hurricane made landfall 30 miles north of Corpus Christi, Texas. The storm, given the name “Hurricane Harvey”, brought with it winds of 130 mph. It was the strongest storm to hit the state of Texas since 1961…and Kenneth and Gloria Copeland did nothing to stop it. As … Read more
The following testimony from JD Hall regarding a recent visit to Jim Bakker’s studio and Morningside Ministries was sent to Pulpit & Pen for publishing. While on a working vacation in Branson, Missouri on August 2 – just prior to my debate on Cessationism and Charismaticism in Cleveland the following weekend – I spent time … Read more
College football season is nearly here and excitement is in the air. Soon Saturdays down south will be filled with cries of joy and adulation that rival those of the next day’s church worship services. For the next four months, Southerners will be watching and talking about all things college football. This fact surely isn’t … Read more
Pulpit & Pen has been an outspoken critic of charismatic mega-organizations such as Bethel, IHOPKC, and Hillsong. The unsound doctrine inherent in such denomination-church hybrids gives way to not only an unfruitful mission but paves the way for a debased leadership who, in many cases, end up in some kind of scandal. Moral depreciation is no stranger … Read more
Following the spectacular implosion of President Nixon’s political career in the Watergate scandal, Warner Brothers released the drama “All The President’s Men.” In a key scene informant Deep Throat tells Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, “Just follow the money.” These words became a popular motto for investigative reporters and activists opposing financial fraud. In the … Read more
The tragic story of little Charlie Gard has captivated the Western world. The 11-month-old boy suffers from a rare genetic disease. Charlie is blind, deaf, and unable to move on his own and is currently on life support in a London hospital. Charlie’s parents are seeking to take their son to the United States, where … Read more
If you take a look around a typical Southern Baptist church you will notice that almost everyone filling the pews is white. You will also notice that a disproportionate number of those white people are part of the fifty and older crowd. Members of the younger generation, it seems, just don’t attend church like their … Read more
Benny Hinn might just be asking himself if “this is his day” … that “day” being the one that finds him federally exposed as the fraud that the Biblically faithful already know him to be. According to a news report coming from the Dallas NBC affiliate, Channel 5, federal authorities have initiated a raid on … Read more
Thom Rainer, President of Lifeway ‘Christian’ Resources, believes so much in the principle of Biblical mentorship that he has offered to indiscriminately mentor people for the low low price of only $249.47 per month. To be fair, that price is for the Platinum Mentorship Program, in which you’ll actually be entitled to having a video … Read more
If, instead of knowing them by their fruits (Matthew 7:15-16), as Christ told us, false teachers were known by colors, it might seem an easier task. Indeed, if false teaching, charlatanry, and heresy were colors, you could say that Phil Pringle & C3 Church’s Presence Conference looks a lot like Walt Disney has vomited a … 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
The North Carolina General Assembly has proposed a bill that, if passed, would essentially halt many forms of free speech in public areas under the guise of “economic terrorism.” According to H.B.249, section b1, a person is guilty of “Economic Terrorism,” a subclass of Terrorism, if “the person willfully and maliciously or with reckless disregard … Read more
While we should be thankful for the plethora of warnings about The Shack that have been published in recent weeks, there is still a cause for concern in Zion. Pastors and concerned laypeople have done an admirable job, by my estimation, of sharing articles on their social media pages, providing a polemical view of both … Read more
