There is a certain Intelligentsia-class of evangelical leadership in America, the type and kind that wax eloquent their postulations not from local church houses, but from ivory towers of academia and twentieth-floor suites of 501(c)3’s in the Beltway. Our evangelical overlord-types quote Flannery O’Connor more than Jesus, drink Starbucks with their pinkies stuck out and refer … Read more
“Alexander the coppersmith suffered great harm as a result of our Lord’s gospel diminishing his business. I urge you brother to aid him by making offerings and gestures of good will for the peace of Ephesus and the cooperation between the pagan deity of Artemis and the church of Christ there. Surely there is no … Read more
Russell Moore’s antipathy for the President of the United States is not unknown, and is in fact a matter of public concern among conservative Christians. The former Democratic staffer, once serving a congressman who voted in solidarity with Nancy Pelosi 82% of the time, has saved nearly all of his criticism for conservatives who don’t … Read more
Southern Baptists have been giving the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) approximately four million dollars a year. Along with promoting a radical animal rights agenda, commissioning research fellows who don’t think abortion is murder, and marginalizing SBC influence among the executive branch of government, ERLC president, Russell Moore advocated building a Mosque in a … Read more
If you go to an evangelical church in America, you’ve probably heard Bethel’s music. This means that your church is paying royalties to Bethel Church and their artists which directly supports their ministries. Songs like This is Amazing Grace by Phil Wickham and Love Came Down by Bizzy B are popular songs you’d probably recognize … Read more
January 2012, he was crowned king by Rabbi Ralph Messer, lifted up on a throne, and paraded around the stage in front of his congregation at New Birth Missionary Baptist Church. Bishop Eddie Long was a steadfast proponent of Word of Faith theology, including the Prosperity Gospel–a perverted distortion of the gospel message that teaches Christ died so believers … Read more
Pulpit & Pen has been reporting for months about the socially progressive agenda of Southern Baptist Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC) fellow Karen Swallow Prior. With the publishing of Every Living Thing: How Pope Francis, Evangelicals, and Other Christian Leaders Are Inspiring All of Us to Care for Animals, Southern Baptists have a whole new … Read more
Is World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) getting into the evangelism business? In summer 2015, WWE purchased the worldwide rights for the soon-to-be-released Christian movie The Resurrection of Gavin Stone. The feel-good film is a project of Harvest Bible Chapel’s Vertical Church Films and features WWE hall of famer Shawn Michaels, who is an evangelical Christian. A … Read more
Southern Baptists divert approximately four million dollars from missions every year to the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. Since the inauguration of ERLC president Russell Moore, that four million dollars has given Southern Baptists the return of a strong advocacy for a Mosque to be built in New Jersey, a softening tone on homosexuality, a partnership with … Read more
“The job of the organizer is to maneuver and bait the establishment so that it will publicly attack him as a ‘dangerous enemy.’” —Saul Alinsky Yesterday, Texas pastor Dwight McKissic published an article entitled “If Russell Moore is fired, ‘Unto Us’ A Trump Baptist Convention Is Born” at Southern Baptist interest blog SBC Voices. McKissic is not … Read more
It appears that Penguin Books, the publisher for Clayton Jennings’ Jesus Above Everything, has pulled it from upcoming production. No longer taking pre-orders, the publisher now says the book is “delayed by publisher,” as demonstrated below. This follows on the heels of the news that evangelical heavy-hitter, Tony Nolan – who was once enlisted to help Jennings on … Read more
Southern Baptists are speaking out against Russell Moore. Weird. I remember when that totally wasn’t in vogue, and we were the only ones doing it and people were calling us crazy. Consider this piece, which calls our assertion that Moore is a social progressive “one of the dumber things you will have read in 2014” (Moore … Read more
On December 19th, 2016, despite the best efforts of Russell Moore, the Electoral College of the United States affirmed Donald J. Trump as the nation’s 45th president. Moore, the President of the Ethics and Religious Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (ERLC), ardently opposed the candidacy of Trump on moral grounds in the months leading … Read more
Pulpit & Pen Resources Steven Furtick: I am the sword formed against death and Hell Steven Furtick Sees Himself as the Son of God in the Bible Steven Furtick is Pretty Sure God Sinned Steven Furtick Gladhands T.D. Jakes Church – Gives 35K dollars Steven Furtick Has Faith in ‘Doubt’ Steven Furtick on the Wall … Read more
Religious Marketing in a Land of Opportunity Before British journalist Christopher Hitchens would ever become known as one of the “Four Horseman”[1] of the New Atheism movement, he was an award-winning, widely-read, globe-trotting journalist. In a 1997 interview with The Progressive, the well-traveled Hitchens was asked why he chose to make his home in the … Read more
