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Snoop Dogg Wins Gospel Music Award

Pulpit & Pen told you in 2017 that ‘Snoop Dogg’ would be producing a Gospel album, and then reported to you last year that Mr. Dogg’s album was topping the ‘Christian and Gospel’ section on iTunes. Now, the pot-smoking, rhyme-slinging rapper has won the BET Gospel Music Award. Fo real, yo. On Sunday, Snoop Dogg … Read more

Lauren Daigle Rebrands Image as Non-Christian Artist

Lauren Daigle writhes seductively with her midriff exposed in her Christian music videos, while singing about Jesus in tones that make you wonder if he’s her boyfriend. The Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) industry and its fans love it, as they look for a genre as close to godlessness as possible while still occasionally alluding to … Read more

Johnny Hunt

Johnny Hunt Endorses Jesus Calling, Dismantles Legacy Johnny Hunt Drinks Your Milkshake Puttin’ on the Ritz for Johnny Hunt Cruise with a Cause: Eddie Long, John Hagee, Ergun Caner, LeCrae, and Johnny Hunt Milk the Gospel Like a Cow of Bashaan Beyond Johnny-Dome: Taking a Right Turn off of the Johnny Hunt Highway Full Video … Read more

Give Me Moore, Moore, and Moore – ERLC Conference 2018

When I first saw the tweet from Russell Moore that he had invited Beth Moore to the 2018 Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission (ERLC) conference, I, along with my colleagues, thought it was a joke. Seriously, we thought he was just trying to be funny. But then I thought, “he invited Andy Stanley to his … Read more

Five Things At SWBTS More Offensive Than This Photo

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

Book Review: The New Calvinists; Changing the Gospel

Published in 2014, clearly I am late to the party, but I wanted to give a brief review of this book because I found it a valuable and helpful primer on the problems of the so-called New Calvinism. Written by Dr. E.S. Williams, a medical physician and layman in the church of Charles Spurgeon – … Read more

The Irrelevant Christine Caine … A Dingo Ate My Legacy?

“ … in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.  2 Peter 2:2 In Revelation 2:20, Christ chided the church of Thyatira in no uncertain terms.  “I have this against you, that you tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls … Read more

Johnny Hunt (Apparently) Sounds Off on Clayton Jennings

Former Southern Baptist Convention President Johnny Hunt and his friend Tony Nolan are consistently featured speakers at the annual Winter Xtreme Conference in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.   This December, both men were scheduled to speak alongside Nolan’s (former) mentee Clayton Jennings.  This did not happen.  As frequent readers of the Pulpit and Pen are by now aware, Clayton … Read more