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Ed Stetzer Ignores the Voice of Black Christians

Ed Stetzer, the former vice-president of Lifeway, a professor at Wheaton College, director of the Billy Graham School of Social Justice Evangelism, and the interim pastor at Bible Moody Church, launched a Twitter-attack today against those who insist that there has been a demonstrable mission drift away from the Gospel recently, and toward the Social … Read more

What Other People Have Written About Beth Moore

On May 3rd, I published a piece entitled “A Letter Back to Beth Moore from Seth Dunn.”  This piece was published in response to a letter Beth Moore had written earlier that day about her struggles as a female Bible teacher and conference speaker in a male-dominated field.  She found no sympathy with me.  My … Read more

Resolution to Leave Southern Baptist Convention

This was the resolution, passed unanimously, by the Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana. And with it, we remind ourselves of Spurgeon’s words… “We fear it is hopeless ever to form a society which can keep out men base enough to profess one thing and believe another; but it might be possible to make an … Read more

Dear Ron: A Letter to “Thabiti Anyabwile” About Beth Moore

Dear Ron, First off, I’m not going to call you “Thabiti Anyabwile” and it’s not just because that eats my spellchecker alive.  Your name is Ron Burns.  You are not from Africa, you are from North Carolina.  You’re not a Muslim.  You’re a Baptist preacher.  Listen, I’d sooner call Ron Simmons “Farooq” than call you … Read more

A Letter Back to Beth Moore from Seth Dunn

Dear Beth,  Today you wrote a letter to your brothers in Christ.  Allow me to respond.  Be silent.  You are not a good Bible teacher.  You preach and write about yourself all the time as is if you were a character in the Biblical story.  You’re not.  You are a character in the farcical and cruel story of the … Read more

Beth Moore Says Fighting Donald Trump is A Fight for the Faith

Beth Moore, who is a wildly popular female Bible teacher heavily promoted in evangelical circles and aligned with the Southern Baptist Convention’s Lifeway Christian Resources, has steadily been opposing President Donald Trump since his presidential primary. She is not on record ever having opposed President Barack Obama. Moore, who claims to hear audibly from God … Read more

Ed Stetzer Attacks National Rifle Association (NRA)

Ed Stetzer is the former Lifeway Vice President who was warned by Justin Peters that they were selling a Heaven Tourism book whose author had recanted it, and chose to continue profiting from the book anyway. When the story of Alex Malarkey’s Open Letter to Lifeway (his now-famous repudiation of the book written about him … Read more

Nine Less-than-Stellar Moments in the SBC in 2017

The Modern Day Downgrade is rapidly growing in the SBC, and getting worse from year to year. Here are nine of the worst moments in the SBC last year. SBC blog touts lawsuits against SBC entities. It’s one thing for someone who believes they have been wronged to sue some SBC entity. After all, Southern Baptist … Read more

What Happens to White when Brown Hits the Fan? Editor’s Note by JD

  Before reading the article, it is worth familiarizing yourselves with these articles which were the catalyst for the discussions below: Michael Brown has been WHITE-washed? What Michael Brown is hiding from his audience (Part 1): Attacking Christian authors; contends for NAR gospel What Michael Brown is hiding from his audience (Part 2): Damning 2010 audio proving … Read more

A James White Throwback: Dissection of a Downgrade

[Editor’s Note: We are republishing this article and ask people to consider James White and Elephant Room 3 while reading it. It was originally published in the Reformation Montana (print) journal several years ago] “We have said, with deep grief that we should have had to say it, that many ministers have departed from the … Read more

Pastor Exposes Southern Baptist Deep State; Ed Stetzer Loses It

SBC Today, of which we are not ordinarily fond of because they are on the other side of the soteriological aisle and because their nomenclature of “traditional” is hardly astute, published an article entitled, “Is This the Evangelical Deep State”? Drawing parallels to the “Deep State” – an assortment of entrenched bureaucrats without ties to … Read more