Editor’s Note: Below is an open letter from a concerned elderly Southern Baptist laywoman. She has written to me several times regarding her growing concerns with the direction of the Southern Baptist Convention, and the Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission, in particular. The following is a letter that she sent to Daniel Patterson, the Chief … 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
Rachel Held Evans, who left evangelicalism in April of 2014 to join the gay-friendly Episcopalian Church because evangelicals believe too much of the Bible and stuff, has been appointed as a member of the President’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Other appointees are a female and pro-gay United Church of Christ impastor and … Read more
Evangelical pastor of Harvest Church, Greg Laurie, is the latest in a string of evangelicals who have declared the devout, professing Roman Catholic, Marco Rubio, a genuine believer. The trend started when the SBC Company Man™, Dave Miller, posted a video of Marco Rubio giving his conversion to Catholicism testimony at a political rally and declared … Read more
Modern Evangelicals are happily embracing a deceptive evil, and letting it creep into their churches. The evil is a counterfeit gospel, a counterfeit Christianity. The evil is the Roman Catholic Church, and it’s creeping in unawares, especially to young and impressionable minds, through worship music. Particularly, a Catholic singer named Matt Maher has become strikingly … Read more
Or who is killing the SBC? It’s Dave Miller. No, not that Dave Miller because he’s awesome. This Dave Miller. The Company Man™. That’s who is killing the SBC. Well, not really The Company Man™ per se. To us at Pulpit & Pen, Miller is just an archetype. He’s an exemplar. He’s the quintessence, the embodiment, the epitome … Read more
The ERLC, headed by Communitarian Russell Moore, is one of the most despised entities of the Southern Baptist Convention because of it’s stance on social issues. It’s known to take unbiblical positions such as his push for illegal immigration, racial justice (white privilege), and “creation care” environmentalism, which, to Moore and the ERLC, take precedence over … Read more
From Al Mohler to Russell Moore and beyond, many in the evangelical camp (in fact, most) gladly partner with the lost for important social good, including pro-life causes and religious liberty? Is this biblical? Is this good? Please listen to this short clip. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I24B16F9w1s
“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
In a long stream of capitulation lately, especially in the Southern Baptist Convention, evangelicals have been salivating over the Roman Catholic presidential candidate, Marco Rubio. The ooze-fest, spearheaded by Russell Moore of the SBC’s Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission (ERLC), has led many into confusion over what Christianity is and is not. Moore has stated, despite … Read more
From the we should’ve written about this already department… Christianity Today reached out to “evangelical leaders” to ask what the pro-life community can learn from the #BlackLivesMatter, and vice versa. One can only wonder if the Downgrade will go so far in evangelicalism that we’ll soon see similar articles about what the pro-life movement can … Read more
Denny Burk, professor at Boyce College (SBC), posted an article today stating his indignant antipathy toward Liberty University’s hosting of Donald Trump at their convocation service. Burk thought it was perfectly appropriate that Liberty host pagans and cultists to “contribute to robust Christian thinking and conviction,” but not if it’s implied the speaker is a fellow … Read more
Today was the long-awaited day that Donald Trump spoke at the Liberty University convocation. Trump, the Southern Baptist Convention’s most hated man, is a favorite among many other evangelicals. In fact, so much so that he’s been likened to a golden calf by Ethics and Religious Liberties Commission president, Russell Moore. Moore tweeted the following … Read more
In a story Pulpit & Pen broke last week, Marco Rubio enlisted several prominent evangelicals to serve on Roman Catholic presidential candidate, Marco Rubio’s religious advisory board. These evangelicals are the well-known theologian Wayne Grudem, megachurch pastor at Saddleback, Rick Warren, and professor of history at Baylor University, Thomas Kidd. Grudem, Professor of Theology and Biblical … Read more
John Piper, who dug-in yesterday with another anti-gun tweet, also surprised many in evangelicalism with a tweet in seeming support of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter is an international organization advocating against violence done toward blacks by non-blacks (they’ve been virtually silent on black-on-black violence, which constitues 93% of homicides in the black community). … Read more
