Multiple Baptist sources on Twitter have reported that prominent evangelist Bailey Smith has died. Before embarking on a three decade career as an evangelist, Smith served as the pastor of First Southern Baptist Church of Del City, Oklahoma and the 44th President of the Southern Baptist Convention. His term of service, 1981 to 1982, was … Read more
Much is being made these days in American society and in Evangelicalism over the concept of reparations. Thabiti Anyabwile, an SBC pastor and thought-leader in this area recently tweeted the following: For 10 minutes Christopher Hitchens engages in the false analogy of the restoration of ancient Grecian artifacts on the part of the British Museum. … Read more
In the name of preserving their “religious freedom,” two prominent evangelical groups have adopted rules capitulating on the issue of sodomy in order to not face possible negative consequences in the future. Agreeing not to act on their convictions toward the LGBTQ, the organizations hope to be allowed to still have their convictions quietly. One … Read more
The Gospel is designed to unify. Cultural Marxism is designed to cause division. When Cultural Marxism is propagated in the name of the Gospel, it gets division rather than unity. Endlessly signaling his Social Justice virtue, Al Mohler commissioned a taskforce at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary to research the slave-holding history of the founders of … Read more
Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr., a stalwart evangelical defender of President Donald Trump, says in a new interview that it is wrong to base U.S. policy on the teachings of Jesus Christ. “I almost laugh out loud when I hear Democrats saying things like, ‘Jesus said suffer the little children to come unto me’ … Read more
James White, the “Scholar in Residence” at Apologia Church and host of The Dividing Line podcast, had some tough words for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention. He posted the following on his public Facebook page. He wrote… I received an email soliciting donations for the Southern Baptist ERLC (The … Read more
Fred Butler was called by Brannon Howse the “Grace to You Mailroom Guy.” Butler is more than that. He’s the unofficial resident blogger at Grace to You, who for some reason heads up GTY’s Senior Citizen volunteer division (or something like that) instead of doing what seems to make far more sense, which is writing … Read more
Usually when we cover someone butchering the Scriptural narrative to push Marxist ideology it’s Timothy Keller. This time around it’s another New York liberal, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Ocasio-Cortez, the congresswoman-elect for New York’s congressional district has apparently picked up on cues from Christian liberals like Keller, Russell Moore, and the other leftist evangelicals who insist that … Read more
This post was written by Thomas Littleton and has been reposted here with permission. The article was originally posted at Thirty Pieces of Silver, “9MARKS DEVER AND FABIAN SOCIALIST TRAINED EDITOR: HOW TO DITCH YOUR PRO-LIFE VOTING HABIT.” Mark Dever and 9MARKS Jonathan Leeman discuss politics and Leeman’s Fabian Socialist Education at London School of … Read more
The actual figure of 1,394 times may not exactly be accurate. It’s probably more than that. From rebuking “alt-right racism” to formally apologizing – on multiple occasions – for slavery via messenger resolutions to electing the first black SBC president to the first black SBC Pastor’s Conference president, the nation’s largest denomination is busy signaling … Read more
How often do polemics books hit the market? It’s not that often, especially from academia. Most modern scholarship, much in contrast to the work of the Patristic Fathers which was almost entirely polemical, exists to promote theological ideas rather than expose false ones. The bristling at polemical or irenic theology is in part responsible for … Read more
Jesuit priests, since the early 1600s, have been seeking to undermine English common-law and Protestantism in the New World. Sent into the world to undermine Protestant nations in the name of Catholicism, the Jesuit order became suppressed in various nations like Portugal, France, Malta, Spain, Austria and Hungary in 1763 as these nations determined that … Read more
The Bible has some very harsh things to say about those who put children in harm’s way. For those who are attempting to illegally enter the United States sovereign territory, in disrespect and contempt for the rule of law, any harm that comes to their children is the consequence of their own sin and … Read more
Amidst denominational decline, Lifeway Christian Resources has helped to fudge the numbers of membership, baptism and active churches in the SBC. Even in spite of their dishonest reporting and shameful spin, the denomination continues to shrink. As the nation’s largest Protestant denomination becomes increasingly liberal and progressive, the actual numbers show that their leftward trajectory … Read more
Pulpit & Pen has been at the forefront of observing and reporting on the intentional take-over of American evangelicalism for years. P&P has broken story after story, report after report, that has been a necessary tool in today’s battle for the American church. The book “Ungodly Mess: How Marxists Stole Christianity in America” will continue … Read more
