The Reverend Lawrence Ware is officially renouncing his ordination in the Southern Baptist Convention. This is according to his scathing OP-ED piece entitled “Why I’m Leaving the Southern Baptist Convention” which was published in the New York Times on July 17, 2017. It is apparently lost on the Reverend Ware (and the fact checkers at the world’s … Read more
You may have heard by now that Eugene Peterson, the author, and creator of the popular book, The Message, recently came out in support of homosexual marriage. In an interview with Religion News, he was asked that if he were pastoring today would he perform a same-sex wedding ceremony, he responded “yes.” I wouldn’t have … Read more
If you take a look around a typical Southern Baptist church you will notice that almost everyone filling the pews is white. You will also notice that a disproportionate number of those white people are part of the fifty and older crowd. Members of the younger generation, it seems, just don’t attend church like their … Read more
[Editor’s note: Critical Race Theory (CRT) has become one of the predominant schools of thought behind the push for racial reconciliation in the Evangelical Church. CRT emerged as an offshoot of Critical Theory, a neo-Marxist philosophy that has its roots in the Frankfurt School and its methods are drawn from Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud. … Read more
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
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
As the owner and president of Pulpit & Pen, I feel that I need to issue a public apology to the Eastern Orthodox community in regards to my managing editor’s recent words. In a series of posts, Pulpit & Pen editor, RC, took it upon himself to essentially anathematize the Bible Answer Man, Hank Hanegraaff, … Read more
An evangelical’s favorite Roman Catholic probably depends upon their political orientation. The Marxists have Pope Francis. Conservatives have our underdog mascot on the right, Matt Walsh. The latter has recently authored a book, The Unholy Trinity, and it’s every bit as colorful as it is insightful. The Unholy Trinity: Blocking the Left’s Assault on Life, … Read more
[Editor’s Note: Polemics Ministries United is indebted to the work of Capitol Hill Baptist Church and its pastor, Mark Dever. Dever, an expert church polity, has helped to restore soundness to ecclesiology in a wide evangelical circle, and Nine Marks isn’t to be repudiated on this issue alone. However, we have become increasingly concerned that … Read more
Karen Swallow Prior, who was appointed as an ERLC research fellow by its president, Russell Moore, recently castigated Vice President Mike Pence for following the “Billy Graham Rule.” Writing for the left-wing news site, Vox, founded by Ezra Klein (Klein is a regular guest on the Rachel Maddow Show and Hard Ball with Chris Matthews), … Read more
Why do cats purr? Why do we wait until night to ‘call it day’? Why is Donald Trump’s skin orange? Why does Village Church ask an anti-complementarian, self-pronounced feminist English professor and animal rights activist (who says that abortion isn’t murder) questions relating to Christian ethics and firearm ownership? These are questions without good answers, so far as I know. … Read more
…Has it come to this, that monkery is to be revived in a professedly Protestant Church?…For the love you bear to your Redeemer, be duped no longer, and by your own hatred of monkery and priestcraft, come ye out from among them, be ye separate, and touch not the unclean thing –Charles Spurgeon Evangelical Christians have recently … Read more
Today, Jack Graham will speak at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary, and a group of students plan a Baptist-style soft protest to demonstrate how entitled they think they are to his church’s money. Graham is pastor of Prestonwood Baptist Church, a Dallas-area megachurch that recently voted to escrow funds ordinarily designated to the Cooperative Program (CP), which … Read more
Did you know that the Oscars should matter to Christians? So says Samuel James and the cultural commentators over at The Gospel Coalition. Now, you may not realize it because you’re not savvy enough at impacting the culture for the sake of human flourishing (or however they talk over at the Intelligentsia water cooler), but … Read more
“Based on his hipster beard, Jeff Durbin could be your local barista.” Lulz. That was the first line of the video from the New York Post. Spot-on. Dirty, rotten hipsters. In fact, it was the title “Extreme Hipster Wants to Execute Women Who Have an Abortion” that got my attention in the first place. While … Read more
