Thanks to Jared Moore for talking about the Harry Potter Bible Study, which will air tomorrow. I told him that I’d link to his new book, “Ten Sacred Cows in Christianity that Need to Be Tipped.” Although I don’t necessarily recommend this book (having only skimmed it), I want you to feel free to read … Read more
Virginia Governor Ralph Northam issued an executive order, effective Wednesday, that criminalizes having church services for more than 10 people, with the crime being punishable by a $2,500 fine, a year in jail, or both. Up to this point, Northam was most infamously known for his blackface scandal and for saying if a child was … Read more
Southern Baptist leaders most responsible for the liberal drift in the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) – chiefly Albert Mohler and Danny Akin, presidents of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary respectively – claim there is no liberal drift in the denomination. Meanwhile, both seminaries have sold out to the leftist ideologies of … Read more
JD Greear, the woefully immature “frat boy” president of the Southern Baptist Convention, took to social media yesterday to brag about receiving a “worst Christian of the year” trophy in the mail, which was sent to him in acknowledgment of receiving the award by Pulpit & Pen. At the time the end-of-the-year award was given, … Read more
Christianity Today called for the U.S. Senate to affirm the impeachment of the U.S. House against President Donald J. Trump. As you soak that in, we’ll remind you that it’s already been reported by this publication (and others) that Christianity Today is a Soros front organization. The post, previously mentioned in an earlier article today … Read more
[Capstone Report] Pastor James Pittman of New Hope Community Church of Palatine, Illinois announced on YouTube his intention to leave the Southern Baptist Convention over the leadership of J.D. Greear on issues of LGBTQ rights. Pittman originally from New Orleans, studied at Howard University (Biology) and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (M.Div.). You can learn more … Read more
The ominous “Credentials Committee” was the brainchild of the liberalized Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), which has proven itself hostile to conservative reporters and faithful Southern Baptists who oppose their progressive agenda. With the ostensible task of sniffing out “racist” churches and those that cover-up abuse, the committee also has a mandate to root … Read more
A United States government intelligence analyst and counter-terrorism expert has issued a warning about Pulpit & Pen and what he calls the so-called “Evangelical Dark Web.” The analyst has evaluated the influence of our “insurgency” and then issued bullet-points for how to best resist our influence. Brian Auten is a counter-terrorism expert, a “supervisory intelligence analyst … Read more
Pulpit & Pen, praise be to God, is making a difference in the world of theology and worldviews, and has grown beyond our wildest imaginations. We push up against (or exceed) a million readers every single month. Our U.S. Alexa rank is—as of this afternoon—10,808. By the way, you can add the Alexa chrome extension … Read more
Consider this a public service announcement to news outlets and blogs who should know about something before they opine on it; Founders Ministries and the majority of Social Justice opponents are not “Neo-Calvinists.” Stop saying that. Religion News Service (RNS), a progressive news outlet, referred to Founders Ministries as “Neo-Calvinists” in a hit-piece yesterday. That … Read more
According to web rank, Pulpit & Pen has more readers than the Religion News Service, the Baptist Press, Charisma News, and other major Christian News publications. However, we don’t have the support of large corporations or denominations because we are independent Christian news. The Religion News Foundation – in partnership with RNS – for example, … Read more
Dave Miller, an ERLC Council Member and publisher of a blog for pastors entitled SBC Voices, said in social media today that there is a growing consensus in the SBC that discernment bloggers are a big threat to the denomination. “Discernment” is a gift of the Holy Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:10) given for the building … Read more
Tom Buck. Nice guy. I wish him well. Fine gentleman. I wish him many years and a happy life. Bla bla bla. You get it. The last thing I want to do is correct Tom Buck (again) on something, but I’m going to keep saying this until I’m blue in the face; stop glad-handing, back-patting, … Read more
Joe Carter, a contributor at both The Gospel Coalition (TGC) and the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC), yesterday blamed the tragic San Diego synagogue shooting on kinism (a philosophy we’ll describe below). Likewise, Carter claimed that kinism is to blame for the term Cultural Marxism, and argues that anyone using the term is complicit … Read more
By Cody Libolt AD Robles likes to joke about a two-step dance move when someone is trying to pull the wool over your eyes. Lately people have been trying to pull a similar two-step trick: There’s no way he would have said that! Okay, he did say that, but it’s not really all that bad… Come … Read more
