What Reading Through 904 of Joel Osteen’s Tweets Can Teach Us About Jesus

Instead, the gospel of Joel Osteen, the “good news” that he brings is that “God loves you and wants to save you from a life of mediocrity and small dreams

Protected: Jemar Tisby And His Pro-Choice Conference Speakers

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An open letter to Oklahoma Baptists regarding slavery and protecting human life

Dear Oklahoma Baptists, The Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma’s stance against slavery and for protecting human life is long-held and well-known. We want to make sure you hear directly from us what our position is regarding recent efforts to fight slavery and protect life. The BGCO is categorically opposed to slavery, and it is our…

Andrew Rappaport v. the Abolitionists

Andrew Rappaport recently decided to release a handful of short, 6 minute Rapp Reports podcasts condemning AHA practices and ideology, as well as offering up his own thoughts on the problems with those pesky abolitionists (including one especially bizarre episode which I may get to next week). For this reason, I did want to address one…

The Christian Art Of Adopting Frozen Babies: An Interview With Toby Harmon

In October 2015,  I posted this picture to my Facebook wall with this message : This is my friend Toby Harmon ‘s baby, which they called Elias and who was born just two weeks ago. Their baby was conceived and fertilized several YEARS ago and then abandoned by his parents. My friend found him dehumanized…

I Love You Even If You Don’t Love AHA

There are people who love the Lord and seek to love their neighbor well who do not support AHA ideology and the work of abolitionism. They might be doing their own thing, or they disagree with certain aspects of it. They might wish to distance themselves from the reputation that abolitionists have accrued (mostly unfairly,…

AHA Are Not Nomads And To Suggest Otherwise Is Weird: A Response To P&P

Jeff Maples recently dropped an article at the Pulpit and Pen, a blog run by  JD Hall which frequently features attacks against AHA. The post, like many others, is a classic case of asserting something false so often that they finally end up believing it. For this reason, I thought it important to respond to…

New Blog: A Brief History

I’ve been writing for decades now. Several years ago I started a blog, The Paperthin Hymn, which became somewhat well read- gathering well over a million views over the years. I retired it to begin writing for the Pulpit and Pen, after being invited by JD. At the time it was a small, obscure website…

When A Husband Loves An Evil, Faithless, Fornicating Wife

Rather than returning these acts in kind, rather than exchanging blow for blow and hurt for hurt, Christ will take his bride- his angry, bitter, squabbling, resentful, filthy, shrieking, and kicking bride back into his arms and he will wash her with the water of his precious word, cleansing her so that he might present her to himself pure and spotless.

The Myth of the Martyrdom of the Apostles

oncerning the apostolic work of Bartholomew we have only unreliable and contradictory statements. The earliest accounts have been lost. The first that have been preserved originated between 450 and 550 in the eastern provinces of the Byzantine Empire with traces of Nestorianism

ReformedCon2016 Speaker “You are Gay/ Theology Is Gay If It Doesn’t Make You Drink”?

2. The comparison and attempt to draw parallels between of “Wine feels like it’s burning like fire when it’s going down my throat ” and “God is a consuming fire” is just strange. I’m reasonably certain he’s one of the first people to ever make that connection

JD Hall And His Arch-Troll Nemesis: An Alternate Timeline Response

Friends and supporters of the ministry: One of the consequences of doing polemics and discernment is that you inevitably upset people to the extent that they act out in overtly hostile ways. In this particular instance, an individual created an anonymous account that was a disturbing parody and satire of my ministry and my person. Over a two-year period…