Published Monday, July 14, 2025 | | SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. | | | BOB LINN SHALLOW PULPITS ARE DESTROYING AMERICA'S INSTITUTIONS | | The lack of theological muster of the American pulpit has grown an uneducated and malnourished church. It is a church void of the discernment required to build the budding generation of citizens. Biblical discernment is needed to build an ascendant and robust society worthy being called the apex and the grandeur of Western Civilization.
Last week, under a mountain of pressure, Baylor’s “shepherds” chose to return the money earmarked for the Baylor's "School of Social Work." It is a department created for the purpose of linking Baylor’s version of Christianity with the extremities of the political and cultural left and the left's endorsement of sexual perversion known as LGBTQIA+.
A proper response would be to replace Baylor’s leadership and remove Baylor’s “School of Social Work.” Baylor established the school in order to enable twenty-first century’s version of an age-old perversion to find a place to fit into the church without repentance from sin.
Dr. Piper wrote about it this week in his Washington Times article below. | | BAYLOR DOUBLES DOWN ON INCLUSION Last week, Baylor University proudly announced the receipt of a $640,000 grant from the Baugh Foundation to pursue "LGBTQ inclusivity" on its campus.
This week, Baylor's President, Dr. Linda A. Livingstone, said she was rescinding the grant. Here is the letter (in part) sent to the Baylor Family as well as the media: | | Dear Baylor Family, I want to provide an important update regarding a recent matter involving a grant awarded to the Center for Church and Community Impact within the [Baylor] School of Social Work. This grant supported … academic research aimed at exploring inclusion and belonging in the church, with a particular focus on LGBTQIA+ individuals in congregational settings. [Our Dean] and principal investigator…have voluntarily offered to rescind their acceptance of this grant… and return all associated funds to the granting foundation… I support this decision and agree that this is the appropriate course of action and in the best interests of Baylor University. We remain committed to providing a loving and caring community for all – including our LGBTQIA+ students ... | | Please be assured that Baylor's institutional beliefs and policies remain unchanged. Our commitment to our Christian mission and our historic Baptist identity continues to guide our approach to academics, student life, and spiritual formation. We affirm the biblical understanding of human sexuality as a gift from God, expressed through purity in singleness and fidelity in marriage between a man and a woman. We recognize that this situation has caused concern and confusion for many within the Baylor Family and among our broader community of churches, partner organizations, and supporters. This has been a learning opportunity for many involved in this situation, and we aim to work alongside our college and school leaders, faculty, and research community, particularly during these challenging times for higher education. Baylor remains deeply committed to its unique role as a Christian research university — one that encourages rigorous inquiry and thoughtful exploration of complex issues. We will continue to support our faculty and researchers in pursuing meaningful scholarship while ensuring that such work aligns with our institutional processes. I hope this communication provides clarity into what has been a difficult week for many within the Baylor Family. Thank you for your prayers and continued support for Baylor University. Sincerely, Linda A. Livingstone, Ph.D. President | | WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS LETTER? WELL, FRANKLY, ALMOST EVERYTHING. In her communique, Dr. Livingstone betrays that she obviously doesn't understand her university’s error. Or even worse, she does understand and doesn't care. FIRST, SHE PERSISTS IN HYPHENATING HUMAN IDENTITY BY HUMAN INCLINATIONS.
As former lesbian activist Rosaria Butterfield has said repeatedly, this is a "19th-century categorical error" perpetuated by the ontological lie of Freudian psychoanalysis.
Even Gore Vidal understood this when he said, "There is no more such a thing as a homosexual person than there is a heterosexual person. These are behavioral adjectives." Even Michel Foucault understood this when he said, "We are creating a hermaphrodism; we are creating a false species."
And Martin Luther King Jr., likewise, understood this when he famously declared that all people should be defined by the content of their character and nothing else. | | SECOND, BY DOING THE ABOVE, DR LIVINGSTONE INSULTS ALL OF US BY DEFINING HUMAN BEINGS BY THEIR GUT RATHER THAN BY GOD.
Her worldview is one that balkanizes us by ranking and grouping us by our hungers, drives, and desires. The bottom line is that she's saying if you feel like it, that's just who you are, and you can do nothing about it, regardless of how aberrant your feelings may be. Can't we all agree that something is deeply wrong with this? In Dr. Livingstone's broken and dark world, what's next for Baylor University?
Will she soon announce the "inclusion” of the incestuous Baylor community? Or maybe the minor-attracted Baylor community?
Or what about the porn-addicted Baylor community, the vindictive Baylor community, or perhaps the Baylor community that defines itself as racists, antisemites, misogynists, or even dogs and cats? | | The bottom line is that Dr. Livingstone's letter exposes Baylor University's woke underbelly. She is returning the grant because of the public pressure rightly caused by this paper and others, but she does not repent of her sinful worldview one iota. While couching her letter in what she says is a "biblical understanding of human sexuality," she doubles down on her unbiblical ideology of what it means to be human. Whatever happened to St. Paul's admonition that "if you are in Christ, you are a new creation! Behold, the old is gone; the new has come?" Whatever happened to his call to die to self rather than worship it? If Baylor University were truly the "Christian University" Dr. Livingstone claims it is, it would be teaching that you must be born again, not that you are "born that way."
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Thus ends Dr. Piper's Washington Times article. Allow me to point out that those who seek a partnership with those encased in a sinful life style are the dangerous false shepherds we spoke of in last week's article. They must be removed from leadership! | The only hope of America's return to cultural sanity is in the growing up of our pulpits and a return to mature theological preaching which trains God's people in the wisdom and admonition of Christ. | | Before you go about your day be sure to sign up for Dr. Piper's free podcast here. It takes only a moment of time.
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Dr. Joseph Arminio, longtime observer of Washington's political insiders, has issued an alert regarding the "Genius" bill which this week goes to the U.S. House.
It passed the U.S. Senate (S.1582) on June 17, 2025, with a bipartisan vote of 68-30. Rand Paul and Josh Hawley were the only two Senate Republicans to vote "Nay."
While Trump is for it, political conservatives recognize it as the tyranny-oriented-camel's nose under the tent. Those on the far right see it as the long game of leftist politics to one day control the buying and selling of goods and services through the acceptance of government-issued electronic currency. | | Dr. Arminio is a scholar able to see the trajectory of legislation in the wrong hands and writes about high-level politics and economics.
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For some time, I have needed a sabbatical to catch up on my reading, to reflect, and to think more seriously about my writing. For that reason, we are taking an extended summer break and will resume September 17 at the Oklahoma History Center.
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