John Carpenter

John B. Carpenter, Ph.D., is pastor of Covenant Reformed Baptist Church, in Danville, VA. and the author of Seven Pillars of a Biblical Church (Wipf and Stock, 2022) and the Covenant Caswell substack.

Culture

“Sophistry and Evangelical Academics for Harris”

George Eldon Ladd was likely one of the best evangelical theologians of the twentieth century and yet he was devastated by a bad review. When Norman Perrin, a University of Chicago – thus elite – professor wrote a scathing review of Ladd’s magnum opus, Ladd was so wrecked he fell into alcoholism. Ladd wanted “a place […]

John Carpenter

Church

The Demise of Integrity as a Sign of Decline

If there’s going to be a moral revolution against the demise of integrity, it will start with a spiritual reformation in the hearts of God’s people.

John Carpenter

Culture

Bathsheba Wasn’t Raped and Why It Matters

Why this odd impulse to impugn David as a rapist? It’s not as though anyone defends David’s actions in 2 Samuel 11. Everyone starts by granting that David was guilty of both adultery and murder. Why is there a need to add rape to David’s rap sheet?

John Carpenter