Al Mohler: friends, connections and writings

(quotes from numerous articles/sources with links)

In spite of his public criticism of the Catholic Church, Mohler claims in his official biography to have studied at St. Meinrad School of Theology [10] (a few hours drive from the Seminary of which he is President.)

https://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/bio/mohler.html

http://www.albertmohler.com/about/

Mission Statement

The mission of Saint Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology is the initial and ongoing formation of priests, permanent deacons, and laity to minister together effectively in the service and evangelization of the Roman Catholic Church and the world.

Realizing the Mission

Realizing this mission requires attention to the distinctive identity and formation of priests, permanent deacons, and laity as well as the development of professional skills to assist them in working together for effective ministry and evangelization in the Church and the world.

http://www.saintmeinrad.edu/about-us/

Leadership Council

The ERLC Leadership Council is a collection of SBC pastors and leaders who receive intentional investment from the ERLC and serve as ambassadors for the organization.

http://erlc.com/about/leadership-council

The Southern Baptist Conventions policy arm called The Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission is on the List of U.N. ECOSOC NGO’s with Special Consultative Status

http://undocs.org/E/2016/INF/5

Below are connections between some ERLC Leadership Council members and Al Mohler:

At left, Mohler observes CSU president Jairy Hunter Jr., and East Cooper Baptist Church pastor Buster Brown signing into establishment the “East Cooper Baptist Church Intern Scholarship.” Each student intern will receive a $1,000 scholarship per semester.

https://baptistcourier.com/2007/09/mohler-visits-charleston-southern/

Mary Mohler (founder and director of Seminary Wives Institute and wife of The Southern Baptist Seminary, Al Mohler), with Kristie Anyabwile, wife of Thabiti Anyabwile who is pastor of First Baptist Church in Grand Cayman, with Lauren Chandler, wife of Matt Chandler at The Village Church in Dallas, TX, and Jani Ortlund, wife of Dr. Ray Ortlund, pastor of Immanuel Church in Nashville, TN.

They talked in a panel discussion about expectations and priorities and then in the second hour talked about focus on the family.

http://www.unashamedworkman.org/workmans-toolbox/pastors-wives-panel/

http://www.sbts.edu/women/womens-programs/seminary-wives-institute/

A leader at the Village Church for 12 years, Chandler is entrancing if demanding to hang with. "His intensity is one of the first things you notice," says Albert Mohler, president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. "Just sharing a meal with him—the man's intense. He's confident but he's ready to learn." "I can be overbearing at times," says Chandler, a trait he says he wants to tamp.

And just as Mohler became president of the Southern Baptist Convention's (SBC) flagship seminary at the young age of 33, Chandler has now become the president of the Acts 29 Network. The 16-year-old "gospel-centered" band of churches aims to write the next chapter of the missions described in the Book of Acts' 28 chapters. Seattle pastor Mark Driscoll cofounded the network with late Presbyterian pastor David Nicholas in 1998. In March 2012, during a meeting with board members present, Driscoll tapped Chandler to succeed him, shifting the offices to Dallas. (Driscoll remained on the board for a time, but is no longer listed as a member of Acts 29 leadership.)

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2014/may/matt-chandler-preacher-stung-by-joy.html

Albert Mohler

June 30, 2014 ·

Join John MacArthur, H.B. Charles, Jr. and me for the #ExpositorsSummit on the glory of expository ministry

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10152265373658882&id=336265603881

My friend, Mark Dever, once again permitted me to take part in the 9Marks panel. It was a joy to serve with Albert Mohler and Danny Akin.

Along with being elected to serve as the 2018 Pastors’ Conference president, I was also elected as a new trustee of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, where R. Albert Mohler is President. Glad and grateful to serve!

https://www.hbcharlesjr.com/2017/06/15/my-observations-from-2017-sbc-in-phoenix/

In 1995 Andy Davis began pursuing his Ph.D. at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. While there, he attended Highview Baptist Church (which happens to be the church Al Mohler attends). Andy earned his Ph.D. in Church History in 1998, finishing in just 3-1/2 years. His dissertation was on Calvin's Eschatology. Andy stated during the 9Marks interview that he learned a lot from John Calvin about how to study the Bible.

Beginning at the 15 minute mark, Andy Davis reveals that it was Mark Dever who recommended him to the pastor search committee at First Baptist Church Durham. Interestingly, the pastor search committee was initially interested in Mark Dever coming to pastor the church (after having been at Capitol Hill Baptist Church for four years).

http://thewartburgwatch.com/2017/06/07/mark-dever-paves-the-way-for-andy-davis-pastoral-career/

CWA of Washington highly recommends this article recently published in CWA’s monthly Prayer/Action Newsletter that goes out to CWA leaders around the country.

By Mario Diaz, Esq., Legal Counsel, CWA

I was proud to represent Concerned Women for America (CWA) at the 2014 National Conference of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, titled, “The Gospel, Homosexuality and the Future of Marriage.” I think you will agree that few topics are more relevant to the culture in which God has called us to live.

American culture is in desperate need of Christian leadership in every area, but especially in the area of sexuality where we have seen the absolute degradation and desecration of Biblical morality.

I am writing to you as I reflect on the culmination of the first day of discussions at the conference. And today, no one was better than Dr. Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, in setting the urgent tone of the issue.

https://concernedwomen.org/the-battle-for-marriage-is-about-the-gospel/

Concerned Women for America (2001) is a U.N. NGO with ECOSOC special consultative status

http://undocs.org/E/2016/INF/5

My friend, Les Puryear, who is hosting the 1st annual small church leadership conference, was recently granted the privilege of interviewing Dr. Al Mohler, President of Southern Seminary and announced candidate for President of the SBC. Les does a good job interviewing Dr. Mohler and I think his answers are worthy of your consideration. I’ll be honest that although I love Dr. Mohler’s theology and appreciate to a great degree what he has done as President of Southern, I am struggling with his candidacy for President simply because I am typically opposed to entity heads serving as convention President. None-the-less, he is running and these answers offer insight into his thought process.

http://micahfries.com/an-interview-with-dr-mohler/

"It is not amnesty," stated Resolutions Committee Chairman Paul Jimenez. "There is no reference to sanctuaries here."

Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, similarly tweeted his concern about removing the passage in question.

"Southern Baptists are at a crucial decision point," he wrote. "The immigration crisis demands a Gospel response before any political response."

Although the original language supported by Moore and Mohler remained in the resolution – albeit with anti-amnesty language inserted – the tone of the debate became heated at times and the critical vote succeeded by only 43 votes.

http://www.ethicsdaily.com/sbcs-contentious-debate-over-amnesty-for-undocumented-immigrants-cms-18060

Current and Future Issues of the SBC (9:00a)

Ed Stetzer, executive director, Billy Graham Center for Evangelism, Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, moderates a discussion featuring Frank S. Page, president and CEO, SBC Executive Committee, Nashville, Tennessee; K. Marshall Williams, senior pastor, Nazarene Baptist Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Steve Gaines, pastor, Bellevue Baptist Church, Cordova, Tennessee; R. Albert Mohler Jr., president, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky; and James Merritt, lead pastor, Cross Pointe Church, Duluth, Georgia.

http://www.sbclife.net/Articles/2016/06/sla5

Scroggins has served as dean of Boyce, the undergraduate institution of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, since January 2004 and Southern President R. Albert Mohler Jr. said the news is bittersweet.

“This is a sad day for Southern Seminary in that it will bring to a close Dr. Scroggins’ outstanding leadership as Dean of Boyce College,” he said. “But, in reality, this is in every way reason for our pride in Dr. Scroggins and our excitement to see what God will do through his pastoral leadership of that great congregation.”

Scroggins earned both his master of divinity and Ph.D. from Southern and his bachelor’s degree from Jacksonville University in Florida. Scroggins vacates a teaching pastor position at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, where he has served since 1997.

Mohler said though the departure of Scroggins is a loss on both a professional and personal level, the position he is filling is an excellent ministry opportunity.

“At the personal level, I just can’t express how much I will miss him,” he said. “He is a great friend as well as a cherished colleague. Many others will share this loss.

http://news.sbts.edu/2008/06/19/scroggins-called-to-first-baptist-church-of-west-palm-beach/

I am so glad my colleague Norman Horn, founder and President of the Libertarian Christian Institute (LCI), was given a chance to debate well-known evangelical leader and Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President, Albert Mohler.

http://libertarianchristians.com/2016/03/08/worldview-allies-or-enemies/

Men’s Retreat will once again be at Ridgecrest, Nov 4-6. Theme: “A Man for All Seasons”. Featured speakers are Albert Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological and Afshin Ziafat, lead pastor Providence Church in Frisco, TX. The Missionary Speaker is Jimmie Hull, Missionary in Uruguay.

http://northridgecma.org/nrc-news/mens-retreat-2016-nov4-6/__blogtitlelink__/

https://www.caryalliance.org/events/district-mens-retreat-2016/

https://www.firstalliancetoccoa.com/featured-events/FACT/mens-retreat-1

file:///C:/Users/new/Downloads/Retreat16_Flyer8.5x11-blue.pdf

THE MAN FROM ISSACHAR

An Address Delivered in the City of Washington, D.C. upon the Inauguration of Russell D. Moore as President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 at Capitol Hill Baptist Church by R. Albert Mohler, Jr., President of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Excerpts:

“First, I point to the character and giftedness of this man. I can remember the very first conversation I had with Russell Moore. In that first meeting, I caught a glimpse of his intelligence, his conviction, and his ambitions. I knew then that he was out to change the world, but that his first loyalty and constant horizon is not this world, but the world that is already but not yet—in other words, not the kingdoms of this world but the Kingdom of our God and of His Christ.

His intellect is first rate, as is his scholarship. He came as a Doctor of Philosophy student and transformed his doctoral dissertation into a manifesto for kingdom ministry and cultural engagement. His intelligence is energetic and his wit always on hand. To talk with Russ is to enter into a world of ideas undergirded by conviction and footnoted with readings.”

“He is one of the most natural conversationalists I have ever encountered. He is like the Victorians who could enter any room and join the conversation and immediately add to it. He is a voracious reader who is a walking bibliography and a library on legs. He comes alive when a book or an idea or a problem or a personality comes to attention.”

“Russell Moore is a Baptist by conviction and a Southern Baptist by passion. He is a member of the tribe who transcends tribalism. He is not a Baptist by accident. His commitment to the free church in a free state and to the elegant simplicity of Baptist ecclesiology is clear. He is a conversionist and a churchman. He is deeply committed to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and to the Great Commission. He knows the Southern Baptist Convention and he loves Southern Baptists with an eyes-open love. Thus, he can lead Southern Baptists. The late Carlyle Marney once said of Southern Baptists, “We may not be much but we are many.” Russ Moore is representative of a generation of leaders needed to make much of many.

He is, as no less than Augustine described the Christian teacher, one who is passionately committed to truth because he stakes his life on this truth and is himself transformed by this truth. He is, as our common mentor Carl F. H. Henry would define, a Christian thinker who is unreservedly committed to the totality of the comprehensive truth claim of the Christian world and life view.”

“So we know the man, but what of the times? Twenty-five years ago, Carl Henry warned:

Our generation is lost to the truth of God, to the reality of divine revelation, to the content of God’s will, to the power of his redemption, and to the authority of His Word. For this loss it is paying dearly in a swift relapse to paganism. The savages are stirring again; you can hear them rumbling and rustling in the tempo of our times.[1]

The last quarter century since Henry’s statement of our crisis has brought no reversal of the trends he observed. To the contrary, the formerly Christian West is, in many sectors, so thoroughly secularized that it now has no consciousness of even being so. The Christian truth claim was reduced to a Christian memory, and now even that memory is gone.”

“But the real crisis is not in the world, but in the church. More than sixty years ago, Carl Henry (whose 100^th birthday we would mark this year), reminded the evangelicals of that day that the failure was ours before it was a failure in the world.

It was the failure of Fundamentalism to work out a positive message within its own framework, and its tendency instead to take further refuge in a despairing view of world history, that cut off the pertinence of evangelicalism to the modern global crisis. The really creative thought, even if done in a non-redemptive context, was now being done by non-evangelical spokesmen.[2]

Through this analysis of the problem, what Henry called The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism, he called evangelicals to a new mode of cultural and intellectual engagement.

“There is a rising tide of reaction in Fundamentalism today—a reaction born of uneasy conscience and determined no longer to becloud the challenge of the Gospel in modern times,” Henry wrote. “It is a reaction to which the best minds of evangelicalism are bending their effort these days, convinced that no synthesis is more relevant than modern frustration and biblical redemptionism.”[3]

In other words, he saw a generation coming, and he saw the likes of Russell Moore on the horizon. We dare not underestimate the challenges before us. We are living in a cut-flower civilization. There is a new paganism growing rapidly around us. There are threats to human life and human flourishing at every hand. We do see the ramparts of the family and the faith being both scaled and taken down. Religious liberty is under direct threat and we find ourselves in a moment of great civilizational peril.”

http://www.albertmohler.com/2013/09/12/the-man-from-issachar-an-address-at-the-inauguration-of-russell-d-moore/

Influence of Carl F. H. Henry and Billy Graham on Al Mohler:

“For much of Mohler’s student career at Southern, he identified with the denomination’s moderates. As an adolescent in south Florida he had been impressed with the ideas and ministries of such evangelical leaders as Carl F. H. Henry, Francis Schaeffer, and D. James Kennedy. While completing his dissertation at Southern Seminary on the thought of Karl Barth and Carl Henry, his conservatism deepened.”

Excerpt from Southern Baptist Seminary 1859-2009 by Gregory A. Wills

Russell Moore also did his 2002 doctoral dissertation, "Kingdom Theology and the American Evangelical Consensus: Emerging Implications for Sociopolitical Engagement" seeks to reapply Henry's agenda to the context of contemporary evangelical thought.

https://www.monergism.com/topics/mp3-audio-multimedia/all-north-american-speakers-messages/russell-d-moore

Carl F. H. Henry was involved in the start-up of Fuller Theological Seminary with his friend Harold Ockenga, of Christianity Today with Billy Graham and Carl was also the first editor of it, of the Evangelical Theological Society, and of the National Association of Evangelicals. Billy Graham was the primary speaker for more than fifteen years of the National Prayer Breakfast of the largest network of religious politicians in the world. Billy was also founder of the Lausanne Council in 1966 in Berlin’s World Congress on Evangelism and the International Congress on World Evangelization in 1974. He was also the spiritual leader involved in helping the public to not want to further investigate into 9/11, the Oklahoma City Bombing, and Hurricane Katrina crimes.

See also R. Albert Mohler, Jr., "Carl F. H. Henry," in George, Timothy and David S. Dockery, eds. Theologians of the Baptist Tradition, 279-296 (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 2001).

Southern Baptist Seminary 1859-2009 (Book)

By Gregory A. Wills

Has a picture of Billy Graham, R. Albert Mohler, and Carl F. H. Henry in front of Norton Hall after he became President of The Southern Baptist Convention

SBTS archives also has a picture of the three of them talking inside during that week of Mohler’s inauguration

http://archives.sbts.edu/the-history-of-the-sbts/our-story/resurgence-1993-present/

http://asheville.savelocalnow.com/event/Leadership-Renewal-Retreat-The-Conviction-to-Lead-with-R-Albert-Mohler-Jr

Leadership Renewal Retreat:The Conviction to Lead
with R. Albert Mohler, Jr., November 7-9, 2016

http://notesfromthecove.com/free-retreats-for-pastor-and-spouse-at-the-cove/

ADAM W. GREENWAY

Dean, Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry; William Walker Brookes Associate Professor of Evangelism and Apologetics (2007)

Adam W. Greenway is Dean of the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Ministry at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, where he also serves as the William Walker Brookes Associate Professor of Evangelism and Apologetics. Greenway has served as pastor and/or interim pastor of churches in Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Texas, and Florida. Active in denominational life and leadership, he has served as Vice Chairman of the Committee on Nominations of the Southern Baptist Convention, and is a former trustee and Chairman of the Board of LifeWay Christian Resources. Greenway is also a past president of the Kentucky Baptist Convention. He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the Evangelical Philosophical Society, and is a past president of the Southern Baptist Professors of Evangelism Fellowship. Greenway is accredited as a Professional Registered Parliamentarian, and serves both the KBC as its parliamentarian and the SBC as an assistant parliamentarian. He is co-editor of Evangelicals Engaging Emergent and The Great Commission Resurgence, and has contributed articles to various books and journals.

http://www.sbts.edu/academics/faculty/adam-w-greenway/

http://www.sbts.edu/bgs/#dean

Sitting in a golf cart, evangelist Billy Graham addresses the news media June 19 on the field of Papa John's Cardinal Stadium. Graham was in town for the Greater Louisville Billy Graham Crusade June 21-24. R. Albert Mohler Jr., chairman of the crusade's executive committee and president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is in the background. by Peter Beck

R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and chairman of the Greater Louisville Crusade's executive committee, said he is thankful that Graham has come to Louisville again.

"There has been a group of persons who for many years have been praying together that the Lord will bring Dr. Graham here for a major crusade," Mohler said. "The seeds of this were really sewn in 1956. Rare is the city that has the opportunity to host a Billy Graham crusade. Far rarer is the city that is able to have Dr. Graham come twice."

http://www.bpnews.net/11157/graham-in-louisville-for-crusade-aims-to-preach-as-long-as-i-live

http://pulpitandpen.org/2015/02/20/russell-moores-erlc-change-agents-of-the-united-nations/

http://www.bpnews.net/7044/graham-plans-crusade-in-louisville-mohler-to-be-among-local-organizers

We have not found a primary source to verify John MacArthur present in 1986, but he was there in 1988 – if anyone finds verification, let us know:

Consider, for example, John MacArthur – probably the most conservative of the three names mentioned and noted for his expository preaching. In 2007, he was a speaker at Moody Bible Institute’s Founder’s Week! Moody Bible Institute at one time stood opposed to the ecumenism of men like Billy Graham, refusing to participate in Graham’s crusades when they came to the Chicago area. However, by 1986 this position was forsaken as they welcomed Billy as a Founder’s Week speaker, along with John MacArthur. Moody’s leadership has followed the trend of Evangelicals toward a more open and tolerant attitude to those who are Liberal (a kind word for being either apostate or pagan). They have also embraced the spread of New Evangelicalism (modifying the school’s curriculum and implementing degree programs to meet the increasing educational demands), and have continued to adopt modern heresies, so that today they promote the latest forms of Emergent spirituality. Moody, like other formerly solid Christian institutions, has followed the pattern away from Fundamentalism into apostasy. However, despite this spiritually downward spiral, John MacArthur continues to join them for Founder’s Week, thereby aligning himself not only with Moody Bible Institute’s ecumenical position, but also with those faltering Evangelicals who join him on the conference platform.

http://www.thenarrowtruth.com/chapter-52.html

Influential alumni from Samford University where Al Mohler has a Bachelor of Arts degree; does Al Mohler know any of them?

Charles Crist, former Florida governor, graduated from Cumberland School of Law

Philip Birnbaum, author and translator of Jewish works

William Edward Hull, retired Provost of Southern Seminary and Samford University; New Testament scholar

David Gordon Lyon, Hollis Chair at Harvard Divinity School and founding curator of Semitic Museum

Bubba Cathy, billionaire businessman, Chick-fil-A ^[54]

Al Mohler defends Truett Cathy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ljHEcg-xc

Joel Hunter and Al Mohler are unpaid advisors to Christian Post; discussion about the fact that LifeWay Resources was thinking about selling their Glorieta, NM (where GCC’s Camp Regen is hosted) to Olivet University who is a global partner to World Evangelical Alliance; Joel Hunter is on the board of both World Evangelical Alliance and National Association of Evangelicals:

Richard Land, head of the Southern Baptists' Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, is the Christian Post's executive editor. Baptist seminary presidents Al Mohler and Danny Akin are senior editorial advisers to Christian Post, as is Orlando, Fla., megachurch pastor Joel Hunter.

Olivet alumni and administrators also have become leaders at the National Association of Evangelicals and the World Evangelical Association.

Yet even people with official ties to people in Olivet admit not understanding the group and its complex web of related for-profit businesses.

For example, Jang serves on the North American Council of the World Evangelical Association with Hunter. But Hunter's spokesman, Robert Andrescik, said Hunter didn't know much about Jang. And he didn't know that Jang or Olivet had any relationship with the Christian Post, where Hunter is an unpaid adviser.

Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Ky., is also an unpaid adviser. He said that the site reprints some of his columns and that he has met a few leaders.

"I can vouch for their product but not the people behind it," he said.

Richard Land is paid for his role as executive editor of the Christian Post. He was not available for comment.

https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2012-07-16/lifeway-land-deal/56256458/1

http://www.worldevangelicals.org/members/globalpartners.htm

R. Albert Mohler Jr. of Southern Seminary and Danny Akin of Southeastern Seminary also were mentioned in The Tennessean article as being senior editorial advisers to The Christian Post. Mohler told The Tennessean the Post has used his columns and he has met some of its leaders.

http://www.tciarchive.org/8304.article

Richard Land

https://www.cfr.org/membership-roster-l-p

Russell Moore – president emeritus of Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission – is executive editor of the Christian Post whose parent organization – Christian Media Corporation International – is a global partner of World Evangelical Alliance. Other past contributors include Billy Graham, Chuck Colson, Richard Land, Greg Laurie, Joyce Meyer, Tullian Tchividjian. Chairman of their Board of Advisors has been an ambassador for World Evangelical Alliance for fifteen years as Secretary and CEO, also to Pontifical gatherings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Christian_Post

World Evangelical Alliance (1997) is on the list of U.N. NGOs with ECOSOC special consultative status

http://undocs.org/E/2016/INF/5 WEA is also involved in much communication with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity

Mohler with Salem Communications:

Starting July 29, 2003 and continuing to the present (November 2005), Mohler blogged on CrossWalk.com, a web site maintained by Salem Web Network of Chesterfield, VA.

https://soundfaith.com/sermons/82972-albert-mohler

Townhall.com - WHERE YOUR OPINION COUNTS

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[Hugh Hewitt, David Aikman, and Michael Medved are the other members of the editor board with their short bio.]

R. ALBERT MOHLER, JR. serves as the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, one of the largest seminaries in the world. An author, theologian and ordained minister, TIME magazine has referred to him as the “reigning intellectual of the evangelical movement in the U.S.” Dr. Mohler’s numerous books include Atheism Remix: A Christian Confronts the New Atheists. His regular commentary, podcast and blog are available at AlbertMohler.com. Dr. Mohler brings a clear, charitable Christian voice to contemporary issues.

CONTRIBUTING EDITORS

DAVID DAVENPORT has dedicated much of his distinguished career to public policy and the advancement of higher education. From 1985 to 2000 he served as president of Pepperdine University. He is now Counselor to the Director and Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

ARTHUR BROOKS is president of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). Formerly a Professor of Business and Government at Syracuse University, Arthur’s numerous books include The Battle: How the Fight Between Free Enterprise and Big Government will Shape America’s Future.

http://salemmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2012/05/ResourceGuide.pdf Page 9 (excerpts from)

Richard Perle – Research Fellow to the AEI is a regular at Bilderberg gatherings; Arthur Brooks is the President and is holding a forum with Al Mohler’s friend John MacArthur at the Master’s College in 2011:

John MacArthur with Arthur Brooks of American Enterprise Institute

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR2K5mZ2hdU

Conservative Spotlight: Townhall.com

Robert Bluey Tuesday April 5, 2005 8:00 AM

The transformation began in December when Heritage’s board of trustees approved the spinoff upon the recommendation of its president, Ed Feulner. It was Feulner who took a lead role in Townhall’s growth over the past 10 years when “Town Hall” was only a private online bulletin board run by National Review and Heritage. The domain Townhall.com has existed since 1995. National Review eventually sold its share to Heritage, which successfully marketed the website with commentaries, news, online chats and daily e-mails.

Bond, 35, a former chief of staff to Feulner, is the new face behind Townhall. He spent nearly four years working with Feulner, and before that was a health care sales representative for Pfizer. He has also worked in government, serving as the chief of staff for Republican Oklahoma Corporate Commissioner Denise Bode and a legislative assistant for former Sen. Don Nickles (R.-Okla.).

http://humanevents.com/2005/04/05/conservative-spotlight-townhallcom/

Heritage Foundation is on the List of U.N. ECOSOC NGO’s with Special Consultative Status

http://undocs.org/E/2016/INF/5

Al Mohler’s Southern Baptist Seminary promotes understanding of Islam as a primary course and built a center for Christian understanding of Islam:

Jenkins Center Panel Discussion on the Christian Understanding of Islam

The Jenkins Center for the Christian Understanding of Islam exists to bring a front-line exposure to Islam right into the heart of the seminary’s academic…

http://www.albertmohler.com/2014/09/26/jenkins-lecture-panel-discussion/

(excerpts from an introduction to the Jenkins Center)

Randy Stinson, senior vice president for academic administration and provost, explained that a group of fellows who are “experts in the area of Islam” will lead the Jenkins Center through research, seminars and writing.

“Not only will they be able to help believers understand various global events from a Christian perspective, they will be producing articles, books and other resources for the church,” Stinson said. “They will also host conferences, roundtable discussions and summits with Islamic scholars from around the world.

The center opens with four fellows, two of whom cannot be announced for security reasons related to their work. The other two, J.D. Greear and Michael Youssef, are scholars who live and minister in the United States.

Greear, who is lead pastor of The Summit Church in Durham, N.C., studied Islamic theology during his doctoral work at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary and served as a missionary among Muslims prior to pastoring in the United States.

The Egyptian-born Youssef is an author, founding rector of the Church of the Apostles in Atlanta, Ga., and founder and president of Leading The Way, a worldwide media ministry. Originally, the seminary planned for Youssef to present the inaugural Jenkins Center lecture in conjunction with the center’s launch. However, inclement weather prohibited his traveling to Louisville. Youssef will give the inaugural lecture at a later date.

In place of Youssef, Mohler gave an address during chapel, “Monotheism Is Not Enough.” Speaking from James 2:19, he pushed back against the idea of three “Abrahamic religions” — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — arguing that authentic Abrahamic faith leads to Jesus Christ.

Mohler described “two great rival systems of belief,” arguing that Islam represents the “main rival” to Christianity around the world.

“In the west, that main system of belief is modern secularism — which is a complete worldview system. But almost everywhere else in the world, Islam is the main rival in terms of the belief systems that take a hold of humanity,” he said.

Islam also presents challenges related to theology and apologetics, according to Mohler. He stressed again that Christian discussions of Muslim theology must seek to understand Islam in light of the gospel.

Finally, Mohler said that Christians face a challenge of love regarding Islam. Loving Muslims, he said, means understanding and engaging Muslims in both “honest and accurate” and “loving and respectful” ways.

“Jesus ordered us to go into all the world and to find all the world as our neighbor — a neighbor we are to love,” he said. “And if we do love, we will seek to understand what they believe and we seek to confront them with the gospel.”

Closing, Mohler emphasized the importance of Southern Seminary’s new initiatives in developing this Christian understanding of Islam, calling it a “non-negotiable” for future ministers.

The Jenkins are members of Paoli Christian Church in Paoli, Ind., where Bill Jenkins, co-founder and manager of Mainstream Investments and Advisors in New Albany, Ind., is an elder and Connie Jenkins, a graduate of the Women’s Ministry Institute at Southern Seminary, is involved in the women’s ministry. They have four grown sons: Aaron, Stephen, Chad and Neil.

The Jenkins Center website — jenkins.sbts.edu — provides information about and resources for the engagement of Islam.

http://news.sbts.edu/2014/02/20/in-new-center-dedication-mohler-describes-urgency-for-a-christian-understanding-of-islam/

Southern Seminary’s Pastor’s Wives Training Seminary

An accompanying Women's Ministry Institute at Southern Seminary prepares women to minister to other women in the local church. Both programs are offered through Southern Seminary's Boyce College and headed up by Mary Mohler, wife of Southern Seminary President Albert Mohler.

Mary Mohler and Dorothy Patterson were the only two women serving on a seven-member committee that drafted a family amendment added to the Baptist Faith & Message in 1998. That article proscribed the proper role for a wife as "to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband, even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ."

http://www.ethicsdaily.com/baptist-seminary-offers-degree-in-homemaking-for-pastors-wives-cms-9062

They talked in a panel discussion about expectations and priorities and then in the second hour talked about focus on the family.

http://www.unashamedworkman.org/workmans-toolbox/pastors-wives-panel/

http://www.thewatchmanwakes.com/John-Macarthur-Al-Mohler-Dever-UN-change-agents.html

General Biography Info about Al Mohler:

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Southern Seminary)
Mohler joined the staff of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky in 1983 as Coordinator of Foundation Support. In 1987 he became Director of Capital Funding, a post he held until 1989. While still a student he served as assistant to then-President Roy Honeycutt.

In February 1993, Mohler was appointed President of the Seminary by conservatives on that institution's board of trustees, succeeding Roy Honeycutt. The seminary soon saw a wholesale shift towards conservative theology (characterised by Mohler as a move toward "confessional fidelity") and a rapid exodus (both voluntary and compulsory) of more than 60 percent of the faculty. Diana Garland the dean of a unit of the Seminary, the Carver School of Church Social Work, was fired over a conflict with Mohler. The Carver School was eventually dissolved as the new administration judged social work to be out of keeping with biblical doctrine. In 1999, nearly a million dollars of its endowment were returned to the Women's Missionary Union in accordance with the terms of an undisclosed settlement.

One departing faculty member, G. Wade Rowatt, referred to the new regime as "a Baptist version of the Taliban." (Mohler shakes up Southern Baptists)

Other, more conservative Baptist leaders were elated: Paige Patterson, another Southern Baptist Convention seminary president, said Mohler's leadership “will mean that they recover their evangelical emphasis there” and that Mohler's Presidency meant that “the worst of the problems” were over: “Al Mohler has the brains of Erasmus and the courage of Luther.”

https://soundfaith.com/sermons/82972-albert-mohler

As noted last week, Southern Baptist Seminary’s President Rev. Albert Mohler recently told a reporter that evangelicals have “lied about the nature of homosexuality” and reinforced his sentiments at the recent Southern Baptist Convention conference. I think it is going to take awhile for Rev. Al Mohler’s words about evangelicals and homosexuality to sink in – even for those who say they agree with him.

In this Baptist Press article, Exodus International President, Alan Chambers, came to Rev. Mohler’s defense against critics who say Mohler is going soft on gays, saying (in italics)

“I grew up in a Southern Baptist church, and I am eternally grateful for what I learned there — the truth that I learned and the biblical foundation that I have,” Chambers said. “But there was no way that I was ever going to tell anybody in my church growing up that I struggled with these things. I am very thankful to say that that has changed [in that church]…. But we’ve still all got to do better.”

http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/dr-warren-throckmorton/al-mohler-and-exodus-international-agree-or-disagree.html

R. Albert Mohler Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary and president of the Council of Seminary Presidents, said in a statement to Baptist Press, "Randy Williams comes with a unique background, having experience as a pastor and as an administrator. He brings a solid educational background and the ability to teach and give tremendous leadership to Seminary Extension for the generation ahead."

http://www.sbclife.net/Articles/2007/08/sla11

R. Albert Mohler Jr. serves as president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In 2000, Dr. Mohler served on a panel that made recommendations to the SBC for revisions to the Baptist Faith and Message, the statement of faith most widely held among Southern Baptists. He currently serves as chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Council of Seminary Presidents.

http://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/holding-line-interview-r-albert-mohler-jr/

Excerpts from Nate Sparks article about whether C. J. Mahaney knew about abuse within Sovereign Grace Ministries and how Al Mohler is trying to give Mahaney a clean slate of approval:

Willful Ignorance

“No good tree bears bad fruit, nor does a bad tree bear good fruit. Each tree is recognized by its own fruit. People do not pick figs from thorn bushes, or grapes from briers. A good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and an evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.

– Luke 6:43-45 (NIV)

Yesterday (October 9, 2016), Albert Mohler published an op ed piece in The Washington Post. In this post, Mohler declared unequivocally that any presidential candidate, and indeed any person at all, who would brag about grabbing women by the genitals against their will is a sex predator. As a result, Mohler argues that no evangelical can, in good conscience, defend such a candidate. Thus, as he sees it, support for a sex predator, if left unchecked, will mark the downfall of Evangelical Christianity.

As I read this article, I found my response to be a mixture of agreement and amazement. That is, while I agree with Mohler in principle – he is absolutely right that the tapes contain depictions of sexually predatory behavior and voting for such a man violates the Christian ethic – I am struck by the depths of Al Mohler’s hypocrisy.

Defending Mahaney

On May 23, 2013, Albert Mohler, along with Ligon Duncan and Mark Dever, issued a statement on behalf of Together for the Gospel. In this statement, Mohler declared that, while he cannot pass judgment on accusations against the other individuals named in the SGM Lawsuit, CJ Mahaney is entirely innocent of all the accusations against him.

However, a quick examination of the facts presented in the Second Amended Complaint of the SGM Lawsuit will reveal just how self-defeating this statement is.”

“For 23 years, Grant Layman, Gary Ricucci, and CJ Mahaney knew that a father was preying sexually upon his 9 young children. However, rather than report these incidents to law enforcement, the leaders of Covenant Life Church and Sovereign Grace Ministries carried out a conspiracy to silence these children’s stories.

The only way Albert Mohler can declare CJ Mahaney innocent – and thus tacitly proclaim all leaders implicated in the SGM lawsuit innocent as well – is to remain willfully ignorant of these incidents. He does not continue to defend Mahaney because he has practiced careful discernment; he has not, through careful examination, determined the evidence does not hold up. Instead, Mohler has chosen to protect his friend rather than hear the voices of the victims of SGM child sex abuse. And in doing so, Mohler has betrayed precisely the ethical admonitions he has sought to enforce upon evangelicals supporting Trump.”

https://natesparks130.com/2016/10/11/willful-ignorance/

http://thewartburgwatch.com/2016/04/15/al-mohler-extolls-cj-mahaney-at-t4g-while-joking-at-the-expense-of-sgm-victims-does-money-play-a-role-in-the-relationship/

After two years of low profile amid questions about his handling of allegations of child sexual abuse, C.J. Mahaney is back on the program for the 2016 Together for the Gospel confab in Louisville, Ky.

A speaker sidelined two years ago by a sexual abuse scandal at his former church is back at center stage for an upcoming conference featuring prominent leaders in the Southern Baptist Convention.

C.J. Mahaney, senior pastor of Sovereign Grace Church of Louisville, Ky., joins Southern Baptist Theological Seminary President Albert Mohler and International Mission Board President David Platt as scheduled speakers at the biennial Together for the Gospel conference scheduled April 12-14 in Louisville, Ky.

http://urbanchristiannews.com/2015/09/c-j-mahaney-is-back-pastor-to-speak-at-2016-together-for-the-gospel-conference-in-louisville-kentucky/

Al Mohler’s relationships with Focus on the Family and Family Research Council:

Jim Daly says Mohler is a “close advisor and friend”:

Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family, said, “Dr. Mohler had a firm grasp of the power of Twitter and Facebook way back in the days when most of us still saw them as mysterious emerging technologies.”

Mohler serves on the board of directors of Focus, an international radio and publishing ministry founded by psychologist James Dobson that assists families. Daly counts Mohler as a “close advisor and friend as we navigated the waters of leadership transition.”

http://equip.sbts.edu/article/innovative-communicator-of-evangelical-conviction/

Al Mohler is a board member of Focus on the Family:

R. Albert Mohler, Jr. (born 1960) is an Southern Baptist, evangelical Calvinist. He presently serves as the ninth President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He has been a member of the board of James Dobson's Focus on the Family since August 31, 2004.

https://soundfaith.com/sermons/82972-albert-mohler

Focus on the Family and Focus on the Family Canada are on the Heritage Foundation is on the List of U.N. ECOSOC NGO’s with Special Consultative Status

http://undocs.org/E/2016/INF/5

Justice Sunday[edit]

Mohler was on the board of directors of Focus on the Family. In this role he was one of the principal organizers of Justice Sunday, a nationally televised event broadcast from Highview Baptist Church

, Mohler's home church, in Louisville on April 24, 2005. Mohler shared the stage with Charles Colson and Focus on the Family founder James Dobson. U. S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist appeared at the event via videotape. Another host of the program was Family Research Council president Tony Perkins.

https://web.archive.org/web/20050623121629/http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05%2F05%2F05%2F1429230

For the Record: My Address at ‘Justice Sunday’ by Al Mohler

Many thanks to RadioBlogger

[an invaluable site you should bookmark quickly], who posted a transcript of my address at ‘Justice Sunday.’ I stand by every word. Here it is:

I am greatly thrilled to be here tonight with Tony Perkins, and Dr. James Dobson, and so many others. Because I believe that tonight is the start of something really important. I think this is about the people of God. Evangelical Christians beginning to understand what our responsibility really is. Now this is a little unusual for our Church on a Sunday night. We have a lot of other Churches gathering with us, and this isn’t what we do most Sunday nights. Why? It is because this is a Gospel Church. This is a Church that is established upon the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Our main message is salvation through grace alone. By faith alone. Through Christ alone. The main message we want to communicate is that we want to see all persons come to know the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior. We want to communicate to all that we are not calling for persons merely to be moral. We want them to be believers in the Lord Jesus Christ, because we don’t just need instruction, we need salvation.

Now because of that, something has to explain why we would take this time on a Sunday night to talk about something like the federal judiciary.

http://www.albertmohler.com/2005/04/26/for-the-record-my-address-at-justice-sunday/

MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL.

For more on “Justice Sunday,” we turn to one of the chief organizers, Dr. Albert Mohler, who is president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary…

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7629487/ns/msnbc-about_msnbc_tv/t/hardball-chris-matthews-april/#.WW1pX-vyuUk

Al Mohler joins the board of Focus on the Family in 2004

http://news.sbts.edu/2004/09/03/mohler-joins-board-of-focus-on-the-family/