Jordan Daniel Hall
Jordan Daniel "JD" Hall (born 1981) is a Reformed Baptist Pastor and American polemicist known for popularizing the phenomenon of Internet discernment ministry. He is the founder of Pulpit & Pen[1], which is widely regarded as the most read website exclusively devoted to polemical theology in the world.[citation needed] His reporting has been at the center of many controversies and is considered a central figure in the Evangelical Dark Web. Hall is the author of numerous books including A Baptist Catechism for Family and Home Devotion and The Benedict Arnold Option. He is also the founder of Reformation Montana and the pastor of Fellowship Baptist Church in Sidney, Montana.
Biography
Jordan D. Hall (also known as J.D. Hall) was born and raised in Houston, Missouri and graduated from Houston High School in 1999. Hall then earned his Bachelor's Degree in Religious Education from Williams Baptist College in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas in 2003. Hall earned his Masters Degree from Arkansas State University in history in 2004. He was raised a Southern Baptist and was licensed for Gospel Ministry at the First Baptist Church of Black Rock, Arkansas and ordained by the Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Annieville, Arkansas. Hall served as a church planter in cooperation with the North American Mission Board and did missions in Iraq, Brazil, and Mexico before moving to Montana in 2008 to pastor the Fellowship Baptist Church.
Hall briefly ran for office for Montana House District 35[2] in 2018, before withdrawing to support another candidate.[3]
Hall is married with five children.
Contribution to Polemics
Hall hosts the Polemics Report podcast, which is published by the Bible Thumping Wingnut Network. The program was originally hosted on the Worldview Weekend radio network and for a time was heard in various terrestrial radio markets on the Wilkins Radio Network.
Hall released previously undisclosed documents relating to a financial scandal and cover-up[4] by Louisiana College in 2013, which eventually led to the college accreditation being put on probation[5] by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and reporting by local and statewide media outlets. The fall-out from Hall's reporting cost Lousiana College more than 45 million dollars[6] in pledged donations.
Hall's website, Pulpit & Pen, broke one of the top news stories in January of 2015[citation needed] when Alex Malarkey of The Boy Who Came Back from Heaven, released an open letter to Lifeway Christian Resources[7] acknowledging the book was fabricated and rebuking Christian retailers for selling it. Hall was later revealed as the co-author of Malarkey's world-famous open letter. Pulpit & Pen was then featured on The Today Show[8] with Matt Lauer, the Washington Post,[9] the Daily Mail,[10] and many other publications.
Hall also exposed Clayton Jennings, a popular evangelist, as a frequent womanizer in 2018. Many women came forward to Hall, who subsequently published their stories,[11] including a reality television star from the program[12] The Bachelor. Jennings' ministry ordination was then revoked by his home church[13] and he was disavowed by his mentor,[14] evangelist Tony Nolan.
Hall reported on the divorce of Greg Locke and his subsequent abuse alleged by his wife, whose testimony was covered by Hall's Pulpit & Pen publication. Until the reporting by Pulpit & Pen, Greg Locke, like Jennings, remained popular on social media platforms but struggled to regain popularity after expose's by Hall. This led to widespread reporting in other publications.[15]
JD Hall's polemics work was quoted in the New York Times[16] in relation to Jonathan Cahn in early 2019.
In 2019, Hall was named among leaders of the Evangelical Dark Web[17] by a U.S. Intelligence Analyst, Brian Auten, a term ascribed to a group of perceivably 'rogue' critics of Social Justice in evangelicalism who operate primarily through online platforms.
Others criticized by Hall include leadership in the Southern Baptist Convention, charismatics, and various sub-Christian sects, Marxists, and cults.
Hall has personally engaged those he criticizes, with at least two notable incidents. In 2017, Hall was removed from the Jim Bakker studio near Branson, Missouri,[18] for interrupting Bakker's live television recording with accusations of false prophecy. Later that year, Hall was forcefully removed from a religious service[19] hosted by New Apostolic Reformation evangelist, Rodney Howard Browne, in Dickinson, North Dakota. On that occasion, Hall was reported in the local news[20] as suffering injury from being removed from the facility. Hall reports that he interrupted that service[21] when Browne attributed Messianic qualities to Donald Trump and did not mention Jesus, sin, or repentance during his sermon. Police were called to the scene, but Hall was not found to have broken the law. Charges were not filed against those who accosted him. Some of Hall's website followers have (peaceably) interrupted services of scandalized celebrity leaders. Tim Weakley, a volunteer for Hall in Tennessee, interrupted one of Greg Locke's revival services in 2018[22] with a call to pray for the evangelist (he was subsequently physically escorted out of the building).
Debates
Hall has engaged in numerous moderated debates including with the then-president of American Vision, Joel McDurmon, on theonomy (2014), Pentecostal preacher, Ante Pavkovic, on the charismatic gifts (2017) and New Covenant Theologian, Luis Lyons on the Sabbath (2017). Hall's debate with McDurmon is of especially notable value, as many have claimed that McDurmon has recanted the position[23] soon after the much-publicized debate.
Published Works
A Baptist Catechism for Family and Home Devotion (Bookmark Publishers, 2016: ISBN 1495619540 Search this book on 
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Help! Arminians Are Giving Me Nightmares Again! (Bookmark Publishers, 2016: ISBN 1495618218 Search this book on .)
The Benedict Arnold Option (Crown and Cross Books, 2017: ISBN 1641270004 Search this book on .)
Reason With Me: On the Doctrine of Election (Crown and Cross Books, 2019)
Embers of a Dying Fire (Crown and Cross Books, 2019)
Ungodly Mess: How Marxism Has Invaded American Evangelicalism (Crown and Cross Books, 2019)
Interviews
References
- ↑ "About". Pulpit & Pen.
- ↑ "Jordan Hall Files for Candidacy for House Rep". RoundUpWeb. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Rost files for House District 35 spot". Sidney Herald. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Louisiana College Pays off (25k) Aguillard's Assistant to Keep Silent on Misdeeds". Pulpit & Pen. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Accrediting Agency Lists Reasons for Putting Louisiana College on Probation". Baptist News Global. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Louisiana College Loses Largest Donor in College History Due to the Unethical Behavior of President Aguillard". Faith On View. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ ""The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven" Recants Story, Rebukes Christian Retailers". Pulpit & Pen. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Boy Author: I Didn't Really Go to Heaven". Today. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "'I Did Not Die. I Did Not Go to Heaven,' Teen Says in Admitting His Book Was Fiction". The Washington Post. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Family Stands by Father Who Co-Wrote 'Heaven Visit' Book With Paralyzed Son Who Claimed He Saw Jesus After Car Wreck - Even Though the Boy Now Admits It Was Made up". Daily Mail. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Clayton Jennings, Money, Sex, and Cover-Ups – the Story From Beginning to End". Pulpit & Pen. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "'The Bachelor' Celebrity Comes Forward as Clayton Jennings' Victim, Speaks out". Pulpit & Pen. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Celebrity Preacher Loses 'License' After Wooed Women Come Forward Citing Sex, Booze & Morning-After Pill". Christian News Network. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "After Sexual Misconduct, Clayton Jennings Leaves Renewal Process". Charisma News. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Popular Internet Pastor Greg Locke Marries Church Assistant After Divorce". Christian Post. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "#MAGA Church: The Doomsday Prophet Who Says the Bible Predicted Trump". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Notes on the Evangelical Dark Web". Mere Orthodoxy. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "JD Hall Confronts Jim Bakker on His False Prophecies". YouTube. Reformation Charlotte. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Controversial Pastor Visits Dickinson: Rival Pastor From Montana Dragged From Church After Protesting". The Dickinson Press. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Two Men Were Dragged out of a Dickinson Church After Loudly Protesting Its Female Pastor". The Jamestown Sun. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Disturbing Rodney Howard Browne's Religious/Political Meeting: The Details". Pulpit & Pen. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Greg Locke Attacked During Tennessee Revival Service; Church Members Expel Critic After Brawl". The Christian Post. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
- ↑ "Joel McDurmon Capitulates on Theonomy, Part 1". Faith & Heritage. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
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