Unspoken prayer requests are a staple of any fundamentalist prayer meeting. Far from being a simple acknowledgment of an private and personal need, “unspokens” have a variety of classifications. The All Inclusive This is the most common form of the unspoken request. This call for a show of hands often comes at the end of [...]

Here, Jim Schettler former pastor at Pensacola Christian College explains why Western Music of a particular style is more acceptable to God than the ‘awful’ music from other cultures. It’s a shame we don’t have recordings of the songs of the Old Testament. I have a feeling this preacher might be in for a shock.

Every few weeks, the congregations of most fundamentalists churches range themselves in dread array and enter the fiercest kind of battle: the church business meeting. One wonders if these events are what Paul had in mind when he called Christians to fight the good fight… Summary of the minutes from the monthly business meeting of [...]

For most of people, airplanes are uncomfortable transportation devices intended to get them quickly from point A to point B — hopefully with same number of bags, children, and pets they started out with. For fundamentalist preachers and evangelists, however, airplanes are the perfect location to gather unto themselves stories of in-flight evangelism. Somehow, even [...]

One has to wonder if this fundamentalist preacher has ever heard the term “ethnocentric.”

In fundy churches, the most common type of traveling musical family is the missionary family. The traveling family musical act is a mainstay of the fundamentalist missionary endeavor. If a missionary is to be a success on deputation and furlough he or his family must sing, play an instrument, and be able to quote John [...]

Somewhere in a fundamentalist church a guest speaker is wrapping up his thunderous sermon. He swigs a last sip of water from the cup on the pulpit and invites the pastor back to the so he can “draw the net” with the invitation. The pastor thanks the speaker grandly for his wonderful message and then [...]

“Please bow your heads and close your eyes.” For all of their bluster, fundamentalists are a private bunch when it comes to something as dearly personal as raising ones hand to give a non-specific response at the end of a sermon on a generic topic. There have to be some boundaries of personal space after [...]

For those folks who just consider the Christian flag to be too ecumenical there is now the Baptist Flag There’s even a pledge to it: I pledge allegiance to the Baptist Flag, And to the Faith once delivered unto the Saints. I will ever remain faithful to the tie that binds us together, The Book, [...]

Today marks post #100 on this blog. Thanks to everyone who has had an encouraging word for me as I write these little bits of nonsense. If you have suggestions for topics you’d like to see written about on here, send them along to stuffundieslike@gmail.com and I’ll be sure to put them on my list [...]