No, this site has not actually been abducted by aliens or taken over by Irish ninjas. I hope all of you are having as much fun on April 1st as I am

For the next week (or so) at SFL, we’ll be exploring the “Baptist Distinctives” as typically implemented in fundamentalist churches. In case you need a refresher as to what the Baptist Distinctives are, here’s a handy acronym. B Biblical Authority A Autonomy of the Local Church P Priesthood of the Believers T Two Ordinances of [...]

In my inbox this morning. We have disabled the following material as a result of a third-party notification from Bob Jones University claiming that this material is infringing: Dr. Rand Hummel Demonstrates How To Blame The Victim Please Note: Repeat incidents of copyright infringement will result in the deletion of your account and all videos [...]

On a pretty regular basis I get requests for new features in the comment section. With hundreds of comments posted each week, folks want more ability to edit, quote, search, etc. Basically, we’ve reached the point where the blog comment function is just not up to the needs of the ever-growing community who chat on [...]

For no particular reason other than that I can, here are my picks for the posts that I personally enjoyed the most in 2010. Most of these are the products of readers suggestions and conversations with friends who read this blog. One was a a reader created video that still makes me laugh every time [...]

Two years ago I got bored and started a blog.  It wasn’t the first time I had done  this — I’ve been writing somewhere on the Internet for the better part of a decade. But for some reason, people showed up to read this one and add their own thoughts and insights to my few [...]

I’m going to be taking a few days off from writing here (if I can actually stay away for that long) to spend some time with family and other projects. Be good.  Play nice.  Enjoy.

In response to the whining thoughtful input from various people who should be happy to get anything for free instead of complaining loyal readers, I’ve updated the degree template to use fully editable Old English Text font and centered the last two lines You can get the updated one here

With Christmas coming up what do you get the fundamentalist who has everything? Get them the prestige of a title they know they deserve with an honorary doctorate from SFL! SFL is happy to announce the opening of Old Paths Baptist University where the curriculum consists of this blog and a doctorate can be had [...]

I have completely arbitrarily chosen to ordain this week as Preacher Boy Week. (ha! ordain! get it??) This is a decision for which I would like to apologize in advance since I am completely unprepared and have no idea what I’m going to write for the next five days. I’m hopeful that panic and desperation [...]