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The Outward Appearance

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Comic Books

If you too had nightmares because of reading the Crusader comic books will you raise your hand as a testimony tonight? Yes, I see that hand. Many hands are going up all over the auditorium… (Click to Read)

Strong’s Concordance

Need to write a sermon on a topic but don’t know where to start? Since 1890, Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance has been helping fundamentalists string together verses that contain the same word regardless of their respective contexts. You need proof texts? We got proof texts. But wait, there’s more! Want to go even deeper and give your message [...]

Fabulous Fundy Fiction Favorites: Al Lacy

Al Lacy bears the distinction of being the creative force behind the most gut-wrenchingly awful Western fiction known to man. So inevitably he’s also very widely read and enjoyed in fundamentalist circles. How young fundamentalist hearts thrill to the tales of a man named John Stranger who bears a striking resemblance to the Lone Ranger — or [...]

Hearing No Evil (Book Giveaway)

Book giveaways as blog promoters seem to be all the rage these days, so I’m going to jump on the bandwagon and do one too. Thankfully, instead an Old Scofield KJV signed by yours truly (the most awesome prize ever!),  loyal SFL reader  Stephen of  Eskypades has offered to stand in the gap and provide  [...]

Frank Peretti

Fundamentalists are fascinated by stories of demonic forces. Nothing thrills the heart like listening to stories of missionaries in Africa (which seems particularly rife with demonic activity) doing battle with the evil hoards. It’s a small wonder that Frank Peretti, author of such works as This Present Darkness should be wildly popular in fundamentalist circles [...]

Famous Fundies: Phil Kidd

Among the ranks of shock-jock evangelists perhaps none have aspired to the verbal exploits of “Dr.” Phil Kid. Popular with many fundamentalist churches of more militant type, Phil is the master of Hair-Raising Sermon Illustration. It’s a rare event when he manages to make it through a sermon without some apocryphal tale of tragedy and [...]

Testimony Time

“Who would like to share a word of testimony this evening?” Testimony time in a fundamentalist church is an experience unlike anything one could hope to find in the outside world. It’s equal parts performance art, spiritual posturing, and the kind of long winded delivery that you might expect after mistakenly asking your hypochondriac great-aunt [...]

Censorship

If you’ve ever visited a school library, opened a copy of Time magazine and found this: Chances are you have been a fundamentalist. (Unclad bodies are only permitted to be viewed in very expensive religious art galleries.)