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The Sword of the Lord: The Roots of Fundamentalism in an American Family (Review)

Whenever I start to read a book about personal experiences in Baptist Fundamentalism, I tend to approach it with a certain amount of anxiety. The reason for this is twofold: 1) a fear that it will not affirm my own experience and 2) a hope that the book will treat the subject matter with the [...]

Books…Sorta.

So what are your favorite books, Dr. Schaap? Evidently the answer is 1611! Hyles! The 1611 that belonged to Hyles! another 1611! and Hyles! And more Hyles! And then some more 1611! I’m downright embarrassed for him.

Free Download of Churched by Matthew Paul Turner

Here’s something I think a lot of you may enjoy. You can now get a free download of Churched, Matthew Paul Turner’s story of his life in fundyland: Free is good. I like free.

Fundy Fiction

Although fundy sermon illustrations may contain any amount of cartoonish death, gore, and sins of multiple varieties, the rest of fundyland fiction tends to be of the extremely anemic variety. The basic problem with fundy fiction is that everyone acts like a fundy. Every character from the hero, to his ever-so-chaste love interest, to the [...]

Cause and Effect

Here fundamentalist writer and pastor David Mikell demonstrates how to make flying logical leaps about cause and effect. (click the photo to embiggen the back cover information)

Reader-Submitted Photo: The Hyles Manual

Please leave your creative captions in the comments. (be nice, the guy who graciously submitted the photo is the one in the picture)

Disclaimers Redux

Many of you know how much I enjoyed the book The Unlikely Disciple by Kevin Roose, the story of a reporter who went undercover at Liberty University. An alert SFL reader passed along this disclaimer page the Liberty University bookstore has placed inside every copy of the book that they are selling. click to embiggen.

Jack Schaap: Insane Heretical Book Edition

Psalm 119:30 says, ‘I have chosen the way of truth: thy judgments have I laid before me.’ That word laid is a sexual term which literally means the same thing as a man laying with a woman. God was saying that God’s laws should be as intimate as a marriage partner in a sexual liason. [...]

Self-publishing

Any fundamentalists pastor worth his suit must write at least one book in his lifetime. It may be a treatise on how all the other fundamentalists but him have completely misinterpreted the significance of Elijah’s leather girdle. Or perhaps it will be a clarion call for fundamentalist tie-wearers to abandon the liberal Full Windsor knot [...]

The Outward Appearance

For this and other great titles such as – “Dressing for the Lord” “Self-Esteem: Satan’s Most Harmful Tool” “Ancient Landmarks (Devotions for Teens and Young Adults)” Check out plainpathpublishers.com