Most of you have read the post I did some time ago about the 4 steps of spinning fundamentalist scandals. Today, however, I was provided with such a stellar example of this process that I couldn’t help revisiting it. To give some background, you can read the news item I posted on May 20th describing [...]

I had the opportunity this morning to Chat with Kevin Thompson of the Understanding Our Times blog and podcast along with Joshua Caucutt, an MBBC grad who writes the Sound Church blog. Our topic was the impact of the Tina Anderson’s story (and the subsequent conviction of Ernie Willis) on fundamentalism. I appreciate Kevin giving [...]

Chuck Phelps, Tina Anderson and Fundamentalism, Part 1 [ 33:45 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

A great and timely essay written and read by the ineffable Matthew Paul Turner. I was going to save this for tomorrow but I decided to post it today…just in case.

Bruthers and Sistrens, Apostrates, and others,  Its been lade on my hart to preach about the Royall Wedding. Every body all egsited becuse the King of Anglend is got merried amen. Amen the only Royall Wedding I care about is the Marrage Supper of the Lam amen. I tell you what I watch that mess [...]

Schapp responds to the 20/20 story with typical graciousness… Note: since the original video was removed due to copyright claim, this is a re-upload by yours truly Note2: Now Hammond has launched a copyright claim against my videos on two different hosts even though they are clearly fair use. Stand by… (I know I just [...]

(haven’t seen the video? watch it on ABC or Hulu) I know many of you were watching along with me Friday night as Elizabeth Vargas and 20/20 took on the stories of abuse in fundamentalism. There will no doubt be a lot of discussion on this so I thought I might start it off with [...]

Almost a year ago, I did a post about the tendency of fundamentalists to shift their stances on issues while all the while pretending that nothing has changed at all. Nothing to see here, folks! We’ve always believed this way. This sort of selective memory was clearly exemplified by the announcement a week ago that [...]

Evidently this is promo for “Independent Baptist Friends International.” There’s a whole lot of fundy goodness in this video not the least of which is observing how the moderator has his hands all over the male speakers but then stands in front of his wife and doesn’t even look at her during the closing.