Teenager, are you in a jam? Have you been caught red handed shoplifting or listening to the rap music or indulging in some heavy petting in the school gymnasium? Will people in your church be talking about the scandal of your misdeeds for weeks on end? Is your future career as a preacher boy or [...]

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 [...]

Diversion: “If you don’t like what another Christian is doing, why talk bad about it? Why don’t you just pray for them instead?” Origin: Unknown Usage: Whenever someone is speaking an uncomfortable truth about a fundamentalist institution or personality that I like. Strength: Sounds really spiritual. Translation: “Shut up. I don’t want to hear what [...]

In a way I’m hesitant to keep beating this drum for fear that this blog will turn into “stories about IFB rape vicims.” That’s not my intention for this site and there are already several other writers who are undertaking the task. However, in light of my post about “Destroying the Innocent,” I feel compelled [...]

(I wrote this in the comments for the last post but I figured it really deserved its own post) There is a proven four-step method to spinning any scandal that arises in fundamentalism. Observe these well and no scandal is too large, no outrage to unbearable, no offense is too great to be withstood. 1. [...]