This week’s pick is sonsofthundr.com. This site pretty much defies description so I’ll forgo and let just let you experience it on your own. Be sure to check out the Warning to Pastors about halfway down the first page. It’s…quite something.

Because nothing says “modesty” like playing softball in a pair of wide-legged pants that ride up like crazy when you try to slide into second.

Preacher boys occupy the lowest rung on the fundamentalist ministry ladder.  Above them are the youth minister, Sunday School superintendent, music minister, associate pastor, senior pastor, and finally, pastor of the church that runs the bible college where the senior pastor got his degree. Below them is everybody else. There are not many qualifications for [...]

Fundamentalists eschew denominations preferring to imagine each of their churches as completely separate and independent from every other church. Members often hear the claim that “nobody is going to tell us how to run things around here, amen?” As with most things, it doesn’t really work that way in practice. While fundamentalists do not have [...]

Evidently, peach pits cure cancer…

Because of their emphasis on separation, the body of approved source material for fundamentalists is a very small and often changing list. Quite often when a fundamentalist goes to look for a book or sermon on a given topic there just isn’t one by one of the three fundamentalist leaders he’s still on good terms [...]

Have you ever run into a pastor who’s Doctor of Divinity diploma on the wall bears the name of “Baptist Bible Temple School of Fundamentalist Theology and Textus Receptus Studies”? Have you wondered where and why such a school might have started? You’re not alone. The idea that fundamentalists are “anti-intellectual” is a myth. Fundies [...]

You know that annoying kid in school who loved to brag about how General Lee was his great-great-great-great uncle’s second cousin twice removed? When that kid grows up to be a fundamentalist, he’ll probably be a huge fan of the the book The Trail of Blood. Baptists as a denomination have only been around for [...]

There are a few rules for those women who would be the wife of a fundamentalist pastor. They must look good in jean jumpers; they must have an aptitude for teaching children’s Sunday School; and they must play the piano. One cannot over-emphasize how important that last requirement is. Not only does it give a [...]

Fundamentalists would never let a woman preach in one of their churches. Some won’t even let women speak from the church platform. Yet strangely enough, women missionaries like Isabel Kuhn, Mary Slessor, and Amy Carmichael are highly praised in fundy circles. It would seem that there is an unwritten rule that goes like this “A [...]