Today’s challenge is to alter a movie title to make it more attractive to an audience of fundamentalists. Here are a few to start: ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Who Dress Modestly’ ‘The Cider House Rules Are Not Written Down Anywhere But You Should Obey Them Anyway’. ‘The 10,000 Commandments’ (many thanks to John who sent in [...]

Today’s challenge is simply to answer this question: If you could ask one question to a fundamentalist pastor (and be assured of receiving an honest answer) what would your question be?

Today’s challenge is simply to share your memories of how you viewed and celebrated Easter in fundyland and then compare that to the ways (if any) that it has changed for you since you left.

In our travels in, through, and out of fundyland almost all of us have encountered at least one or two people there who make us wish that more fundamentalists were like them. Today’s challenge is to recall a fundy or two who encouraged, helped, or showed kindness to you even in the midst of an [...]

Today’s challenge is to share an incident where you violated a fundyland rule and what punishment you were meted out. Honest confession is good for the soul. (and entertaining for the rest of us.)

Today’s Friday challenge is a fairly simple one. Think about some fundy church you have known and give it a name that better reflects that congregation’s realities. And…go.

I know some of you have been eagerly waiting for today’s challenge: Write or re-write a Christmas hymn or carol to reflect a fundyland reality. And…go

Today’s challenge is to recommend a helpful resource to those who are leaving fundamentalism. Read a good book? Listened to an informative lecture series? Surfed a website that challenged your thinking? Don’t just keep it to yourself! Here are a few that I recommend… Understanding Fundamentalism and Evangelicalism by George M. Marsden If you want [...]

We’re having a party at SFL today! Today’s challenge is to tell us what who you’re coming as and what your costume will be. Feel free to pick either a real famous fundy or fundamentalist archetype such as pastor, preacher boy, or soulwinner. Games will include a shouting contest and bobbing for prayer cards. A [...]

The average fundamentalist hears roughly four-and-a-half bajillion sermons in their lifetime. Through some kind of built-in defense mechanism, they also manage to forget having heard most of them. Today’s challenge is to try to list one or two sermons that you actually do remember and what about them made them memorable.