Thanks to John for passing this along.

The sweet irony here is that in the Old Testament the year of jubilee was when the slaves were freed and forgiven their debts — which is kind of exactly the opposite at what goes on in these fundyfests.

If you’ve never actually read the Sword of the Lord publication, here is your chance to get a slight taste for its style. Fundamentalist pastors are not particularly known for being stellar writers, so most of the columns consist of transcripts of (often highly edited) sermons. The result is the same kind of long-winded storytelling [...]

Poor Sam Davison just looks so out of place. You’d think one of those other men could at least throw him a pity Ph.D. from one of their basement bible colleges. In fact, I’d like to take this opportunity to offer him one of our own degrees from Old Paths University to correct this deficiency.

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 [...]

The following is report on the 2010 National Sword of the Lord Conference by an attendee. It is published in its entirety without modification (edit: except the adding of the names of the various session speakers). My Background: I come from a nondenominational church on the East Coast. Right now, our church is called a [...]

The “lunatic fringe” of fundamentalism is never quite as far away from the “mainstream” as those who claim to be the mainstream would have you believe. Since guilt by association is a favorite game of many fundies, I’ll beg your indulgence while I try my own hand at it for a moment. Consider Tony Hutson, [...]

For a fee you can now see every edition of the Sword of the Lord back to 1937. Glory! For those who are not familiar with the Sword of the Lord imagine what the National Enquirer would look like if written by Fundamentalists. Then slice in some sermons from C.H. Spurgeon (with the Calvinist stuff [...]