Maybe it’s because I’ve been seeing a lot of Kevin Bacon while bingeing on The Following, but when a reader suggested that we play a game based on the classic Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, I couldn’t resist. This may turn out to be a complete disaster of a Friday Challenge but we can try it anyway.
For the purposes of this game a person who has a degree of 1 is anybody who has taught, preached, studied, or attended at Hyles-Anderson or FBC Hammond. Therefore both Jack Schaap and Steven Anderson would have a degree of one. Anybody who attended school with, was a church member of, or was in ministry with that person would then have a degree of 2 and so on.
So what’s your Hyles Degree? What degree did fundies you rubbed shoulders with have?
May be I’m the first in this list to be from South America, Argentina. I used to be an independent baptist pastor in 2 churches. We suffer the hispanic branch of Hyles-Ander College: “Fuegos de Evangelismo” (Fires of Evangelism) directed by Elmer Fernandez. I’m witness of local scandals of their students (“preacher boys”, very poor preachers, indeed). You can´t find an article in spanish about theses guys (Schaap, Hyles, etc). I’m writing about it, and your site is a great help. They have a principle: ” if you don´t talk about this, it doesn´t exist”. If you have more information about the “hispanic Hyles”, let me know. May be I’m the 4th degree in the scale.
I consider myself a three. My first serious boyfriend in junior high has a younger sister who is a member of a very fundamentalist church and she attended HAC a few years ago.
I also attended said church for a few years as a young child but they talked about Revelation and all that, so nope.