Becuase what every “Teen Campmeeting” needs is a bunch of old white guys acting like lunatics.
Category Archives: Church Services
Infantilization of Women
Why do women’s seminars, retreats, and conferences in fundamentalism inevitably end up with themes and content which elsewhere would be targeted at 5 to 7 year old children?
Is it that this is how fundamentalists view women’s maturity in general? Or is it that since women have no other interests than their children that childish motifs are the only way to capture their attention?
I find it extremely puzzling.
Many Meetings
How many other conferences advertise by telling you a dozen things that WON’T be there?
Sunday Night
Several of you have sent me this list form Paul Chappell of 10 Reasons Why We Still have Sunday Evening Service.
Mostly it all boils down to the usual three-to-thrive reason: “because my church should be the primary reason for your existence.”
Blackface Boxing Matches
Clay Mills Road Baptist Church thought it would be cool if at their National Young Fundamentalist Conference they had a minstrel show boxing match featuring a white guy in blackface.
Because what could possibly go wrong with a bunch of white fundamentalists in Kentucky laughing at white guy pretending to be a black guy?
