A reader submitted this bit of sermon parody and I thought that in the tradition of Fundy Sermon Contests that it would be fun to give this one a critique and a rating on whatever scale you deem appropriate.
Youth Conference Promos: Grace Tabernacle Baptist Edition
If I were a youth there would be no way I’d want to miss any meeting with a moderator named “Tater Man.” How could anybody not go?
The Play’s The Thing
Dramatic productions on Fundy U Campuses always create an odd tension as people who like to believe that 1950’s America is the gold standard for all things godly are forced to grapple with the realization that people didn’t always dress, cut their hair, or do their makeup the same way Jimmy Stewart did.
On the one hand, they tacitly admit that standards of dress are culturally relative — otherwise they’re forcing their students to sin by dressing up in costumes that don’t meet the dress code in the rule book. On the other hand, they simply can’t admit that their own culture has long since moved away from preferences and that fighting the culture wars of the 1960’s is no longer a good use of their time.
(And in case anybody wonders, I have no problem at all with the costuming here. These guys are rocking it.)
BJU Bible Conference
BJU Bible conference starts tomorrow and as is now tradition, I’ll be live-tweeting commentary during whichever services I manage to catch.
You can follow along @fundysermons or setup and alert for #bjubc14.
Friday Challenge: Six Degrees of Jack Hyles
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?