Jack Chick, fundamentalist pamphleteer extraordinaire passed away a couple months ago. Looking back, there was an undeniable brilliance to the man. Indeed, some days I am inclined to place him in the same rarified air as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. No matter that Chick thought he was fighting tirelessly to rescue souls from the […]
Jack Chick
When you play RPGs, is the devil playin’ you?
The other day my friend Clint sent me a link to a new film which is to be based on, of all things, a Jack Chick tract. If you don’t know Jack (Chick, that is) then you’re definitely missing out. This reclusive hyper-fundamentalist Christian has been churning out cartoon pamphlets for the last 45 years (or […]
Still more evangelistic tracts so bad that they’re good
This past Saturday a knock came on my door. I opened the door to two slightly nervous young men. One of them immediately took the lead, introducing himself as the representative of a new Baptist church just starting up in the area. He then held out a tract for me to take. I glanced down. […]
Does God trick people into hell? Lessons from Jack Chick
When I was growing up I used to search the large tract rack in our church’s foyer. The rack had hundreds of tracts stuffed together in a haphazard mess. The goal of the search? The coveted Chick tract. Jack Chick was (and is?) a mysterious, reclusive individual who reportedly lived (lives?) in Southern California and spent […]
Christians and the sin of hating homosexuals
In “Why conservatism is riskier than you might think” I pointed out that those who maintain the status quo are sticking their necks out like everybody else given that the status quo is sometimes wrong. (When you think about it this is so blindingly obvious that it is a surprise we should need to be reminded of […]
