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 […]
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Vintage Bible Tracts: “Good News”
The other day I came across a bundle of tracts from my youth thirty years ago. Alas, there were no Jack Chick tracts among them. But there was this beauty, a children’s version of the Four Spiritual Laws: A definite classic, “Good News” shares the gospel by way of a glove where each of the […]
More evangelistic tracts so bad that they’re good
There is no shortage of wonderfully bad evangelistic tracts out there, and each deserves to be celebrated for its own unique badness. For the first installment of this celebratory series click here. This time we have a wonderful tract which I received several years ago and have kept in my desk ever since. It is […]
Evangelistic tracts so bad that they’re good
I grew up in a fundamentalist-evangelical Christian subculture that understood evangelism to consist of small pieces of folded paper that you handed out to unsuspecting passerby or planted strategically in public washrooms. I speak, of course, of the hallowed tract, a short, pithy statement of Christian conviction. The truth is, however, that people are bombarded with literally […]
