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Somebody Goofed comes alive: Fundamentalism like you’ve never seen it before

December 14, 2016 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evangelism, fundamentalism, Jack Chick, salvation, tract

Vintage Bible Tracts: “Good News”

January 6, 2016 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evangelicalism, evangelism, kitsch, tract

More evangelistic tracts so bad that they’re good

November 6, 2013 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evangelism, tract

Evangelistic tracts so bad that they’re good

September 20, 2013 by Randal

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 […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: evangelism, tract

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