Bethany Moreton, “To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free...
Bethany Moreton, To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise (Harvard, 2009). Wal-Mart Moms forged today’s America. It seems a cheap compliment to call a book smart and...
View ArticleLaHaye and Jenkins, “Left Behind” (1995)
Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, Left Behind: A Novel of Earth’s Last Days (1995). Suddenly, without explanation, people disappear en masse. Cars crash into medians, driverless. Passengers vanish from...
View ArticleJason Bivins, “Religion of Fear” (2008)
Jason Bivins, Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism (2008) Grant Wacker insists that students in his seminars learn to distinguish between what is important and what...
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Clarence Larkin Ad from Moody Monthly, September 1920.
Finding this from 1920 is what dissertation research is all about. Clarence Larkin’s Bible prophecy charts never looked so enticing. “The Greatest Book on Dispensational Truth in the World!” Now with...
View ArticleA Fundamentalist Temperance Song
Homer Rodeheaver served as song leader for the famous fundamentalist revivalist Billy Sunday. “Rody,” as friends called him, was one of the first people ever to record gospel music. Believe it or not,...
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Throwback Thursday – Vintage Advertising – Dr. Price’s Cream Baking Powder, 1898
This is without a doubt the most bombastic advertisement I’ve ever seen for an unromantic product. I, for one, would take great comfort in knowing that my cookies contained World’s Fair award-winning...
View ArticleAHA 2015 – Poster
Here’s the poster presentation created by Brendan Pietsch and A.T. Coates for the 2015 AHA Annual Meeting, NYC. Thanks for visiting! PDF Download — Coates and Pietsch – Dispensational Charts
View ArticlePhonograph Pastors, 1919
Thoughts on the phonograph and techno-preachers from Literary Digest, 1919. After comparing a Presbyterian conference to H.G. Wells’s “The Sleeper Awakes,” the author suggests that phonographic...
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Broadcasting Fundamentalism: A Telephone Revival
A Telephone Revival, 1912 This excerpt from the industry journal Telephony (Vol. 62, No. 21, p.644) recounts the story of a revival in Anson, Texas. The revival was broadcast by telephone. Yep,...
View ArticleNew Wonder Shown (Broadcasting)
Taken from Moody Monthly, Vol 22, Iss 7, p948 NEW WONDER SHOWN Here is the story of a wonderful scientific experiment filled with sentiment — a further development of the telephone in your home —...
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