'Theology for the Art Bell Crowd'

I resemble that remark, especially since I went on a cruise in August 1996 to Scandinavia and Russia with a group sponsored by Art Bell.



I Just Couldn't Look Away: The Crazed, Cranky, Captivating Christianity of Dr. Gene Scott

I couldn't look away either, although usually I was listening on shortwave, but I never "got on the telephone" to give him any money. I kept meaning to as Scott was way more entertaining than any NPR station I've ever listened to (I never got around to sending them any money either), but I believe in giving locally. I don't even like my own church's emphasis on foreign or "international" (as they call them now) missionaries or even so-called "home" (North American) missionaries. I think the pastor won't be emphasizing this as much in the future now that he has settled in for the long haul and is more focused on building a "megachurch" here in downtown Podunk. Good luck with that, preacher. Let me know how that turns out. Better fleece the flock before your lord Bush does away with Social Security. That's the only "fleece" a lot of your members have.

It is rude to try to convert people. It makes them feel inferior to you. I don't feel superior to anyone else, so why should I do something that I know will make them feel inferior to me?