The story, SECRET RADIO, is not a scholarly work but rather an intense novel that captures what life is really like in one of these IFB, KJB, legalistic schools.

For people trying to grasp the culture, it’s a worthy read. But again, it’s not going to give you footnotes or cross references. Then again, it does present what the WOMEN in IFB-KJB circles have to endure, and that’s a topic that I have not yet seen addressed by any preachers, although I know God remembers the abuse and seduction.

SECRET RADIO is now available in hard copy at this URL, http://www.cafepress.com/cp/prod.aspx?p=secretradio.13333423

As of April 19, the sequel to SECRET RADIO is scheduled to be presented on my blog. This story, titled A STANDARD CHRISTIAN, is about the time after college for so many HAC, OBC, TBC, etc., graduates, when real life hits them and they find they have no real faith because all their beliefs are centered in man and not Christ.

The URL for A STANDARD CHRISTIAN is http://home.earthlink.net/~graceblog/blogger.htm

Remember, the sequel does not begin until April 19, and it’s not as descriptive of the IFB-KJB culture as its predecessor, SECRET RADIO (however, it is free!). Once people get out of the cult-like schools, their recovery/reaction can vary a lot from everybody else’s.

So, if you can afford about $25 for a novel that will thrust you into that culture and give you insights into the thinking, errors, and way of life of the IFB-KJB strata of Hyles and his ilk, I strongly recommend SECRET RADIO. It certainly garnered many grateful comments and emails from survivors, and it culled a good handful of angry retorts as well from preachers who support that culture.

Jim Owen – The Hidden History of the Historic Fundamentalists, 1933-1948 Reconsidering the Historic Fundamentalists’ Response to the Upheavals, Hardship, and Horrors of the 1930s and 1940s

Richard J. Mouw – The Smell of Sawdust: What Evangelicals Can Learn from Their Fundamentalist Heritage

Timothy George ed. – Pilgrams on the Sawdust Trail; Evangelical Ecumenism and the Quest for Christian Identity

By Fundamentalists:
Beale, Pursuit of Purity
Pickering, Biblical Separation & The Tragedy of Compromise
Sidwell, The Dividing Line
McCune, Promise Unfulfilled
Lightner, The Neo Evangelicalism (Dallas prof; written when Dallas was opposed to it)

By Evangelicals:
Marsden, Reforming Fundamentalism
Murray, Evangelicalism Divided
Hart, Deconstructing Evangelicalism
Carpenter, Revive Us Again

On a totally unrelated note, if you DO indeed know the same Christine Edmondson I’m priviledged to have met once upon a time, she is now married and mother to a lovely baby boy, Isaac :o)