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News Round-Up: State of the Christian Movie

By Gwynne Watkins

…re referencing 37 real-life court cases of universities battling Christian students. Can’t wait for that one. Via Buzzfeed’s Adam B. Vary, here’s a chart of Biblical movie box office numbers. “Biblical movie” is liberally defined here, but it’s interesting to note the difference between now and the “golden age” of Biblical epics (1949-1965). And finally, here’s an interesting piece by The Guardian’s Tom Shone, breaking down the obstacles filmmaker…

White Supremacy Erases Its Violence: The Predictable Blaming of Antifa

By Stephen Young

…ions they facilitated or incited—they blame the people who oppose them. My students are always stunned after they read Dr. Carol Anderson’s “Reconstructing Reconstruction” chapter in her indispensable 2016 book White Rage. They learn, often for the first time, that after the American Civil War and then toward the end of Reconstruction, there was a reign of murderous terror by White Supremacists (e.g., the KKK) against Black people who wanted to vo…

Why We Should Teach Theology in the Public University

By Jonathan Sheehan

…ies,” and discover the view that “religion options should be presented [to students] as live options for living their lives,” we have to wonder which religious options are going to be the live ones. All of them? The common default to Christianity (occasionally Judaism) with regard to theology forces us to ask: isn’t theology simply too parochial for a public university? Next, whatever the intrinsic value of any particular theological point of view…

Countering the “Countering Violent Extremism” Program

By Elizabeth Shakman Hurd

…is a new State Department-sponsored program that enlists American college students to combat online extremism. Avi Asher-Schapiro described the scene at a recent P2P event in Washington for VICE News: CJ Drew is a senior at West Point, and like most college students he checks Facebook incessantly—”every couple hours,” he says. But unlike his peers, he’s not counting likes, or scouring for cleavage. CJ is trying to lure would-be-jihadists into con…

This Year’s Best Books in African American Religion

By Jonathan L. Walton

…es courses, I know first-hand that this text is engaging and accessible to students at all levels. Without a doubt, this book is a must for any course on the prophet from Great Barrington! 8. John Giggie, After Redemption: Jim Crow and the Transformation of African American Religion in the Delta, 1875-1915, Oxford University Press, November, 2007 Historian John Giggie scours newspapers, black denominational publications and unpublished WPA investi…

Christian Nationalism is Authentically Christian — And According to a New Poll Most White Evangelicals are Supporters

By Chrissy Stroop

…Bless the USA” as the grand finale of our school talent shows. High school students were also put to work mailing out right-wing voter guides on school time, while elementary students dutifully pledged allegiance to the American flag, the Christian flag, and the Bible each morning. I’ve belabored the point here at RD before, and it’s worth stating again: the political activities and ideology were an integral part of our religion, just as our Chris…

The (Mostly Catholic) Anti-Abortion Roe v. Wade Schlep

By Mary E. Hunt

…to DC for the occasion. The younger ones—including middle and high school students—are given days off by their Catholic schools to enjoy a school sponsored (and in some cases paid for) trip to the Nation’s Capital. The older ones are college students who make a road trip of it, knowing that a night on a church floor and a day that begins with mass at the Verizon Center is a good way to meet (do they hook up, one wonders) other young people with s…

“Mass Graves, Child Soldiers” and a Crusading Army of International Evangelists

By Rosalind I. J. Hackett and Randal L. Hepner

…with crowds swelling for the final weekend days (although nowhere near the numbers of 120,000 the organizers claimed for the Saturday evening—local press estimated no more than 10-12,000). Certainly one of the main attractions was the energetic local gospel music performed every night for hours before the preaching and healing began. Not only did it get us and our students dancing at the ground, but we could continue to enjoy its rousing sounds fr…

The Book David Barton Doesn’t Want You To Read

By Michael Coulter

…ess you understand the historical context. Coulter: In the past few years students have come to me with claims made by Barton, many of which seemed wrong, but since Barton isn’t taken seriously in the academy, I didn’t take him seriously. But as there were more and more students and others who were reading Barton, it seemed that he needed to be taken seriously and carefully critiqued. What sealed the deal for wanting to offer a lengthy critique o…

Bearing Witness: The Work of Hospital Chaplains

By Wendy Cadge

…mmittees, work with organ donations, and help to train medical and nursing students. Despite this work, health care chaplains have not made consistent contributions to broader public conversations about religion, spirituality, health, and medicine in the contemporary United States. This results, in part, from their small numbers. Researchers estimate that there are 10,000 health care chaplains across the country. Colleagues and I found that betwee…