"This form of Christianity with no justice and no compassion must be rejected. It’s not worth preserving and it is not liberative, prophetic, and Christ-centered to emancipate Black people and people of color in this nation. Its basic premise is the denial of Black humanity and dignity, and Black rights and future possibilities in this society."
good guys FIF
See also the documentary "God's Cartoonist - The Comic Crusade of Jack Chick":
An interview with Sarah Kernochan about making and later finding the negatives for the Marjoe documentary.
Putting all of these movies on my to-watch list.
The religion founded by John the Baptist?
Pete Davis talks to Josh Davis of the newly-founded Institute for Christian Socialism. Together, they talk about the intertwined history of left movements and Christianity.
Charles Monroe Sheldon (February 26, 1857, Wellsville, New York – February 24, 1946, Topeka, Kansas) was an American Congregationalist minister and leader of the Social Gospel movement. His novel, In His Steps, introduced the principle of "What Would Jesus Do?" which articulated an approach to Christian theology that became popular at the turn of the 20th century and had a revival almost one hundred years later.
The Social Gospel was a movement in Protestantism that applied Christian ethics to social problems, especially issues of social justice such as economic inequality, poverty, alcoholism, crime, racial tensions, slums, unclean environment, child labor, lack of unionization, poor schools, and the dangers of war. It was most prominent in the early-20th-century United States and Canada. Theologically, the Social Gospelers sought to put into practice the Lord's Prayer (Matthew 6:10): "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven".
A look at the gun-worshipping splinter group founded by the youngest son of the late of Sun Myung Moon.
"To Trump, the Bible and the church are not symbols of faith; they are weapons of culture war. And to many of his Christian supporters watching at home, the pandering wasn’t an act of inauthenticity; it was a sign of allegiance—and shared dominance."
The latest Citations Needed podcast discusses Christian movies and they have Franky Schaeffer on as a guest.
"Almost all of the popular evangelical songs that incorporate the Magnificat stop after the first few verses"
Of course there is the Psalters version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT8VoWX2238
This is one of the more recent videos Rich "Beebo" Russel liked on youtube before stealing a plane and crashing it into the Puget Sound in a blaze of glory.
7% of Americans who do NOT believe in heaven DO believe in hell. Those Americans tend to be poor, uneducated, immigrant, and very religious (evangelical protestant).
A Quaker anarchist podcast
A look at the organic farm and ecovillage run by Gabriel of Urantia's group (who I've written about before: http://americancynic.net/log/2012/6/7/gabriel_of_urantia/)
It is encouraging that an intentional community with so much itnellectual baggage has been this successful.