In “The Good Lord Bird,” Ethan Hawke plays John Brown as an American Cassandra, a misunderstood hero for his time — and our own.Black migrants from the South fueled the expansion of the Black church in cities like Chicago.
Beginning with the creation of a distinctly African American religion in the crucible of slavery and concluding with the place of faith in the Black Lives Matter movement — plus pit stops forand the Asuza Street revival, race records and Black Jesus — to call the four-hour series kaleidoscopic would be to undersell its breadth. Despite its relatively brief engagement with each narrative strand, however, it leaves no doubt in the aggregate that the Black church, as W.E.B.
It’s a lesson that mainstream media outlets, subsumed in a consistent drumbeat of controversies and mea culpas on issues of race, still need to learn. Although the number of Americans unaffiliated with any religion, belief remains a potent source of social, cultural and political currency here, and “evangelicalism” — a word whose very etymology suggests “good news” — has, in many cases, become lazy shorthand not only for white, rural, conservative Protestantism but also for devotion itself.
If the docuseries is an essential counternarrative, then, it is necessarily shadowed by the failures of the dominant one. To hear the Rev. Jeremiah Wright explain the outcry over his infamous, which erupted during the 2008 presidential campaign, is to recognize that what he calls “love this country right or wrong, make America great again” thinking, far from being the province of partisans, has been central to the discussion of “evangelical Christians” for decades.
And as “The Black Church” makes clear, if not quite explicit, the consequence of excluding Black, urban, progressive religion from this discourse — the definition of Black people as faithless, of Black communities as rootless, of Black institutions as powerless, of Black votes as worthless — isn’t merely hypothetical. It never was.
Black or White: NIV Bible doctoring is Not acceptable. American Christianity has a widespread heresy problem like fabulous currently acting pontifex himself. Our Pontifex is still PopeBenedictXVI.
Obama is your church now. 😂
thefilmgoer The most segregated hour of the week is Sunday, during Church, James Baldwin expressed in better words. It is still true.
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thefilmgoer That's one hell of a mouthful
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