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+ christianity, diana butler bass, mewithoutyou, mineral, music, religion, stavesacre, worship

“Worship is an experience that transforms the heart”: Songs That Bring Me to Worship

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Over the past few years, my reading habits oscillate from fiction and graphic novels to history to religion and beyond. Sometimes I have a plan for what I want to read next, and sometimes a book just falls into my hands, as if out of nowhere. The latter is what happened recently when I picked up Diana Butler Bass’ Christianity for the Rest of Us: … Read More “Worship is an experience that transforms the heart”: Songs That Bring Me to Worship

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+ bible, christianity, jesus christ, paul, religion

What is Our Obligation to Others?

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No matter what, I always encounter ideas and behaviors that I can’t, for the life of me, wrap my head around. During college, chemistry was the discipline I just couldn’t understand, and my inability to grasp it led me to change my major, moving me towards education, a path I never thought I’d take. It’s one thing to have trouble understanding something like chemistry, … Read More What is Our Obligation to Others?

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+ Brent Eric Anderson, Chris Claremont, comics, jerry Farwell, marvel comics, moral majority, x-men, X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

Using the Bible to Justify Blinding Hate in “X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills”

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The connections between the Moral Majority’s Jerry Falwell and Reverend William Stryker in Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson’s X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills is pretty apparent. I wrote about this in my previous post, and a few years back I pointed out how the graphic novel ties itself to the historical violence enacted against African Americans and others in the United States. Today, I … Read More Using the Bible to Justify Blinding Hate in “X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills”

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+ Brent Eric Anderson, Chris Claremont, comics, jerry Farwell, marvel comics, moral majority, religion, x-men, X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills

The Moral Majority and “X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills”

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Writing about the lynching of Mark and Jill, two Black children, at the beginning of Chris Claremont and Brent Anderson’s X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills, John Jennings points out the use of the word “Mutie,” a label that the Purifiers put onto the dangling bodies of the two children. Jennings writes, “the slur “MUTIE” has come to represent for many, all racial, ethnic, homophobic and … Read More The Moral Majority and “X-Men: God Loves, Man Kills”

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+ alan moore, bible, comics, dave gibbons, dc comics, graphic novels, religion, superhero, watchmen

“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” The Role of the Divine in “Watchmen”

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A few overarching themes appear in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ Watchmen, each involving our connections with the divine and with others who inhabit the world with us. Recently, I wrote some about this, specifically with Dr. Manhattan’s thoughts about the divine and humanity. Today, I want to continue examining these themes, notably through the use of Genesis 18: 25 at the end of Chapter III … Read More “Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?” The Role of the Divine in “Watchmen”

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