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Media Scroll: Name calling and name shaming + At the movies: “The Forge” in theaters now, “Average Joe” in October
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 08/22/24 Media Scroll: Ugly stuff. Two items from The New York Post resonated with me this week. Under the headline “Led by Obama, Democrats schoolyard tactics mirror Trump‘s trash-talking tactics,”columnist Bethany Mandel argues that the Kamala Harris Campaign is engaging in exactly the kind…
Cultural guilt is a powerful political weapon
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 08/14/24 Everything is your fault. Overall, you’re quite deplorable – and every good person agrees with me. Those are pretty much the claims of every purveyor or negative religion throughout the millennia toward those who don’t believe exactly as they do (and, let me…
President Biden casts partisan doubt on peaceful transfer of power
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 08/09/24President Biden casts doubt on peaceful transfer of power How did we get here? Interviewed by CBS News, the former presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee said he’s not at all sure they’ll be a peaceful transfer of power in January if Trump wins the…
The dehumanizing of Donald Trump + “Disciples in the Moonlight” imagines dystopian world where The Bible is banned
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John W. Kennedy
Here’s the latest from the crossroads of faith, media & culture: 07/16/24 It was on September 15th, 2016 when Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon had the audacity to humanize Donald Trump by playfully mussing the then GOP presidential candidate’s hair. Fallon quickly came under (figurative) fire for having the audacity to humanize the man and…
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