The Blacklisted Bible

Author : Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666706841
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blacklisted Bible written by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choosing ten films that were considered "suspicious," "un-American," or even "dangerous" by the conservative media, and especially the infamous "House Un-American Affairs Committee" (HUAC) between 1947-1953, each chapter briefly outlines how progressive Christians should have supported the message of the film rather than condemned it. Each chapter explains why the film was considered controversial, and then proposes a number of arguments drawing heavily on Scripture, arguing that Christians should have, and still should, consider these films about social justice issues to be deeply biblical, and not "un-American." Intended for an adult education series, this book can serve as a kind of "handbook" for a church or parish "Film Series" that raises serious questions of social justice and Christian response.

Author : Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666706825
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blacklisted Bible written by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-03-24 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choosing ten films that were considered “suspicious,” “un-American,” or even “dangerous” by the conservative media, and especially the infamous “House Un-American Affairs Committee” (HUAC) between 1947–1953, each chapter briefly outlines how progressive Christians should have supported the message of the film rather than condemned it. Each chapter explains why the film was considered controversial, and then proposes a number of arguments drawing heavily on Scripture, arguing that Christians should have, and still should, consider these films about social justice issues to be deeply biblical, and not “un-American.” Intended for an adult education series, this book can serve as a kind of “handbook” for a church or parish “Film Series” that raises serious questions of social justice and Christian response.

Author : Jason Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593939175
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Channels written by Jason Hill and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-06 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the HARDBACK version. Comments from Un-Blacklisted Celebrities "Things that they would think up had no value. The would print them and then the sponsors and the networks wouldn't hire you if your name was even mentioned in one of those rags. You were thoroughly blacklisted." Shirley Mitchel "They ruined a lot of lives. It was a terrible, terrible thing." George Fenneman "Counterattack people and many others were making it hard on nearly everyone." Ralph Bellamy "Writers had to use a front because they couldn't get hired. After all, they had families to support." Evelyn Keyes "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, America dies." Edward R. Murrow Jason Hill, Author Life for Jason Hill has always been interesting. Twenty years a commercial pilot, including movies . . . twenty-five years in recording and radio. His long time mentor was Norman Corwin, who finally convinced him to write. Mr. Hill's published and upcoming works include Life in the Past Lane-Volumes One, Two & Three: and some poetry. He lives in the Chicago area.

Author : Jason Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781593939168
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Channels written by Jason Hill and published by . This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comments from Un-Blacklisted Celebrities "Things that they would think up had no value. The would print them and then the sponsors and the networks wouldn't hire you if your name was even mentioned in one of those rags. You were thoroughly blacklisted." Shirley Mitchel "They ruined a lot of lives. It was a terrible, terrible thing." George Fenneman "Counterattack people and many others were making it hard on nearly everyone." Ralph Bellamy "Writers had to use a front because they couldn't get hired. After all, they had families to support." Evelyn Keyes "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, America dies." Edward R. Murrow Jason Hill, Author Life for Jason Hill has always been interesting. Twenty years a commercial pilot, including movies . . . twenty-five years in recording and radio. His long time mentor was Norman Corwin, who finally convinced him to write. Mr. Hill's published and upcoming works include Life in the Past Lane-Volumes One, Two & Three: and some poetry. He lives in the Chicago area.

Author : Daniel L. Smith-Christopher
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567707636
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Keir Hardie, the Bible, and Christian Socialism written by Daniel L. Smith-Christopher and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel L. Smith-Christopher focuses on the life and efforts of Keir Hardie, one of the founders of the UK Labour Party and one of the foremost figureheads of trade unionism. Drawing upon the work of two contemporary and significant American theorists-Herbert Gutman's classic essay on “Working-Class Religion” and Michael Gold's call for “Proletarian Literature”-Smith-Christopher marries British and American historical and theoretical debates to argue that Hardie's work is surely the quintessential example of a “proletarian exegesis” of the Bible. Beginning with a summary of the major events in Hardie's life, Smith-Christopher draws both upon existing biographies and more recent historical discussions that question assumption of British social history. He then reviews previous debates upon the influence of Hardie's own Christian faith upon his journalistic output, and assesses three Christian Socialists whose work was advertised and reviewed by Hardie himself: Dennis Hird, John Morrison Davidson, and Caroline Martyn. Smith-Christopher proceeds to Hardie's copious writings, both for The Labour Leader and separately published lectures, pamphlets, and somewhat longer works of autobiography and comment. Highlighting Hardie's tendency to cite favorite texts (heavily from the Gospels and James, but also some notable Old Testament discussions), Smith-Christopher proves Hardie's serious discussion of these texts beyond mere political rhetoric; concluding by comparing a selection of Hardie's favorite Biblical arguments with contemporary research in Biblical Studies about these same passages, evaluating the problems and possibilities of proposing a “Proletarian Exegesis”.

Author : M. Stanton Evans
Publisher : Forum Books
ISBN 13 : 0307238660
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blacklisted by History written by M. Stanton Evans and published by Forum Books. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accused of creating a bogus Red Scare and smearing countless innocent victims in a five-year reign of terror, Senator Joseph McCarthy is universally remembered as a demagogue, a bully, and a liar. History has judged him such a loathsome figure that even today, a half century after his death, his name remains synonymous with witch hunts. But that conventional image is all wrong, as veteran journalist and author M. Stanton Evans reveals in this groundbreaking book. The long-awaited Blacklisted by History, based on six years of intensive research, dismantles the myths surrounding Joe McCarthy and his campaign to unmask Communists, Soviet agents, and flagrant loyalty risks working within the U.S. government. Evans’s revelations completely overturn our understanding of McCarthy, McCarthyism, and the Cold War. Drawing on primary sources—including never-before-published government records and FBI files, as well as recent research gleaned from Soviet archives and intercepted transmissions between Moscow spymasters and their agents in the United States—Evans presents irrefutable evidence of a relentless Communist drive to penetrate our government, influence its policies, and steal its secrets. Most shocking of all, he shows that U.S. officials supposedly guarding against this danger not only let it happen but actively covered up the penetration. All of this was precisely as Joe McCarthy contended.Blacklisted by History shows, for instance, that the FBI knew as early as 1942 that J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the atomic bomb project, had been identified by Communist leaders as a party member; that high-level U.S. officials were warned that Alger Hiss was a Soviet spy almost a decade before the Hiss case became a public scandal; that a cabal of White House, Justice Department, and State Department officials lied about and covered up the Amerasia spy case; and that the State Department had been heavily penetrated by Communists and Soviet agents before McCarthy came on the scene.Evans also shows that practically everything we’ve been told about McCarthy is false, including conventional treatment of the famous 1950 speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, that launched the McCarthy era (“I have here in my hand . . .”), the Senate hearings that casually dismissed his charges, the matter of leading McCarthy suspect Owen Lattimore, the Annie Lee Moss case, the Army-McCarthy hearings, and much more. In the end, Senator McCarthy was censured by his colleagues and condemned by the press and historians. But as Evans writes, “The real Joe McCarthy has vanished into the mists of fable and recycled error, so that it takes the equivalent of a dragnet search to find him.” Blacklisted by History provides the first accurate account of what McCarthy did and, more broadly, what happened to America during the Cold War. It is a revealing exposé of the forces that distorted our national policy in that conflict and our understanding of its history since.

Author : Jeff Smith
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520280687
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist written by Jeff Smith and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2014-03-26 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist examines the long-term reception of several key American films released during the postwar period, focusing on the two main critical lenses used in the interpretation of these films: propaganda and allegory. Produced in response to the hearings held by the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) that resulted in the Hollywood blacklist, these films’ ideological message and rhetorical effectiveness was often muddled by the inherent difficulties in dramatizing villains defined by their thoughts and belief systems rather than their actions. Whereas anti-Communist propaganda films offered explicit political exhortation, allegory was the preferred vehicle for veiled or hidden political comment in many police procedurals, historical films, Westerns, and science fiction films. Jeff Smith examines the way that particular heuristics, such as the mental availability of exemplars and the effects of framing, have encouraged critics to match filmic elements to contemporaneous historical events, persons, and policies. In charting the development of these particular readings, Film Criticism, the Cold War, and the Blacklist features case studies of many canonical Cold War titles, including The Red Menace, On the Waterfront, The Robe, High Noon, and Invasion of the Body Snatchers.

Author : Theron D Williams
Publisher : Bible Is Black History Institute, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bible is Black History written by Theron D Williams and published by Bible Is Black History Institute, LLC. This book was released on 2022-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age when younger African-American Christians are asking tough questions that previous generations would dare not ask. This generation doesn't hesitate to question the validity of the Scriptures, the efficacy of the church, and even the historicity of Jesus. Young people are becoming increasingly curious about what role, if any, did people of African descent play in biblical history? Or, if the Bible is devoid of Black presence, and is merely a book by Europeans, about Europeans and for Europeans to the exclusion of other races and ethnicities? Dr. Theron D. Williams makes a significant contribution to this conversation by answering the difficult questions this generation fearlessly poses. Dr. Williams uses facts from the Bible, well-respected historians, scientists, and DNA evidence to prove that Black people comprised the biblical Israelite community. He also shares historical images from the ancient catacombs that vividly depict the true likeness of the biblical Israelites. This book does not change the biblical text, but it will change how you understand it.This Second Edition provides updated information and further elucidation of key concepts. Also, at the encouragement of readership, this edition expands some of the ideas and addresses concerns my readership felt pertinent to this topic.

Author : Creation Liberty Evangelism
Publisher : Creation Liberty Evangelism
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 15 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why I Use a King James Bible written by Creation Liberty Evangelism and published by Creation Liberty Evangelism. This book was released on 2014-07-19 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did we end up with so many English versions of the Bible, and why is the King James superior?

Author : Julia C. Morse
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501761528
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bankers' Blacklist written by Julia C. Morse and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Banker's Blacklist, Julia C. Morse demonstrates how the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) has enlisted global banks in the effort to keep "bad money" out of the financial system, in the process drastically altering the domestic policy landscape and transforming banking worldwide. Trillions of dollars flow across borders through the banking system every day. While bank-to-bank transfers facilitate trade and investment, they also provide opportunities for criminals and terrorists to move money around the globe. To address this vulnerability, large economies work together through an international standard-setting body, the FATF, to shift laws and regulations on combating illicit financial flows. Morse examines how this international organization has achieved such impact, arguing that it relies on the power of unofficial market enforcement—a process whereby market actors punish countries that fail to meet international standards. The FATF produces a public noncomplier list, which banks around the world use to shift resources and services away from listed countries. As banks restrict cross-border lending, the domestic banking sector in listed countries advocates strongly for new laws and regulations, ultimately leading to deep and significant compliance improvements. The Bankers' Blacklist offers lessons about the peril and power of globalized finance, revealing new insights into how some of today's most pressing international cooperation challenges might be addressed.