The Sectarian Review Danny Anderson

Today, Danny talks with Dr. Frederick L. Downing, scholar and editor of a new book for Plough Books called The Inconvenient Gospel. The book is a collection of writings by Clarence Jordan, founder of the famous Koinonia Farm in Georgia. Downing was a pioneer in the Civil Rights Movement and ran into vitriolic opposition from his fellow Southern Christians. Downing discusses how Jordan's theology and activism was years ahead of his time and how mainstream Christianity has finally come around to his thinking on these issues.
More on the book as well as purchasing options, can be found here: https://www.plough.com/en/topics/community/intentional-community/inconvenient-gospel
Here is the contact info for Koinonia Farm:
koinoniafarm.org   1324 GA-49, Americus, GA 31719   229 924-0391
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The 2022 Christian Humanist Halloween crossover is here! This year, Nathan Gilmour and Carter Smith-Stepper join Danny Anderson for a discussion of John Carpenter's under-rated classic Prince of Darkness. The film presents an alternative theological universe in which Satan has spent millenia as the prisoner of a secret sect of the Catholic Church. As he begins to stir, a group of academics, along with a priest, join together to try and stop him from bringing his father, an ancient dark god, back to Earth. 
The film has heavy Lovecraftian themes and Carter, Nathan, and Danny have a spirited (and largely unresolved) theological debate about cosmic horror. 
Update:
Danny's article "John Carpenter and the Origin of Evil" for Pop Culture and Theology: https://popularcultureandtheology.com/2022/10/31/john-carpenter-and-the-origins-of-evil/
 

Returning to the today is C. Derick Varn. This time he joins Danny Anderson to discuss the unique and incredible musical career of British singer-songwriter Elvis Costello. Emerging out the British pub rock, punk, and New Wave scenes, Costello forged an almost unparallelled career of musical variation and experimentation. Varn and Anderson discuss what makes him so important. 
Links
Varn Vlog https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMuZYE1Q9yNpzn4dzsPtmcQ
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This week, Arthur Aghajanian joins the show for a fascinating discussion of mystical, contemplative traditions in Christianity. Part of the discussion is the role that liminality, or experiences at the margins, play in building a deeper, non-credal faith. A great discussion about liminality and filmgoing is included. A real treat, for Danny.
Links:
Arthur's twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtAghajanian
Arthur's website, Image and Faith: https://www.imageandfaith.com/
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This episode, we take another look at the power of comics for teaching. This time, Dr. Justin Martin, Assistant Professor of Psychology at Whitworth University, joins the show to discuss Black Panther and how comics can help us learn about moral development and civics education. A lot to unpack here and a lot to learn.
Links:
Dr. Martin's Academia.edu page
Justin's Twitter
R-Squared Comicz
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This week, historian and teacher Jonathan Wilson returns to the show to discuss Francis Schaeffer's influential documentary series How Should We Then Live? Long before the Benedict Option, Schaeffer offered Christians a grand narrative of societal decline and put forth a call for "Bible Believing" Christians to rescue society from decadence. In 2021, Dr. Wilson wrote a series of blog posts about the series, exploring its historical method and paranoid worldview. He joins us today to explain. 
Links:
How Should We Then Live Bluebook Life series by Jonathan Wilson
How Should We Then Live? on YouTube  https://labri.org/resources/how-should-we-then-live-series/
Sarah Edwards, "Sharing the Bad News: Regretting Francis Schaeffer's 'How Should We Then Live,' Forty Years On"  https://thebaffler.com/latest/should-live-schaeffer-edwards 
Barry Hankins, Francis Schaeffer and the Shaping of Evangelical America  https://www.eerdmans.com/Products/6389/francis-schaeffer-and-the-shaping-of-evangelical-america.aspx
Frank Schaeffer, Crazy for God: How I Grew Up as One of the Elect, Helped Found the Religious Right, and Lived to Take All (or Almost All) of It Back  https://www.dacapopress.com/titles/frank-schaeffer/crazy-for-god/9780306817502/
Edith Schaeffer, L'Abri (New Expanded Edition)  https://www.crossway.org/books/labri-tpb/
L'Abri Fellowship International as it exists today  https://labri.org/
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