When black slaves arrived from Africa, they were not Christian. Today, American African-Americans may well be among the most fervent Christians in the United States. The charismatic leaders of Black American Christians- from Frederick Douglass and Thurgood Marshall (who preached but where not ordained ministers) to Martin Luther Kind, Ralph Abernathy and Jesse Jackson, among ...
Mulan was a modest Walt Disney animated hit that recast a possibly partially true Chinese legend about a young girl who disguised herself as a man in order to join the army. What most people don’t know is that one of the most interesting stories of the American revolution tells almost the exact same story ...
A unique genre of movies has developed: the Mormon Movie. These films are characterized by the fact that the characters are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly called Mormons. These movies are usually made separately from Hollywood and are generally made on small budgets by members of the church, often ...
If you were to ask the people you know if they understand the phrase ‘separation of church and state’, most of them would say that they do. If you pressed them further, they would tell you it means that anything that is religious must be separate from that which is public, or owned or controlled ...
