{"id":3770,"date":"2015-07-20T07:23:45","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2015-07-20T07:23:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:23:45","slug":"top-five-posts-forgiveness-flags-and-digital-humanities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/rhetoricraceandreligion\/2015\/07\/top-five-posts-forgiveness-flags-and-digital-humanities.html","title":{"rendered":"Top Five Posts: Forgiveness, Flags, and Digital Humanities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Here are the top posts for the week of July 13-19, 2015 on the Rhetoric Race and Religion Blog. We ask that you share this with others.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0We Have to Dismantle White Supremacy Before We Can Forgive<\/a><\/p>\n

by\u00a0Leah C.K. Lewis<\/p>\n

Black\u2014and usually Christian\u2014forgiveness given freely, publicly, and without demand for recourse and redress of injury is exceedingly problematic in our communal quest for justice\u2014personal and social. African Americans historically have been conditioned to humble ourselves at the altar of white supremacy. This must stop.<\/p>\n

In order to bend the\u00a0arc of the moral universe<\/b><\/a>\u00a0toward our equitable and humane treatment, African Americans must stop kowtowing and being complicit in our own dehumanization and subjugation. As victims of terror, we have absolutely nothing to be contrite about.<\/p>\n

The Church, of which I am currently a part, must stop teaching a faux-narrative that makes weaklings out of believers. Narratives that focus on forgiveness, but not on self-actualization, the development and use of power, and offender accountability fail to produce the type of happy, healthy, whole practitioners that the Gospel intends. Our focus ought to be in developing and cultivating good old fashion power. Yes, power is a paradigm promoted by Jesus Christ, that Northeast African Palestinian Jew.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0The Argument *Against* the Multicultural Church<\/a><\/p>\n

by\u00a0Katelin Hansen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

If churches do enter into a journey of multicultural worship, it is essential that safe refuge be available for congregants of color. This is also why it is important that when such endeavors are undertaken, they not ultimately be headed by white pastors and leaders (and they so often are). It\u2019s why we must hedge toward the marginalized culture in planning worship services and events, rather than compromising squarely in the middle. Because there is no \u2018happy medium\u2019 when one group is so disproportionately abused.<\/span><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0R3 and the Digital Humanities: The Henry McNeal Turner Project<\/a><\/p>\n

by Andre E. Johnson<\/p>\n

I discovered Henry McNeal Turner by accident. While starting a seminar class in rhetorical criticism and trying to hone in on a dissertation topic, I ran across a speech delivered by Turner. He delivered the speech on the floor of the Georgia House of Representatives as the House debated whether African Americans could hold office in the state of Georgia. I remember reading the speech and wondering if anyone had studied Turner\u2019s rhetoric.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, there was a problem. Since Turner lived during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, it was my belief that texts to study Turner would be difficult to find. Turner, like many of his contemporaries during this time, spoke extemporaneously\u2014not from notes or prepared texts. Moreover, unlike many other speakers during this time, Turner did not travel with a stenographer\u2014or someone who could have written what Turner said for later publication. Going into my project, I only hoped there were enough texts to do a solid dissertation.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0R3 Reflections: Confederate Flags and Cosby<\/a><\/p>\n

by\u00a0Doctah Lele,\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0Cicely Wilson<\/a>,\u00a0Alma Faith Crawford<\/a>, and\u00a0Victoria D Parker<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t think I would be so emotional watching the\u00a0<\/span>\u202a#\u200e<\/span>Confederate\u202c<\/span><\/a>\u00a0flag\u2019s removal. But then, I should think it not strange. The ancestral blood of my Lowcountry peeps ripped from the shores of the West Indies and West Africa still runs warm in my veins. The symbol that reminded them \u201cya\u2019ll ain\u2019t neva gon be free\u201d reminded me of the same.\u00a0<\/span>While some onlookers were chanting secular spirit songs, I saw some people worship. Not worshipping the moment, but a God who does all things well. We couldn\u2019t understand it two weeks ago, but God knew there would be glory in this story.\u00a0<\/span>Days of grieving are still ahead for\u00a0<\/span>\u202a#\u200e<\/span>Charleston\u202c<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and family members of the<\/span>\u202a#\u200e<\/span>Emanuel9\u202c<\/span><\/a>. But this I do know, evil did not have the final say! And what the enemy meant for evil\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

40 women cannot be wrong. I was watching FoxNews (pray I don\u2019t go to hell..lol) in which they had Jimmy JJ Walker and his words\u2026he believed that Cosby was perhaps a Jekel and Hyde type because he never saw this character in Cosby. It is so sad that w<\/span><\/span>e tend to always believe the male. I never told any one when it happened to me who was going to believe a little kid against an almost grown man? But I must say he got his because later in his life he was killed by his wife. But my spirit had to be freed and I learned to journal. I promised myself I would always believe her or him in the event if sexual misconduct against her or him\u00a0esp.if<\/span>\u00a0they are minors and her just because she is.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

5.\u00a0Confessions of a Woman Who Preaches: On Being a Sacred Listening Partner<\/a><\/p>\n

by\u00a0Traci Blackmon<\/a><\/p>\n

I have walked with women who left home, left school, left church, left town\u2026because some sadistic pervert violated their bodies.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve taught bible studies about the silent abuse of women intertwined and ignored in sacred text. I\u2019ve watched women run out of the room, burst into tears, and even experience mental regression because of the land mines in their memories.<\/p>\n

I listened to stories of incest and molestation in childhood that is still bringing grown women to their knees. I\u2019ve talked to prostitutes who first trick was someone who should have been the first to teach them their worth.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve sat with women as they got rape tested and women who held their breath hoping they were not pregnant.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard so much that I needed therapy to clear my head, heart, and soul.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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