Welcome to Banned Books Week 2018! For the third year in a row, the show honors Banned Books Week with a show about literacy. This time, Jay Eldred and Danny discuss the wonders and joys of indie bookstores. Plus a chance for you to give some love to your favorite independent bookseller (head to the Sectarian Review Facebook page and give us some links and memories). Why are small indie bookstores so important to our society? Jay and Danny discuss community-building, the act of slowness in a world of immediacy, and these stores’ role in resisting censorship and book-banning. Also, what is so aesthetically pleasing about a little cat in a bookshop? All this and more.
Links: Snowball Bookshop in Barberton, Ohio Quail Ridge Books in Raleigh, NC Mac’s Back’s in Cleveland, Ohio The Strand Bookstore in New York, NY
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Of course we had to cover Alex Jones's banishment from social media. Over the last few weeks, the conspiratorial chickens of Alex Jones's InfoWars have come home to roost. Jones, in one swell foop was banned from Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Facebook, Stitcher, and apparently even pornography channels. Joining the show today is our resident conspiracy enthusiast, Jordan Poss, veteran of these types of Sectarian Review episodes. Jordan and Danny discuss the background of the controversy and explore why they are so uncomfortable with Jones's fate. Jordan brings a conservative perspective, while Danny relies on a leftist critique of the banishment, but both end up drawing the same conclusions: how comfortable are we letting markets decide who has a platform? All this and much more.
Links: ACLU Warns Against Worrisome Alex Jones Ban Facebook Can't Be 'Ministry of Truth' Twitter Decides to Help Alex Jones Spread Lies The requisite "Vox Explains Everything" article When the Content Police Came for the Babylon Bee 
For the annual Sectarian Review “Banned Books Week” show, Danny is joined by Jay Eldred and Megan Von Bergen to discuss the Christian Impulse to boycott or ban. What drives people of faith to avoid businesses and works of art in adherence to the faith? Are there occasions when this impulse is appropriate? As always the Sectarian Review gang try to take a nuanced approach to such questions.
Topics: Teaching controversial material at Faith-Based institutions Banning art versus boycotting companies Trigger warnings and teaching Alan Moore Moral Superiority and the motivation for avoiding art Translating Calvin and Ovid at the same time Pitching our Scandal of the Evangelical Mind episode Evangelical separatism and Bob Jones Scorsese's Last Temptation of Christ The Lion King The Lego Movie Aladdin The gay Beauty and the Beast Procter and Gamble (thanks Brett Chase!) Faith-Driven Consumers! The trade-off between Christianity and capitalism The poor, oppressed Christian’s best defense? Discretionary income Avoidance of the uncomfortable The wisdom of Milton Danny sees your Milton and raises you a Matthew Arnold What things are worth avoiding? Why should Christians wrestle with Taxi Driver? Josh “bringin’ the” Feuerstein rails against Starbucks Paul and meat sacrificed to idols Is there an institutional solution to this problem? The role of unorganized fundamentalism. Alex Jones! Artistic Standards, doctrine, and Wonder Woman Chris Gehrz’s The Pietist Option Rod Dreher and idolization of the family Cleaning the outside of a dirty cup Links: The Faith-Friendly Companies Christians Can ‘Buycott’ This Christmas | The Daily Signal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_hUF76FQ-s Some Dude Josh Feuerstein Goes Full Bonkers on CNN over Starbucks Cups https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti629wLy4vU Christians Need to Stop Boycotting Stuff http://ift.tt/2fgY1J7 Conservatives Urge Boycott of Procter & Gamble http://ift.tt/2uuKb7T Procter & Gamble Awarded $19.25 Million in Satanism Lawsuit http://ift.tt/2oSCCc2 History of Comics Censorship, Part 1 | Comic Book Legal Defense Fund http://ift.tt/ZWrSJe Beauty and the Beast and Boycotts | Think Christian http://ift.tt/2v9ck6m 'Last Temptation' Views Still Coming In : Boycott of 'E.T.' Among Religious Reactions http://ift.tt/2fi1CXl The Lego Movie: One of the most anti-Christian movies ever http://ift.tt/2wieeSg Matthew Arnold’s Culture and Anarchy https://librivox.org/culture-and-anarchy-by-matthew-arnold/ Areopagitica https://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/areopagitica/text.html Alex Jones as Bon Iver https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEoCg4737LU The Pietist Option, by Chris Gehrz and Mark Pattie III https://www.ivpress.com/the-pietist-option In the same vein of “least Christian” movie, but on the flip side, there’s this: (H/T Christian Feminist podcast, which posted this to their FB page): http://www.marilettesanchez.com/marilettesays//wonder-woman-might-be-the-most-accurate-on-screen-depiction-of-biblical-womanhood-and-heres-why  In this special episode, timed to celebrate Banned Books Week 2016, Danny and Jay discuss the importance of books and culture. Why are books so precious, and why should we be vigilant about keeping them with us? What are the motivations of those who would ban and burn books? These questions and a lot more, including recommendations to help the listener celebrate this important yearly event.
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