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Episode 89: Indie Bookstores

9/26/2018

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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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Episode 86: Deplatforming Alex Jones

9/5/2018

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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

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Episode 47: Be Careful, Little Eyes, What you Don't Read

9/21/2017

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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

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Episode 20: Banned Books Week

9/23/2016

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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.

Topics include:
  • Introductions
  • Danny and the black helicopters
  • What leads to bad history? Opposition to Opposing Viewpoints
  • Recording the show at the Mount Aloysius College library
  • Changing roles for libraries
  • Biblioclasm - The destruction or mutilation of books
  • The destructive nature of collecting
  • The fundamentalist fear of books
  • A tomb of books
  • Censorship, then destruction
  • The Bible as objectionable material
  • Donnie Darko, Graham Greene, and public censorship
  • Listening to opposing opinions (Having the conversation)
  • A typology of censorship
  • Young Adult fiction as a front in the battle
  • Liberals/conservatives and Trigger Warnings
  • Protection comes not through restriction
  • Gulliver's Travels and masturbation jokes
  • Burning books as a eliminating a human being
  • Danny's obligatory Lionel Trilling reference (Bingo!)
  • The symbolism of fire
  • Fahrenheit 451
  • The Jefferson Bible
  • Beatty's speech as typology
  • Danny wonders about audiobooks
  • Psst. The movie Danny's trying to think of is Hangover Square
  • Recommendations
Links:
  • A Universal History of the Destruction of Books by  Fernando Báez
  • "On the Teaching of Modern Literature" by Lionel Trilling (called "On the Modern Element of Literature" here) 
  • On Beatty's speech from Fahrenheit 451, by Jay Eldred
  • Hangover Square, directed by John Brahm
  • ALA website
  • A Biblical Approach to Objectionable Elements in Christian Education
  • "Earth's Holocaust" by Nathaniel Hawthorne
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