Posted on 09/29/2006 11:24:16 AM PDT by steve-b
One of the most moving documentaries to arrive in Washington theaters this year was "The Boys of Baraka," an intimate account of several African American middle-school students who left their inner-city Baltimore neighborhood to spend a life-changing year at a boarding school in rural Kenya.
"Baraka" co-directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady have once again turned their lens on young people. This time, though, even if their subjects are geographically closer to home, culturally they are worlds away. In "Jesus Camp," Ewing and Grady enter the lives of America's evangelical Christians and the churches, revival meetings, antiabortion demonstrations and summer camps where they educate their children. With extraordinary access to a community that is largely unknown to outsiders, the filmmakers have once again created a candid and compelling portrait of young people forging their identities at the physical and psychic extremes.
"Jesus Camp" opens with an unsettling sequence, during which young Christians -- dressed in camouflage and with their faces painted brown and green -- enact a warlike ritual dedicating themselves to fighting for God....
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Thanks.
Great topic.
interesting
. . . pentecostalism/charismatic Christianity . . .
Although firm numbers are difficult to nail down, research from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life indicates that Pentecostalism may account for between 15 and 20 percent of evangelicals, who number around 52 million adults in this country, and who in recent years have emerged as a powerful political force.
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Anyone have any more accurate numbers?
If I were to say I was scared of these people, then I'm scared of the very tenets of our political system."
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Is that a milk sop?
Indeed, according to Ewing, the families and activists in the film "don't consider themselves as political. To them, they're just living a moral upright life in an organized way, and to us that looks political. . . . They think it's their duty to encourage the culture to live the same, and that means engaging civically."
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Of course, the globalist MSM and the "Religion of Scientism/Humanism" and the DIMRATS will all wail and whine at such.
Huh? We meet several times a week, run ads in the local yellow pages, invite our friends and family to Church....
For Grady, the experience of making "Jesus Camp" has taught her that the political rhetoric about Two Americas is distressingly true. "Heidi and I travel all over the world for our work and go to all kinds of exotic communities and societies and cultures, and then, just 2 1/2 hours away, there's a parallel world going on that we didn't know about because of our own ignorance," she says.
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Hmmmmm . . . who'd thunk! /sar
AMEN!
Shout it from the housetops! Oh, yeah, that was Pat R's first book title. LOL.
LOL! Ain't that the truth. They don't know because they don't want to know. I'm sure they're just afraid of being converted.
Try adherents.com.
According to adterents.com, the Assemblies of God is the 6th largest "religious body" in the world, behind groups like Catholicism and Sunni Islam and ahead of Baptists, Methodists and Lutherans...
Thanks.
Am at the college and headed off to pottery . . . but if you have any of those stats handy, please post them.
If not, I'll try and get to it this evening if that site has them.
Thanks much.
Oh, to be in college again......
I read the article hoping to find out something about "The Boys of Baraka", but it was just bait for the hook, there was nothing more in the entire article about it.
The rest of it is just the usual moronic nonsense, treating church-goers like objects for anthropologic study. I suppose church-goers are weird for someone who has never been in church, but for most people both the serious and the silly are so familiar as to be hardly worthy of comment.
Yeah -- except that then I'd have to go through my first job again, too. 6.5 years that pretty much sucked.
Wait 'til they get to the scene where they "take up the whole armour of God", "put on the breastplate of righteousness", "gird their loins with truth", "take up the shield of faith, helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit". Onward Christian soldiers!
I love being a college prof. Great context and purpose and interactions.
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"Baraka" co-directors Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady have once again turned their lens on young people. This time, though, even if their subjects are geographically closer to home, culturally they are worlds away. In "Jesus Camp," Ewing and Grady enter the lives of America's evangelical Christians and the churches, revival meetings, antiabortion demonstrations and summer camps where they educate their children. With extraordinary access to a community that is largely unknown to outsiders ...
And when the poor delusional kids sing and do the motions to "I may never march in the infantry, ride in the cavalry, or shoot the artillery, but I'm in the Lord's Army", their heads may actually explode...
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