But it really clearly explains, for people who are not creationists or from creationist backgrounds, what exactly creationists think they're doing, and why they think it's a coherent belief-set. The book I always want to pair it with is God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World, which is very early-90s in that it doesn't see Christian Triumphalism, um, triumphing. If they had called it what it is, it probably wouldn't have gotten so popular. Perhaps I should pick up the book.Īlso, I just want to say that "family values" was a brilliant marketing label for authoritarian patriarchalism.
It would be interesting to read more of the details of those connections between a government that wanted to procure hypermasculine soldiers and a church that wanted to produce them.
If screwing over women is what it takes to produce motivated male soldiers, then so be it. She alludes to the fact that American governments consciously played on these currents in their fights against "Godless Communism" and the "War on Terror". When American war efforts collapse in confusion (Vietnam) or relief (fall of the Soviet Union), a kinder, gentler patriarchal current flows through the church. When the nation thinks it needs to produce tough, dominant men to fight in its wars keep America safe, the currents in Evangelicalism which want men to dominate their wives, their children, their churches, and the world come to the fore. One thing I found interesting was how hypermasculinity in the Evangelical church has waxed and waned along with American war efforts and militarism. 18th 2015, the pair went to Selma to march in celebration of MLK Day even and there they even performed “Glory” live on the Edmund Pettus Bridge:Ĭheck out the song’s official music video as well as Legend & Common’s live performance at the 57th Grammy Awards.Great interview, was thinking of posting it myself. I wanted something that tied the spirit of Selma with what was happening in the streets at the time we were writing, which was people protesting in Missouri and eventually New York about injustice and police brutality.
We wanted it to have that pain, but also hope. I looked at Ferguson and saw what was going on, and knew that it wasn’t far from what was happening during the civil rights movement – people standing up for what they believe in, marching for what they believe in, protesting for what they believe in.
Inspired by the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches and the Civil Rights Movement in general, Common explained how the song also relates to the recent protests in Ferguson, MO:
WHO SANG SOMEWHERE BETWEEN JESUS AND JOHN WAYNE MOVIE
Off the soundtrack to the movie Selma, John Legend & Common’s “Glory” won “Best Original Song” at the 2015 Golden Globe Awards and the 87th Academy Awards. One day when the glory comes It will be ours, it will be ours One day when the war is won We will be sure, we will be sure Oh glory (glory, glory) Ohh (glory, glory) Now the war is not over, victory isn't won But we'll fight on to the finish, and when it's all done We'll cry glory (glory), oh glory (glory), oh (glory, glory) We'll cry glory, oh glory, oh (glory, glory) Selma is now for every man, woman and child Even Jesus got his crown in front of a crowd They marched with the torch, we gon' run with it now Never look back, we done gone hundreds of miles From dark roads he rose, to become a hero Facin' the league of justice, his power was the people Enemy is lethal, a king became regal Saw the face of Jim Crow under a bald eagle The biggest weapon is to stay peaceful We sing, our music is the cuts that we bleed through Somewhere in the dream we had an epiphany Now we right the wrongs in history No one can win the war individually It takes the wisdom of the elders and young people's energy Welcome to the story we call victory The comin' of the Lord, my eyes have seen the glory