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CODA
CODA made me laugh. It’s the only film I’ve seen at Sundance this year so far that has. CODA is a simple yet heartwarming teen coming-of-age story set in a fishing town outside Boston. Although...
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Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street
“There’s family, the church, and the school… and then there’s television.” — Jim Henson During the summer of 1969, the Harlem Cultural Festival took place with an audience of more than 300,000...
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Summer of Soul
“An eruption of spirit […], to arrive at a place of inner peace by being expressly open.” — Greg Tate In 1969, 300,000 people gathered in a New York City park for the Harlem Cultural Festival, but...
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My Name Is Pauli Murray
“It seemed to me as I looked back over my life, that all of these problems of human rights in which I had been involved, were moral and spiritual problems. […] I was being pointed in the direction of...
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Land
Land is an unhurried look at grief, isolation, and how a full (and therefore healing) experience of lament often requires the bonds of community. Gorgeous mountainscape views and detailed attention to...
View ArticlePlaying With Sharks
What if the entire population of a given place was made up of artists? Marfa, Texas is a place where you can find out. The post Playing With Sharks appeared first on Fuller Studio.
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What if the entire population of a given place was made up of artists? Marfa, Texas is a place where you can find out. The post Users appeared first on Fuller Studio.
View ArticleIssue 18: Politics
Dominant cultural manners can sometimes be confused with following Jesus. They are not the same thing, however, and nothing reveals this better than politics – except perhaps religion. The post Issue...
View ArticleSpring 2021 Introduction
Religious authority and technology are not new subjects of conversation and controversy. From a historical perspective, every era of globalization has been intimately intertwined with advances in, and...
View ArticleA Holy Influence: Understanding religious authority in hyperconnected times
The nature of digital connectivity is intensifying as the ‘Internet of Things’ of digital sensors, devices and applications become more tightly woven in our ‘smart’ homes, workplaces, neighborhoods and...
View ArticleReligious Authority in Hindu Guru Digital Spaces
In her article, Pauline Hope Cheong discusses the ever more expanding and changing interrelation of new media technologies and religious authority. By keeping a superb balance between high level...
View ArticleTowards a Spirituality that is Authoritative in all Aspects of Life
Pauline Cheong’s article communicates clearly about the challenge of understanding the nature of religious authority in our digitally connected world. She illustrates well the various ways religious...
View ArticleReligious Adherents as Power Brokers of Religious Authority in the Digital Age
Cheong’s article introduces the complexities of religious authority in the computer-mediated society. She aims at raising awareness of the many fronts in which the digital age requires systematic...
View ArticleBetween Supplication and Supplantation of Religious Authority
“Egypt’s emerging papyrus technology continues to alarm parents and law enforcement. A new bill introduced today would let the government regulate material found on papyrus. Legislators said,...
View ArticleWhat is True Religion and Trustworthy Spirituality?
Dr. Pauline Cheong’s erudite article ranges over the full gamut of hyperconnectivity. I especially appreciated it for raising the question of religious authority as it pertains to online and other new...
View ArticleCultural Differences and Conservative Directions Within Digital Religions
Dr. Pauline Cheong is a pioneer and central figure in Digital Religion (DR). Her essay accordingly provides an excellent introduction and finely nuanced account of religious authority as a defining...
View ArticleFides Quaerens Intellectum and Techno-Religious Authority
Religion—orthodox, unorthodox—is being empowered by technology something the pandemic has only further underlined. The popularity of televangelism played a significant role in normalising the...
View ArticleIssue 19: Migration
The God of the Bible is the God of migration. To follow Jesus meant to be adopted into a migrant family of unlike people The post Issue 19: Migration appeared first on Fuller Studio.
View ArticleIssue 20: In Between
These voices speak something deeply about what it means to be in between. They know the yearning and the pain in that space, but they also know of the hope and goodness to be discovered in it. The post...
View ArticleIssue 21: What’s Next
The world keeps changing, and change always begets more change. A new world means reimagined selves, a reimagined church, and a reimagined way in which disciples of Jesus are prepared to encounter the...
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