Saving Teens from Obama: When Bible Study Goes Wrong
At Religion Dispatches, Vyckie Garrison writes about her daughter’s viewing of 2016: Obama’s America, a conservation documentary, at her Salvation Army church’s “Teen Night.” Regarding a conversation Garrison had with the pastors who decided to show the movie, she reflects “the larger point I took away from the discussion was more about my perspective as a former card-carrying member of the Christian Right, and how our different worldviews shaped our ability to see the teen movie trip as a problem. From inside the ‘hedge of protection’—a Christian ghetto undisturbed by competing viewpoints—the pastors could not fathom 2016: Obama’s America as blatant propaganda.”