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| Never heard of this 2020 movie at all. Times seems to have hated it, is that a recommendation these days? |
Speaking of theological politics, Faith-Basedness is in the news from the Biden administration, and it's not bad...
The W. Bush administration invented the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives in 2001 as an organ of "compassionate conservatism", encouraging ways of funneling congressionally appropriated money for social services through religious organizations, kind of like the equivalent of a charter school movement for anti-poverty programs, sometimes in ways that looked an awful lot like violations of the First Amendment's Establishment Clause, and dominated, as you might expect, by white Christian denominations.
Under the former community organizer Barack Obama, it was renamed, Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, and given a council of religious and secular leaders from a very wide variety of ethnicities and traditions, and goals were retooled from a kind of market-oriented idea of competition in the 2001 formulation
