Perfection: Coming to Terms with Being Human Post
What are rhetoricians good for? That query plays on George Scialabba’s 2009 book title about the utility of public intellectuals. Directed toward rhetoricians in particular, the question also helps interpret Michael J. Hyde’s recent book, Perfection: Coming to Terms with Being Human. Christian scholars will quickly appreciate Hyde’s attention to the relationship between rhetoric and…
White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America Post
There is no mistaking the purpose of this book, as well as the author’s awareness of how this purpose will be received by her audience. In her opening sentence, Anthea Butler makes both clear: “White Evangelical Racism tells a concise history of the evangelical movement and—here is the hard part—the racist and racial elements that…