Slow Burn Reveals Our Historical Blind Spots
More than anything, Slow Burn reminded me of one of evangelicals’ (and Americans’) greatest blind spots: our own history.

More than anything, Slow Burn reminded me of one of evangelicals’ (and Americans’) greatest blind spots: our own history.

We are the audience, with our endless appetite for scandal, standing around the woman at the well (or in this case the two women at the well), ready to throw stones.

The power of a represented voice joining in unison with underrepresented voices was especially clear to me the night of the Scandal episode.

Swimmer Lilly King claims to be the good American Olympian in the face of the Russian doping scandal, but the truth of the matter is more complicated.

Carrying on with business as usual when something has gone terribly wrong is only playing at goodness—a sour imitation of the real thing.

“The scandal of Scandal is that it could do so much more to spark discussions about racial differences, but instead it chooses to color the show in shades that all blur everyone together to look the same.”
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