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Why I Started Using Christian Fascism Instead of Christian Nationalism

During graduate school, Chris Hedges took ethics classes with James Luther Adams, an American theologian who spent time in Germany during…

Sep 1, 2022

Why I Started Using Christian Fascism Instead of Christian Nationalism

Sep 1, 2022

“Worship is an experience that transforms the heart”: Songs That Bring Me to Worship

Over the past few years, my reading habits oscillate from fiction and graphic novels to history to religion and beyond. Sometimes I have a…

2d ago

“Worship is an experience that transforms the heart”: Songs That Bring Me to Worship

2d ago

We Must Keep You Afraid because When You Are Afraid, You Are Not Free

Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis covers a large period of time following the Islamic Revolution in Iran during the later 1970s. While the…

6d ago

We Must Keep You Afraid because When You Are Afraid, You Are Not Free

6d ago

Epideictic Rhetoric, Athletes, and Veterans: A National Discourse

Note: I presented this paper at the 2012 Rhetoric Society of America conference in Philadelphia.

May 4

Epideictic Rhetoric, Athletes, and Veterans: A National Discourse

May 4

“We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make…

Whenever I have a course that focuses on comics or graphic narratives, I usually have students create their own graphic text. For this…

Apr 30

“We have too often a deliberate attempt so to change the facts of history that the story will make…

Apr 30

Trapped in a Cage in Helen Weinzweig’s “Basic Black with Pearls”

Every now and then, I get to the point where I’m not sure what I want to read. When that happens, I go to my bookshelves and start to…

Apr 27

Trapped in a Cage in Helen Weinzweig’s “Basic Black with Pearls”

Apr 27

The Construction of Enemies in Ron Rash’s “Return”

All of us, no matter how hard we try, succumb to preconceived stereotypes and the construction of others who may disagree with us enemies…

Apr 23

The Construction of Enemies in Ron Rash’s “Return”

Apr 23

“Hosanna! Save Us!”: How We Need to Think About Jesus During Easter

Throughout Holy Week this year, I have constantly been thinking about how we think about Jesus. I grew up in the Southern Baptist Church…

Apr 20

“Hosanna! Save Us!”: How We Need to Think About Jesus During Easter

Apr 20

The Sickly Flavor of the Contagion Beneath Our Feet

Writing about the responses from world leaders to his stabbing in 2022, Salman Rushdie points out that while some expressed their…

Apr 16

The Sickly Flavor of the Contagion Beneath Our Feet

Apr 16

What Do Our Stories Tell Us About Ourselves and Our World?

Apr 13

What Do Our Stories Tell Us About Ourselves and Our World?

Apr 13

Matthew Teutsch

Matthew Teutsch

Here, you will find reflections on African American, American, and Southern Literature, American popular culture and politics, and pedagogy.

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