“God and Country” – Whose God and whose country? [MOVIE REVIEW]
“God and Country,” an excellent and rather chilling documentary directed by Dan Partland, lays out the history of the radicalization of politics in some of the largest Evangelical Christian churches and how much of it has morphed into a Christian Nationalist movement bent on changing the face of the nation to mirror their essentially all white, radically conservative views. It would appear to be a movement based on fear. Elucidating and supporting this view are some excellent interviewees including, among others, Reza Aslan, the writer renowned for his works on religion; Rev. Dr. William J Berber, II, a Protestant minister who writes regularly for the “New York Times” and “Washington Post;” Anthea Butler, chairwoman of the department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, who has written on the history of African American religion; Sister Simone Campbell, a Presidential Medal of Honor Winner and Catholic nun; and Skye Jethani, a pastor and host of a weekly series about the intersection of culture and theology. Although the journalists and writers interviewed are very effective in explaining the shift in religious politics, it is the ministers who best explain what…
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