by Haley Twist | Jun 5, 2015 | Blog, Featured Post, Religion, Religion & Film
Writer-director Peter Sattler’s 2014 film Camp X-Ray raises interesting questions about morality, idealism, gender, and nationality, but here I want to highlight the film’s cinematic interpretations of religious accommodation and the larger issues that are often...
by Haley Twist | Jan 4, 2014 | Religion & Film
Author’s note: This post was originally an essay I wrote for an undergraduate-level religious studies class at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2013. The Amish church, founded in Europe in 1693, is known for being a traditional people, usually...
by Haley Twist | Dec 22, 2013 | Religion & Film
Author’s note: This post was originally an essay I wrote for an undergraduate-level religious studies class at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in 2013. The Pentecostal Holiness Church is a Pentecostal Christian denomination that developed in the...