The Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook, longtime Baptist minister and former religious freedom ambassador, took on another role with the recent animated movie “Soul.”
She was not an actor or a director, but an adviser. In late 2019, she traveled to Pixar’s studios to watch a rough cut of the film. She was joined by other notable experts, including Fuller Theological Seminary President Mark Labberton, United Negro College Fund CEO Michael Lomax and musicians Yo-Yo Ma and Quincy Jones.
More than a year before its recent release on Disney+, Johnson Cook joined in giving feedback to Pixar’s directors and storytellers on the film, which centers on a New York band teacher named Joe Gardner, who strives to be a pianist at a famed jazz club. A misstep unexpectedly takes him to “The Great Before,” and, as a result, he learns more about the meaning of life.
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Pixar Adviser & Theologian Suzan Johnson Cook on How They Came to Define ‘Soul’ in the Film
(RNS) The Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook, longtime Baptist minister and former U.S. religious freedom ambassador, took on another role with the new animated movie
Soul. She was not an actor or a director, but an adviser.
In late 2019, she traveled to Pixar’s studios to watch a rough cut of the film. She was joined by other notable experts, including Fuller Theological Seminary President Mark Labberton, United Negro College Fund CEO Michael Lomax, and musicians Yo-Yo Ma and Quincy Jones.
More than a year before its Christmas Day release on Disney+, Johnson Cook joined in giving feedback to Pixar’s directors and storytellers on the film, which centers on a New York band teacher named Joe Gardner, who strives to be a pianist at a famed jazz club. A misstep unexpectedly takes him to “The Great Before,” and, as a result, he learns more about the meaning of life.
(RNS) The Rev. Suzan Johnson Cook, longtime Baptist minister and former religious freedom ambassador, took on another role with the new animated movie “Soul.”
She was not an actor or a director, but an adviser. In late 2019, she traveled to Pixar’s studios to watch a rough cut of the film. She was joined by other notable experts, including Fuller Theological Seminary President Mark Labberton, United Negro College Fund CEO Michael Lomax and musicians Yo-Yo Ma and Quincy Jones.
More than a year before its Christmas Day release on Disney+, Johnson Cook joined in giving feedback to Pixar’s directors and storytellers on the film, which centers on a New York band teacher named Joe Gardner, who strives to be a pianist at a famed jazz club. A misstep unexpectedly takes him to “The Great Before,” and, as a result, he learns more about the meaning of life.
American evangelicals and the resistance to COVID vaccines
Evangelical leaders in the US have helped sow distrust in public health professionals and COVID-19 vaccines. But some church leaders within the ranks are confronting the resistance amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Evangelicals for Trump coalition conference
During the summer, when the coronavirus tore through the United States, misinformation campaigns promoted conspiracy theories that could jeopardize the health of hundreds of thousands of Americans. Many evangelical Christians a loosely defined group of mostly doctrinally conservative Protestants have been fractured by myths about the COVID-19 vaccine and the pandemic.
Critics have accused right-wing fundamentalist pastors of perpetuating baseless theories that encourage their flock to ignore public health data and experts fighting the coronavirus. Some unfounded claims include the assertion that the vaccine is the mark of the beast, or will cause sterilizatio