June 3, 2021 // Posted In Academics, Research
Dr. Greg Garrett is particularly gifted at telling all types of stories. As a specialist in creative writing, he’s told stories of truth and passion. He’s analyzed media for its effects on past and modern societies. And over the past year, he has been focused on telling stories of race and justice.
His most recent book,
“Racial mythologies have been deeply embedded in American life, from film to legal codes to theology to popular and material culture,” says Garrett. “Racial mythologies about the inferiority of other races are untrue in the way we usually think of myths as lies, but they’re also powerfully true in the way that people have oriented their lives around them and used them to make sense of the world. I’m interested in the way these dynamics shapes the way we understand our lives, the world, God, and each other.”
Italian Sculptor Arturo Di Modica, Whose Charging Bull Sculpture Became a Symbol of an Unbridled Wall Street, Has Died at 80
The artist was working on major projects right up until his death.
Charging Bull. Photo by Arthur Piccolo.
Italian sculptor Arturo Di Modica died Friday at home in Vittoria, Sicily. He was 80 years old, and had been sick with intestinal cancer in recent years.
If you don’t know Di Modica’s name, you almost certainly know his work he is the man behind
Charging Bull, the instantly recognizable symbol of Wall Street that has stood on New York’s Bowling Green since 1989.
Feb. 9, 2021
‘A Long, Long Way’ event led by Baylor author and cathedral canon theologian examine how film has adapted to changes in cultural perspectives
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WACO, Texas (Feb. 9, 2021) “A Long, Long Way Film Series” sponsored by Baylor University and Washington National Cathedral annually will be fully online this spring and open to all Baylor faculty, staff and students, rather than a few undergraduates who usually attend the annual event in Washington, D.C.
The two-part series, co-sponsored by Austin Film Festival and the March on Washington Film Festival, will be aired via Zoom at 7 p.m. Eastern Standard Time on Thursday, Feb. 11, and at 7 p.m. EST Tuesday, March 2.