Discourse #11 | Oct 2019

Chris Cotter is joined by Susannah Crockford and Sierra Lawson in this month’s edition of discourse, discussing college football politics in Alabama, Donald Trump’s new ‘spiritual adviser’, a Day of the Dead/Dia de Muertos memorializing migrants who have died at the US border, Armistice/Remembrance/Veterans’ day rituals, and the recent controversy surrounding QR codes at the AAR-SBL.

Links to stories here:

• Day of the Dead: https://thehill.com/latino/468320-hispanic-caucus-dedicates-day-of-the-dead-altar-to-migrants-who-died-in-us-custody
• Paula White: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-spiritual-adviser-paula-white-prays-against-presidents-opponents-suggests-they-operate-1470197 and more background on her here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/31/us/politics/paula-white-trump.html and here: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/us/politics/paula-white-trump.html
• QR codes: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/11/11/scholars-religion-and-biblical-literature-object-having-conference-badges-coded-and#.XclZwaMMtqY.twitter
• Football: https://www.al.com/news/2019/11/alabama-sga-warns-groups-protest-trump-during-lsu-game-risk-losing-reserved-seating.html