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SUMMARY:The Rise of Christian Nationalism: Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Former Church Members Featured in the Film
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereScreening Courtesy of CNN \nIn this CNN documentary\, which first aired on CNN March 22\, Pamela Brown examines the growing influence of Christian nationalism in American society; exploring how a movement once largely confined to the margins of white evangelical culture has gained new visibility and political power. \nCNN Chief Investigative Correspondent Pamela Brown examines the growing influence of Christian nationalism\, an ideology rooted in the belief that the United States was founded as a Christian nation and that its laws and institutions should reflect Christian values. Through immersive reporting and on-the-ground access\, the film explores how a movement once largely confined to the margins of white evangelical culture has gained new visibility and political power. \n\n“My reporting for this hour began early last year when I visited Moscow\, Idaho to interview Pastor Douglas Wilson. The response to that report was overwhelming and highlighted the need to better understand this movement working to redefine America as a Christian nation in the home\, in a marriage\, in schools and in government\,” said Brown.  “We embedded with a community under Pastor Wilson’s umbrella and spoke to women who have left the church and are now sounding the alarm. No matter where you live or what you believe\, what we learned is especially consequential at this moment.” \nIn “The Rise of Christian Nationalism\,” Brown travels to faith-centered communities where Christian nationalist ideas shape daily life\, education\, and governance. She sits down with prominent religious leaders who have helped build networks of churches and schools designed to instill a strict\, literal interpretation of the Bible. She also speaks with women who are former church members\, sharing accounts of religious trauma\, rigid gender roles\, and in some cases\, abuse within Christian nationalist communities. \n \nFeatured panelists\, all of whom appear in the film\, are: \n\nMargaret Bronson was raised in a theonomist cult in Southeastern Pennsylvania. She escaped at 19 and now lives with her husband and 4 children and has dedicated her life to helping others escape their cults. She is a co-founder of DeconstructionDoulas.com\, a peer support network that helps people leave high-control religious communities and supports those who have escaped.\nKatie Jennings was raised in the “shiny happy people” cult of IBLP (Institute of Basic Life Principles) in central Texas. She married young and was a trad-wife for 15 years\, homeschooling 6 kids and living as a missionary and pastor’s wife in a reformed Christian denomination overseas. Katie was forced to deconstruct when the systems that promised to protect her failed to do so\, and she has spent the last few years working hard to find the path to healing for herself and her family.\nAbi Bechard is the oldest of 10 children and a homeschool alumna. Her deconstruction from the CREC (Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches) began in earnest after abuse was discovered in her family of origin and her body and mind broke down in motherhood. Now she owns a local third space and is passionate about healing through communal embodiment.\n\nAll are survivors of evangelical/fundamentalist sects. In an evangelical/fundamentalist context\, “survivor” can mean any number of things. In this context\, we use the word “survivor” to refer to anyone who has left a religious/spiritual context in which they experienced spiritual\, emotional\, sexual\, psychological\, and/or corporal abuse. Many fundamentalist sects\, especially\, teach corporal punishment and complementarianism (ie strict gender roles that includes male supremacy/control) as a spiritual mandate. These teachings often lead to domestic violence (DV) and intimate partner violence. Paired with a high-control and deeply authoritarian church leadership structure\, these teachings are particularly dangerous and often ignored completely within fundamentalist and evangelical Christian traditions. LifeWay Research — a leading evangelical research firm measuring needs in the church and culture — in its own 2014 study found 74% of pastors underestimate DV in their congregations\, 42% rarely or never speak about it\, and 62% provide couples counseling to DV victims – a practice DV experts consider dangerous or potentially lethal.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/the-rise-of-christian-nationalism-film-screening-and-panel-discussion-featuring-former-church-members/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films and Performances,In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:A Nation at Peace with Itself: The Enduring Legacy of John Lewis
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereA Conversation Featuring John Lewis’s Longtime Director of Communications\, Brenda Jones\, Playwright\, Psalmayene 24\, and Historian\, George Derek Musgrove \nPresented in partnership with Mosaic Theatre Company and their production of Young John Lewis: Prodigy of Protest\nby Mosaic’s Playwright in-in-Residence\, Psalmayene 24 \n \nLearn More Here: https://mosaictheater.org/young-john-lewis \nIt’s time to make some good trouble. Join us for a conversation honoring the legacy of former Congressman and Civil Rights icon\, John Lewis. Psalmayene 24’s new musical\, Young John Lewis\, honors the legendary “Conscience of Congress.” \nBrenda Jones is the former Senior Presidential Speechwriter in the Executive Office of the President of the United States for President Joseph Biden\, the first African American woman to ever hold that title. President Biden also appointed her to serve as a Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services during his administration. Before her appointment to the White House\, she was an award-winning political communicator\, speechwriter and author who worked in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington\, DC for nearly 16 years. She was the primary speechwriter and lead communications strategist for the late Rep. John Lewis and was dubbed “the John Lewis whisperer” by Roll Call magazine. In 2015\, she was named “One of the 20 Most Powerful Women Staffers on Capitol Hill” by National Journal magazine. In 2012\, she won an NAACP Image Award for her book collaboration with Lewis called Across That Bridge: Life Lessons and a Vision for Change\, which hit The New York Times Bestseller list in 2020. She is also a first-place winner of the Theodore C. Sorenson Speechwriting Awards and the co-author of a four-book series on political women called Queens of the Resistance about the lives of Speaker Nancy Pelosi\, Chairwoman Maxine Waters\, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Today\, she is a contributing writer for The Contrarian and the founder and president of The John Lewis Institute of Peace\, an American domestic peace organization. She holds a Masters in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government\, where she was a Gertrude Manning Fellow. She has a Masters in Journalism from the Alfred Pulitzer School of Journalism at Columbia University\, and a BA from Indiana University’s School of Journalism\, as well as a certificate in environmental public policy from the University of Cambridge. \n  \n\nPsalmayene 24 is an award-winning playwright\, director\, and actor. He is currently the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Playwright in Residence at Mosaic Theater Company. Playwriting credits include Young John Lewis (book & lyrics) at Theatrical Outfit; Monumental Travesties\, Dear Mapel\, and Les Deux Noirs at Mosaic Theater Company; Out of the Vineyard at Joe’s Movement Emporium; and Cinderella: The Remix at Imagination Stage. Directing credits include Tempestuous Elements at Arena Stage; Metamorphoses (Helen Hayes Award\, Outstanding Direction of a Play) at Folger Theatre; The Colored Museum\, Good Bones\, Flow\, and Pass Over at Studio Theatre; Necessary Sacrifices: A Radio Play at Ford’s Theatre; Native Son at Mosaic Theater Company; and Word Becomes Flesh (Helen Hayes Award\, Outstanding Direction of a Play) at Theater Alliance. Acting credits include Dear Mapel at Mosaic Theater Company\, Ruined at Arena Stage\, and HBO’s The Wire. Psalm\, as his colleagues call him\, is the writer/director/producer of the short musical film The Freewheelin’Insurgents presented by Arena Stage. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild\, Stage Directors and Choreographers Society\, and Actors’ Equity Association. On Instagram: @psalmayene24. \n  \n\nGeorge Derek Musgrove\, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at the University of Maryland\, Baltimore County. He is the author of Rumor\, Repression\, and Racial Politics: How the Harassment of Black Elected Officials Shaped Post-Civil Rights America (U. of Georgia\, 2012) and co-author\, with Chris Myers Asch\, of Chocolate City\, A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation’s Capital (UNC\, 2017). In 2021\, he tried his hand at digital humanities\, releasing blackpowerindc.umbc.edu \, a web-based map covering thirty years of Black Power activism in the nation’s capital. His work has appeared in the Washington Post\, National Public Radio\, the New York Times and The Root. He is currently working on a book project tentatively titled “We must take to the streets again”: The Movement Resurgence in Conservative America\, which explores the burst of black activism that rose in opposition to the urban crisis and the conservative retrenchment in the 1980s and 90s. He earned his Ph.D. from New York University in 2005 and now lives with his wife and two sons in Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/a-nation-at-peace-with-itself-the-enduring-legacy-of-john-lewis-featuring-lewiss-colleague-brenda-jones-playwright-psalmayne-24-and-historian-george-derek-musgrove/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films and Performances,In-person Events,Lectures & Conversations
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SUMMARY:Screening of Documentary Film The Last Battlefront: Quest for the Vote in DC - Featuring a Panel Discussion with filmmaker Anna Reid Jhirad.
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HerePresented in partnership with FREE DC and Women in Film & Video \n\n\nThis one-hour documentary is the first historical film on the right for self-government in Washington\, D.C. told through the lives and voices of its citizens. This is a non-partisan film with conflicting points of view which premiered on PBS. \nWashington\, D.C. is one of the only capitals in the world where its citizens have no representation in the national legislature and where Congress and federal authorities routinely intrude on the local government of the District. The film looks at four turning points in the history of Washington\, D.C. to understand how this happened and the struggles of D.C. residents to restore their basic rights of self-government that other Americans enjoy. \nFilmmaker Anna Reid Jhirad\, founder of Marigold Productions\, LLC\, is a deeply experienced and award-winning filmmaker who has worked for years as a writer and producer on documentary programs that landed on PBS\, in museums\, IMAX cinemas\, and in independent markets. She is now directing a series of films. She was able to work with major producers–Henry Hampton in Boston; Charles and Grace Guggenheim in Washington\, D.C.; PBS executives such as Tamara Robinson at WETA and WNET; and African American directors such as Dante James. The programs won significant awards among them Emmys\, Cine Golden Eagles\, the Dupont Columbia Award\, and an Academy Award Nomination\, as well as awards from film festivals (Pan African Film Directors’ Award\, Black Maria Film Festival\, Philadelphia Women’s Film Festival).  \nA key thread running through her films is their focus on history. In trying to understand the racial violence in Boston during the 1970s\, she launched her own earliest films at WGBH but also worked with Blackside Inc\, on Eyes on the Prize. In Washington\, D.C.\, she was lead writer for Power to Heal\, a story about the racial integration of hospitals under Lyndon Johnson\, which appeared on PBS nationally. She helped develop museum exhibitions with Margo Taft Stever\, featuring newly discovered photographs of William Howard Taft’s 1905 Mission to Asia. Now with The Last Battlefront: Quest for the Vote in Washington\, D.C.\, she has found\, again\, that history has a way of broadening our understanding of a difficult political dilemma\, D.C.’s long struggle for basic rights of self-government\, democracy\, and representation in Congress. At a time of national struggles over voting rights\, these little-known stories offer insights that should help reframe the fight. She is a member of the Writers Guild East. \nWatch the trailer here. \nPost-screening panel to include: \n\n\nMaddie Caldis – Moderator & Event coordinator (member of WIFV and FDC)\nAnna Reid Jhirad – Filmmaker\nAnkit Jain – DC Shadow Senator & Voting Rights attorney\nErika Turner – Free DC Training/Programs Coordinator\nAbbie Nelson – Representative from Reeb Voting Rights Project
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/screening-of-documentary-film-the-last-battlefront-quest-for-the-vote-in-dc-featuring-a-panel-discussion-with-filmmaker-anna-reid-jhirad/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
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SUMMARY:Capitol Hill Art Walk
DESCRIPTION:In-person This event has passed Register HereHonoring Service Through Creativity \nAs a proud participant in the 2025 Capitol Hill ART WALK\, Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital will host a special outdoor showcase highlighting the work of past and future military members on Saturday September 13th and Sunday\, September 14th from Noon to 4 p.m. These artists draw from their experiences to create compelling works that reflect resilience\, transformation\, and identity. Explore powerful creations and support a community where artistic expression and military service come together. \nExperience the vibrant arts scene of Capitol Hill as neighborhood artists open their doors to showcase incredible art and handmade crafts. Meet the makers\, find one-of-a-kind pieces and support local creativity!
URL:https://www.hillcenterdc.org/event/capitol-hill-art-walk/2025-09-14/
LOCATION:Hill Center DC\, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue\, SE\, Washington\, DC\, 20003\, United States
CATEGORIES:Films and Performances,Galleries,In-person Events
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