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Omar Swartz

Omar Swartz is Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Colorado at Denver, A.B., 1989, Humboldt State University (cum laude); M.A., 1992, University of California, Davis; Ph.D., 1995, Purdue University; J.D., 2001 (magna cum laude), Duke University.

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Commentary

The African Christ

By Omar Swartz

Why are television evangelists or the corner fire-and-brimstone preachers we find on college campuses and in other places reprehensible to many people who, themselves, attend Church on Sunday and consider themselves pious? Whenever this issue comes up in class, my students tell me that these preachers “give Christianity a bad name,” and “do not reflect…

Why are television evangelists or the corner fire-and-brimstone preachers we find on college campuses and in other places reprehensible to many people who, themselves, attend Church…

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