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New & Noteworthy: ‘BlackBerry,’ Overlooked Christians, and More

Three culture recommendations from our editors.

A photo from the docufilm ‘Blackberry.’ Actor Jay Baruchel is Mike Lazaridis, co-CEO of Blackberry. He has short gray hair, glasses, and wears a white dress shirt. He glares down at a phone with wires plugged into it. People behind him are cheering.
From BlackBerry

Capitalist Cautionary Tale

BlackBerry highlights the role of greed in capitalism through the story of the rise of the BlackBerry smartphone. The film, which transports us to a time when smartphones weren’t omnipresent fixtures in our lives, shows the danger of valuing innovation more than ethics.
Elevation Pictures

Small Steps for Justice

In Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul: How to Change the World in Quiet Ways, author Dorcas Cheng-Tozun reaffirms the ways meek, introverted, and empathetic voices enhance conversations about justice, underscoring that you don’t have to chant through a megaphone to advance the common good.
Broadleaf

Overlooked Christians

“Evangelicalism” has become synonymous with a white, patriarchal, conservative brand of Christianity. In The Other Evangelicals: A Story of Liberal, Black, Progressive, Feminist, and Gay Christians — and the Movement That Pushed Them Out, Isaac B. Sharp shows how evangelical history is far from monolithic.
Eerdmans

This appears in the August 2023 issue of Sojourners