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Bill McKibben - award-winning author, activist, educator - is fiercely curious. "I'm curious about what went so suddenly sour with American patriotism, American faith, and American prosperity." Like so many of us, McKibben grew up believing - knowing - that the United States was the greatest country on earth. As a teenager, he cheerfully led American Revolution tours in Lexington, Massachusetts. He sang "Kumbaya" at church. And with the remarkable...
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"A street chaplain, activist, and nonprofit leader invites you on a spiritual journey to the margins of American society and to the front lines of social justice movements where faith means getting your hands dirty in the struggle for a better world"--
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Martin Luther King stakes out new ground for himself and the rapidly fragmenting civil rights movement. One year before his death, he publicly opposes the war in Vietnam. His Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) embarks on an ambitious Poor People's Campaign. In the midst of political organizing, King detours to support striking sanitation workers in Memphis, where he is assassinated. King's death and the failure of his final campaign mark...
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From Boston's African Meeting House, founded in 1804, to Birmingham and Montgomery in the 1960s, this film tells the story of the African-American church in America. Meet former slave Richard Allen, who founded the African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church, leading his first worship services in a Philadelphia blacksmith shop; and Absalom Jones, who became the nation's first ordained black clergyman. Their vision personified the courage and community...
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