> >SPEAKING TO POWER: A NOW with Bill Moyers Special Edition
>>Friday, December 26 at 9PM on PBS
>>(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html)
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>>SPEAKING TO POWER - a NOW with Bill Moyers special edition
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>>* From one of America's most historic churches a resounding voice
>>speaks to power. NOW profiles a unique Christian vision.
>>
>>Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, leaders of America's
>>religious right have filled the airwaves with calls denouncing Islam
>>as a religion, promoting a belligerent American foreign policy, and
>>advocating closer ties between church and state. To much of the
>>press and country, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, and their
>>fundamentalist brethren are the face of American Christianity and
>>their drumbeat of Biblical literalism has become the most familiar
>>refrain of the Christian gospel.
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>>But a different Christian voice is challenging the monolith of the
>>religious right and speaking to America and its leaders in language
>>reminiscent of the Hebrew prophets and on behalf of a vision of
>>social justice that many Christians trace to the teachings of Jesus
>>himself. That voice belongs to an African-American son of
>>Pentecostal parents who grew up in the segregated south and rose to
>>occupy one of the most preeminent pulpits in the country-the very
>>church, as paradox would have it, started by John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Since Bob Feldman isn't here, I'll channel him: Aha! See!! Rockefeller!!! Co-opting revolution with spiritaulity from beyond the grave!!!!
Doug