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One Day University presents a series of video lectures recorded in real-time from some of the top minds in the United States. Given by award-winning professors and experts in their field, these recorded lectures dive deep into the worlds of religion, government, literature, and social justice. No country has as many indigenous religions as the United States of America. Although we think of religion in colonial America and our religious past as being...
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Forms part of a series on world religions in which theater director Ronald Eyre travels around the globe asking people basic questions about their religious beliefs and practices. Vol. 8 visits the Torajas of Indonesia to investigate the experience of primal worship. Explores the reasons for the remarkable survival of the Torajas' religion at a time when other primal, animist religions are dying out as a result of contact with the outside world. Shows...
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Early Christianity faced powerful obstacles. The might of the Roman Empire and the power-politics of ancient Jerusalem laid a heavy burden on those who believed Jesus was "the Messiah." But this new faith would not die. In a brief span of time, the fledgling religion would transcend its origins in the provinces of Rome and absorb the capital of the empire itself. With the words of Paul and other ancient writers, interviews with contemporary scholars...
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"Beginning with the Crucifixion to the coming of the Crusades, traces the rise of one of the world's great religions. Scholars explore the intertwined fates of the Roman Empire and the faith it persecuted, then later adopted. Theologians reveal how the New Testament was shaped, how pagan festivals were transformed into Christian holidays, and how modern discoveries shed new light on the dawn of Christianity."--Container.
7) Mass appeal
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"Should a priest tell his congregation what they want to hear instead of the truth? Mass Appeal stars Jack Lemmon as Father Tim Farley, a complacent priest who drives a Mercedes and cracks jokes from the pulpit of a wealthy suburban parish. When idealistic Mark Dolson, a radical seminarian, accuses him of 'song and dance theology, ' the result is a head-on clash that teaches each man the true meaning of faith"--Container.
8) The cardinal
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Traces the career of a parish priest and his rise to the upper levels of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy.
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" ... a chilling examination of the unknown and sinister world of exorcism in the Catholic Church. Granted unprecedented access, filmmaker Fredrik Horn Akselsen brings the viewer into the mystical world of Catholic exorcism. Allowed to accompany one of the few Vatican approved exorcists, Father José Antonio Fortea, we experience the mystical rite through the story of Constanza, a Colombian woman who claims to have been possessed by demons for 15...
10) Full of Grace
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There is one person in scripture that had the experience of living thirty years with Jesus, from birth through His resurrection: Mary, His mother. After a full life lived with the Son of God, fleeing into Egypt, losing him in the temple, and seeing him placed upon the cross, Mary is living her final earthly days pondering her life with Jesus. Set ten years after the Resurrection, Mary eagerly awaits the return of the apostle Peter.
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Presents a history of Christianity from the time of Jesus to the end of the fourth century. Includes examination of Jewish-Christian relationships, Christian relationships with the Roman Empire, persecution of Christians, and the development of church offices and theology.
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In 2002, maintenance workers stumbled through an opening in one of the tunnel walls and discovered a previously unknown complex of six small rooms, each stacked floor to ceiling with skeletons. It was a mass grave, locked away for nearly 2,000 years. Who were these people? Why were so many interred in one place, piled atop each other? And most important, what killed them?
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Welcome back to the village of Kembleford, where Father Brown uses his personal blend of intuition, psychology, compassion and justice to solve another series of gripping crimes. Assisted as always by parish secretary Mrs. McCarthy, glamorous socialite Lady Felicia Montague and her accommodating chauffeur Sid Carter Father Brown faces threats to his town, his friends and his faith. An assassination attempt, an art heist, ritual sacrifice and murder...
15) The Mormons
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Dig deep into the Mormon past to understand the church today. One of America's fastest-growing religions and, relative to its size, one of the richest. Church membership, now at twelve million and growing, sweeps the globe. From the moment of its founding in 1830, the church has been controversial. In the early years Mormons were hated, ridiculed, persecuted and feared. In the past several decades, the Mormon Church has transformed itself from a fringe...
16) David Suchet: In the footsteps of St. Peter: the Poirot star explores Christianity's early years
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In this major two-part documentary series produced for the BBC, Suchet travels from Peter's humble Galilean birthplace to Jerusalem, where a terrified Peter denies his beloved friend and teacher on the eve of the crucifixion. Encounter Peter's miraculous post-resurrection transformation, discover the role Peter played in keeping the early church from splintering, and explore the question, what happened to Peter after he mysteriously vanished from...
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Parish priest Father Chuck O'Malley (Bing Crosby back after introducing the affable O'Malley in the 1944 film Going my way) is sent to revive a financially-ailing parochial school and immediately finds himself at odds with the no-nonsense Sister Benedict on how to educate the children. Beyond their battle of wits lies a bigger problem--the skinflint businessman next door wants St. Mary's condemned, so he can build a parking lot for his employees.
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Signing in the religious environment is challenging, even to the most experienced interpreter. This DVD offers some techniques for bringing visual imagery to the scripture readings, whether the interpreter is using ASL or a form of signed English. Seven lessons review basic skills such as placement, verb directionality, characterization, and classifier use, as well as glossing tips. Two short interpreted sermons are presented after the lessons incorporating...
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A simple God-seeking man, William Tyndale became one of the most wanted men in England and Europe. Pursued by King Henry VIII, Lord Chancellor Sir Thomas More, and the Pope's personal legate Cardinal Wolsey, he darted across Europe to avoid capture--always pushing to complete the task that obsessed him.