Martin, James
Summary: Follows James Martin, a Jesuit priest and the author of the book of the same title, who advocates that Catholic leaders accept and relate to their LGBT church members, encouraging respect, compassion, and sensitivity towards these fellow Catholics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gravitas Ventures Llc 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Shows all ten religious structures designed by Wright: Unity Temple in Oak Park, Ill., Pettit Chapel in Belvidere, Ill., Pfeiffer Chapel and Danforth Chapel in Lakeland, Fla., Community Christian Church in Kansas City, Mo., Unitarian Meeting House in Madison, Wis., Beth Shalom Synagogue in Elkins Park, Pa., Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church in Wauwatos, Wis., Pilgrim Congregational Church in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Reel Shop Productions 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SACSummary: An intimate portrait of job-seekers desperately chasing the broken American Dream to the tiny oil boom town of Williston, North Dakota. With the town lacking the infrastructure to house the overflow of migrants, a local pastor starts the controversial 'overnighters' program, allowing down-and-out workers a place to sleep at the church. His well-meaning project immediately runs into resistance...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF OVESummary: In 2015, Pope Francis wrote Laudato Si', a letter to every single person in the world, confronting the looming calamity of human impact on Earth and ourselves. It is one of the most ambitious and revolutionary papal statements in history since it is directed not just to Catholics, but to everyone on the planet and it outlines the most critical environmental and social issues that we...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LETSummary: The true story of the most notorious pediphile priest in the modern history of the Catholic church. Amy Berg travels to Ireland where Father Oliver O'Grady now lives free under church protection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DELSummary: A road trip though the creative spirit of the American South, a world of churches, prisons, coal mines, and mountains, with alternative country musician and songwriter Jim White acting as tour guide. Presents a collage of stories and testimonies while a strange Southern Jesus looms in the background.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC SEASummary: National headlines blazed the story: Churchgoers Gunned Down During Prayer Service in Charleston. South Carolina. After a 21-year-old white supremacist opened fire in Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, nine African Americans lay dead, leaving their families and the nation to grapple with this senseless act of terror. Featuring intimate interviews with survivors and family members. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EMASummary: Investigates the secret crimes of Father Lawrence Murphy, a Milwaukee priest who abused more than 200 deaf children in a school under his control. The film documents the first known public protest against the pontiff himself. The investigation helped uncover documents from the secret Vatican archives that show the Pope, who must operate within the mysterious rules of the Roman Curia, as both...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docuramafilms 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MEASummary: A searing indictment of the Mormon Church's historic involvement in the promotion and passage of California's Proposition 8, and the Mormon religion's secretive, decades-long campaign against gay rights.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Wolfe Video 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EIGSummary: Bonus material for the documentary 'The Crusades: crescent & the cross.' Includes a behind-the-scenes featurette, bonus documentary, and timeline.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV CRUSummary: Just outside of Dallas, Texas a violent haunted house is serving as the pulpit for a modern-day fire and brimstone sermon. Taking the viewer behind the scenes, this documentary examines why this small town church has resorted to such graphic means of saving souls and allows us a brief glimpse of what they believe they're saving us from.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Plexifilm 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HELSummary: Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí (1852-1926) designed some of the world's most astonishing buildings, interiors, and parks; Japanese director Hiroshi Teshigahara constructed some of the most aesthetically audacious films ever made. Their artistry melds in a unique, enthralling cinematic experience. Teshigahara's film takes viewers on a tour of Gaudí's truly spectacular architecture, including his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC ANTSummary: The surreal and shocking world of the controversial cult leader Reverend Fred Phelps and his hate group. Includes interviews and rare Phelps footage and allows viewers to reexamine the quintessentially American right of free speech.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FALSummary: Utilizing historical documents and interviews with scholars and churchmembers, this multi-part PBS documentary chronicles the formation and development of the Mormon Church.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MORSummary: Interviews, performances, and footage from church services illustrate the story of soul singer Al Green, who gave up a successful singing career to become a gospel singer and Pentecostal preacher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GOSSummary: Examines the role played by the American evangelical movement and the International House of Prayer megachurch in the state-sanctioned persecution of homosexuals in Uganda.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GODSummary: With editing completed by filmmaker Ken Kobland after the death of director/producer Marion Cajori, this movie describes the life and work of an artist who has reinvented portraiture. Close photographs his subjects, blows up the image to gigantic proportions, divides it into a detailed grid and then uses a complex set of colors and patterning to reconstruct each face. The artist describes his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arthouse Films 2010