PBS World Channel: "An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story" and "Let There Be Light"
PBS World Channel: "An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story" and "Let There Be Light"
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An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story examines the career
and global impact of renowned American-born theologian Reinhold Niebuhr,
who became a voice of conscience to a country reaching the pinnacle of
its economic and political power. As the Great Depression gripped
America, he rocked the liberal Christian community with "Moral Man and
Immoral Society," which challenged the idea of inherent progress and
justice in history. During and after the war, Niebuhr helped establish
the infrastructure that gave Christian churches and thinkers a voice in
postwar politics, and proved instrumental in the effort to form the
World Council of Churches.
Through archival photos, recordings and interviews with his daughter,
former students, The New York Times writer David Brooks and civil rights
icon Andrew Young, the documentary also explores Niebuhr's influence
and impact on numerous leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr.,
President Barack Obama, and former President Jimmy Carter. With
revealing insights from academic experts who discuss his life and
influence, the stories capture Niebuhr's seminal role in American life.
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http://worldchannel.org/programs/epi...nhold-niebuhr/
On PBS World Channel: Sunday April 16, 2017, 9:00pm Eastern.
I don't care for the guest experts that appear in the program, but it
looks like the only program about Niebuhr that we will get from the
Media.
His career started in Detroit but Niebuhr is a completely forgotten man here.
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Niebuhr’s enormous influence on political thought, both inside and
outside the church, caused Hans J. Morgenthau, an eminent political
scientist, to say that Niebuhr was “the greatest living political
philosopher of America.” He was probably the most-popular preacher in
university chapels from the early 1920s to the early 1950s. Many
contemporary Christians trace their conviction that Christianity makes
sense to the influence of his preaching. He was not a specialized
scholar in any field, including theology, but his broad learning and his
original and incisive thought made him the subject of many theses and
other scholarly writings, and he exercised a seminal influence on
scholarship and thought in a variety of fields.
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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Reinhold-Niebuhr
PBS World Channel: "Let There Be Light"
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10:00 p.m. Eastern
Apr 16, TVG
Let There Be Light
Narrated by Garrison Keillor, LET THERE BE LIGHT follows the grand
masters of stained glass art, artist Rowan LeCompte and craftsman Dieter
Goldkuhle, as they create their last great series of windows for
Washington National Cathedral.
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, Rowan began making stained glass
windows at the age of 14 and designed his first window for Washington
National Cathedral (the sixth largest cathedral in the world, with more
than 200 stained glass windows), at the age of 16. He spent almost 70
years studying, drawing and creating architectural stained glass and
mosaics for a multitude of locations, including: Episcopal Cathedrals in
Maryland and Wyoming, the chapels of Trinity College and Princeton
University, and the New York State Capitol in Albany.
At the age of 81, Rowan was commissioned to produce what would be his
last series of windows for the monumental building. The project was
initially intended to take one year and be ready for the 2007 centennial
celebration of the cathedral's founding. Rowan would design and paint
this enormous window while Dieter, his long-time collaborator, would
select and cut the glass and do the leading and installation.
The documentary chronicles the fascinating creative process but also
captures how age begins to take its toll on Rowan. The window falls
behind dramatically schedule and the centennial deadline is missed.
Artistic differences and the slow pace of work causes a tension to
develop between artist and craftsman, and Dieter must eventually leave
the project because of other commitments. Six years in the making, LET
THERE BE LIGHT is told with stunningly beautiful imagery as it documents
Rowan's life-long passion, imagination and creativity in using glass
and light. Later, in a surprise reversal, an official Cathedral panel
questions installing the new windows at all.
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http://worldchannel.org/programs/epi...here-be-light/
On PBS World Channel: Sunday April 16, 2017, 10:00pm Eastern.
I remember visiting the National Cathedral during a public school
elementary school field trip and I thought it was a Catholic Cathedral. 
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"It's a free country; you can say whatever you want."
--Old American Saying
(U.S. Postal Service stamp-- from 1977 Americana series which extols
freedom of speech and features a Speaker's Stand decorated with an
American Flag shield.)
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