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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Art of faith is a visually sumptuous series exploring the architecture and art of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Each program is presented and narrated by the broadcaster John McCarthy, who visits many of the greatest and most significant religious buildings of the world. Art of faith: Christianity locations for Christianity include Saint Catherine's monastery at the foot of Mt Sinai, San Vitale in Ravenna, the cathedrals of Durham and Chartres,...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
At its heart a detective story, as Carroll journeys into his own past (his father was a U.S. Air Force General who helped prepare for nuclear war) and into the wider world, were he uncovers evidence of church-sanctioned violence against non-Christians.
4) War room
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A wise elderly woman shows a Christian family in turmoil how to create a war room as a prayerful place in their home.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
If there is one genre of art that seems to have played a greater role than any other, it is the nude. For at least 30,000 years, humans have represented the naked form in a variety of ways. From the ideal to the real, the romantic to the surrealist, there have been almost no end of works devoted to the unclothed human body. This series - presented by writer and broadcaster Tim Marlow - will examine those artworks, the societies that produced them...
Publisher
Pure Flix Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Five strangers find themselves stuck in a deserted roadside diner. Each has their own set of problems and wants more out of life. The answers to their prayers come in the form of a diner owner, who just happens to be a Nazarene. He only asks that they trust him and follow his words to happiness.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Does God really condemn loving homosexual relationships? Is the chasm separating Christianity from gays and lesbians too wide to cross? Is the Bible an excuse to hate? These questions and more are answered in this award-winning documentary, which brilliantly reconciles homosexuality and Biblical scripture – and reveals that religious anti-gay bias is based almost solely upon a misinterpretation of the Bible. Through the experiences of five very...
10) Saved by Grace
Publisher
Skipstone Pictures Production
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A retired police officer, despondent over a tragic loss, and being estranged from his son, contemplates a dramatic decision of which will change his life forever, until he meets a mysterious woman who, through her personal stories, gives him a reason to examine what is most important to him. --Back cover.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This astonishing exploration of the dark side of Christianity follows former priest James Carroll on a journey of remembrance and reckoning. Carroll, a National Book Award winner, is a practicing Catholic whose search for the truth leads him to confront persecution and violence in the name of God – today and in the Church’s past. He discovers a terrible legacy that reverberates across the centuries: from the Emperor Constantine’s vision of the...
12) God's not dead
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A college freshman who is very religious must debate the existence of God with his college professor who believes otherwise in order to earn a passing grade.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Shot in 1976, but never released, this film is a rare visual document of the Tarahumara - one of the most remote and isolated tribes of the North American continent. Filmed during a gathering at the mission village of Norogachic of northwest Mexico, the nomadic Tarahumara are observed celebrating their special interpretation of the Easter Festival.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the sixteenth century Portuguese Catholic missionaries introduced Christianity to Japan. The religion flourished for about fifty years, but by 1614 the Tokugawa government issued an edict that outlawed Christianity and expelled the missionaries from Japan. About 150,000 believers went underground and continued to practice their religion in secret.
15) Flywheel
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
When a dishonest used car salesman must return money to customers, he and his family are affected spiritually in ways he could not have predicted.
16) Equality U
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Examining the complicated relationships between schools, religion, and human rights, Equality U is a feature-length documentary following a group of 33 young activists on the Soulforce Equality Ride, a first of its kind, two-month, cross-country tour to confront anti-gay discrimination policies at 19 conservative religious and military colleges. Against the backdrop of the Equality Ride, the film focuses on seven of the 'Equality Riders' and two courageous...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The New Black boldy examines the controversial and challenging issues the African-American community is grappling with the gay rights issue in light of the recent gay marriage movement and the fight over civil rights. The film documents activists, families and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize gay marriage and examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar—the black church and reveals the Christian right wing’s...
18) Life of Brian
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is caught up in the new religion and reluctantly mistaken...
19) God's country
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Beautiful and ambitious investment banker Meghan Doherty has an assignment to close a deal that could make her career. All she needs to do is travel to the Mojave desert and get the land rights for God's Country, an isolated Christian retreat in foreclosure. But the faithful minister who owns the property refuses to consider her offer until she agrees to spend six days learning about his ministry.
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