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This week on NOW:
In an American religious climate growing increasingly fundamentalist, increasingly conservative, and increasingly intolerant of difference, New York City's Riverside Church is a beacon, and a remarkable house of God. A tower of steel and stone, it has become a monolithic skyscraper in America's religious landscape and a towering comfort to those who worship there. An oasis of diversity, Riverside is a thoroughly American Protestant church. In its preeminent pulpit resides Reverend James Forbes, shaped by the inequities of racism, guided by a different religious impulse than many of his contemporaries, and buoyed by a seemingly boundless spiritual reserve.
In “Speaking to Power” NOW with Bill Moyers tells the story of this extraordinary place of worship and profiles its spiritual leader, whose candid observations of contemporary public policy and religious doctrine stand in marked contrast to fundamentalist Christianity. Revealed in this compelling 60-minute documentary are subtle and profound changes in the religious fabric of America, and the prospects for peace and tolerance in troubled times.
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