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Wed Apr 10, 2013, 07:10 AM Apr 2013

Watch This Video and You May Have Some of Your Beliefs About Religion Challenged

http://www.alternet.org/visions/watch-video-and-you-may-have-some-your-beliefs-about-religion-challenged

An Evangelical leader who found his calling in the Civil Rights movement? A Pentecostal pastor organizing against mass incarceration? Far from the monolith the media portrays, Evangelicals aren’t all right-wingers and fundamentalists. They are diverse, complex, and undergoing change. Many are fighting for justice.

Summits on Tenth, a new Internet video series produced by AlterNet and the Nathan Cummings Foundation, features conversations that blast through conventional thinking on pressing contemporary issues. The first episode, “Evangelicals Building a Just America,” brings you Reverend Dr. Joel C. Hunter and Pastor Michael McBride --two dynamic church leaders that defy the public image of Evangelicals.

Simon Greer, CEO of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, uses his skills as an experienced organizer and leader to bring out some surprising insights from the Reverend and the Pastor.

Below, you can watch segments from the premier video of Summits on Tenth and below that, the full-length version embedded from the Summits on Tenth YouTube channel. What these leaders had to say may surprise and inspire you; it did for us. Thank you in advance for watching and sharing.



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Watch This Video and You May Have Some of Your Beliefs About Religion Challenged (Original Post) xchrom Apr 2013 OP
The world is far more complex than anything that can fit into a cartoon. Jim__ Apr 2013 #1
Nice try... rexcat Apr 2013 #2

rexcat

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2. Nice try...
Thu Apr 11, 2013, 11:41 AM
Apr 2013

with the proselytizing.

I get the fact that there are many sincere people in all endeavors of life but that does not make what they believe in something that I am going to embrace. Bottom line, the primary goal of the evangelical christian is to covert people so I take anything they say with some skepticism.

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