In 2010, PBS: Frontline-American Experience, broadcast a three-part series entitled God in America. The series followed a strict timeline highlighted by events that helped shape and steer the country at various times, and in various ways, with varying results. The very production is one of those constant reminders that the question God is perpetually apart of the cultural and political conscious.
The producers of this captivating documentary succeed in historicizing the importance of God and religion in our country’s formation and discourse. The series also succeeds in making the viewer conscious of the impact that faith has in society, economics, politics, culture, war, and race matters.
If I may now share a more personal motivation in recommending the watching of the series, it would be because of its presentation of the critical depiction of Christianity from the arena of African American Ecclesiology, and the churches contribution in America.
This series further led me to a pale place of critical thought. Considering the escalation of unbiblical trends and doctrine within the African American church experience over the past 30 years, one must question to what extent are we today manifesting the authentic, orthodox, biblical Christianity that has previously defined African American ecclesiology? Watch and wrestle.
The following link below has been provided for your viewing pleasure. Be blessed.
http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/
Posted by Z.M.D. McGregor
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