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Sword and Spirit: USA: The First Shall Be Last

on BBC Two England

The last of a six-part documentary series.

In America, half the nation goes to church on Sunday, Charles Elliott visits Memphis, Tennessee, and sees how many American Christians are rejecting the comfortable, conventional church that reinforces rather than challenges their way of life. Nancy Sehested believes 'Jesus would be down in the poor areas of our city, with the AIDS victims, the battered women, the alcoholics...' But as a new Christian Left emerges, the fundamentalists fight back.
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Presenter:
Charles Elliott
Interviewee:
Nancy Sehested
Photography:
John Goodyer
Sound:
Ron Keightley
Film Editor:
Dick Pull
Executive Producer:
Stephen Whittle
Director:
Ann Richardson

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