and they contain secret gospels such as the gospel of thomas the gospel of philip.lso contain conversations between jesus and his disciples that claim to go back to jesus and his disciples-- all kinds literature from the early christian era, a whole discovery of text rather like the new testament, but also very different. >> christianity, or one would rather say christianities of the second and third centuries were, again, a highly variegated phenomenon. we really can't imagine christianity as a unified, coherent, religious movement. >> we probably ought to think of it as a kind of regional diversity. that is, the christianity of rome was different than christianity in north africa in certain ways, and that was different from what we find in egypt, and that different from what we find in syria or back in palestine. >> narrator: some of the oldest christian communities were in western turkey, where paul and his followers had established many of the earliest congregations. at the end of the first century, christians here found themselves in aonfrontation with roman po

gospels.e be long in a library. they were copied and read by the monks. the archbishop sent a letter out to the monks and said you can keep 27 of them. the other books that he told them to destroy were hidden. >> the gnostic gospels and their stories about jesus remained hidden for nearly 1600 years. they were discovered by an egyptian farmer digging for fertilizer. over the centuries other streers were written by jesus they were known as the apock federal -- apocryphal gospels. professor of religious studies california state university. >> they believe just like christians do jesus was born to mary who was a virgin. mary is the only woman mentioned by name in the koran. is mentioned more by name in the koran than in the new testament. >> of the four new testament gospels only two feature the nativity story. the gospel according to luke tells the roman emperor augustus caesar journey from nazareth to bethlehem wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger. in the gospel according to matthe

project began while i was writing, people getting ready, history of black gospel music.writing about these songs that were the foundation of most american popular music in many ways, i would dils cover that all these people would cite a song and then i would go to try to hear it but it was not available, i couldn't get it on ebay, couldn't get it on amazon, it was not available. and this went on over and over again. so i -- at the end of the writing of the book i contacted a few of my friends i'd made while writing the book who are big collectors. i said, what percentage of the golden age of gospel music -- what percentage of that music is available to the public right now? and we all put our heads together and we came up with a figure of around 75% of it is not available. either doesn't exist, it's been destroyed, been lost, it's tied up in litigation, or the companies that own it have no intention on releasing it. a number of factors came up with that figure. i was so angry about that because this is the music of my childhood, my soundtrack of my life had been gospel m

. ♪ ♪ >> i can only speak for myself as to why i think gospel music resonates to such a degree even nowen -- the music from the '30s and '40s no less than very current gospel artists right now seems to me has a certain almost undefinable something. i would say black music in general has an underpinning of the pain and freedom struggle of african-americans which continues through to this day. why it never really goes out of style. it has this longing and this resonance of a deeper pool of emotion th emotion than songs about puppy love and songs about why i have a bigger car than somebody else has or -- can't match. when you're talking act a music that sustained an entire race of people through some some of the most brutal times in american history, civil war era and before, right through the civil rights movement and on, you're dealing with the music, with a gravity and emotional core that makes it more potent. one of the fascinating things as i started working on what would become nothing but love in god's water, the influence of black sacred music on the civil rights movement, was that

to they preach different gospels? et megachurch has a reputation to be nondenominational, optimistic , media's savvy, but for the most part numbers rise many if not most are to put the small or they just barely hit the threshold. but prosperity megachurch to look for face is not just spoken or trust and then to draw back blessings you look for health and wealth. in victory is that puts a spinning globe into every logo just teh's things are about to get better just to separate those four things that would separate. >> host: how important our spouses? >> guest: extremely there is a litmus test to see a sad man standalone they want a beautiful long haired wife it is a great wide to divided the ministry the women can do with many of children and the bank to do the heavy spiritual lifting and became popular in the '80s and is a trend almost in all churches today. >> host: to the minister's flaunt their wealth? >> guest: absolutely. but do in a tasteful way. recently there was some flak for advertising from his helicopter b

i think that the birth narratives are inserted into the gospels, into two of the gospels because only two of them have births in there and they're not the same narrative. i think the birth narratives were insert erred in order to connect jesus of judah, because to be descend from king david hey had to have the -- >> historical facts can help speculate about the route. >> the main we from north to south through this country always, even today, was along the coast. that is going to take you far out of the way that you have to go. especially if you're going from nazareth to bethlehem. >> the coastal route, was already a centuries old trade route. also the romans main thoroughfare and a good reason the holy family would have avoided going that way. >> the easier way would simply be to cut south through the interior hill country, and then by the area of jerusalem to bethlehem, basically following the rim that cuts through the so-called west bank today. the interior is hard because it's hilly, mountainous, rugged, and if the situation is unstable, then security on the roads is not going to

the gospel is your health. the gospel is your wealth. the gospel is your safety. the gospel is your preservation. the gospel is your family's protection. it's the success of your marriage. the gospel is the power of god unto your salvation. and the word "salvation" in the greek is all covering every area, all-encompassing salvation. save you not just from hell. it saves you from self. it saves you from disease and sickness. it saves you from addictions. it saves you from--sometimes, you know, self is one of the biggest problems that exists, church? and many of us, we are--even when we come to god, we are still very conscious of what is in our heart, and we're not very conscious of what is in his heart. and we forget that when we come to god, conscience, listen, conscience and faith. faith makes you conscious of god and his love for you, all right? but conscience makes you aware of yourself and the uncleanness and the sin that in u. so conscience makes cowards of us all. amen? conscience cause you to pull back from god. now some people think conscience it's good to

.'" >> narrator: ...and then retold in accounts by later believers in the gospels. >> "the gospel according to st. luke." >> narrator: so began the building of a religion. now it is our turn, with the help of scholars and historians, theologians and archaeologists, to return to that time and use our best efforts to understand that story... of a man born in obscurity in whose name a faith was made. >> narrator: we know so little about him-- that he was born more than 2,000 years ago, and that he lived in palestine. we know he was baptized and became a preacher. and we know that he was publicly executed. >> ( dramatized ): what manner of man is this that even the winds and the seas obey him? >> narrator: with so little evidence to go by, archaeologists must sift the clues, and scholars decode the stories told by the first followers of jesus. >> the problem for any historian in trying to reconstruct the life of jesus is simply that we don't have sources that come from the actual time of jesus himself. >> the historian's task in understanding jesus and the jesus movement and early christianity

thing love is surely gospel ♪ ♪ love my love thing love is surely gospel ♪ ♪ love my love thing lovel ♪ ♪ love my love thing love is surely gospel ♪ ♪ love of my love thing love is surely gospel ♪ ♪ love my love thing love is surely gospel ♪ ♪ love my love thing love is surely gospel ♪ [ applause ] >> for more information on today's show, visit taf i smiviy at pbs.org. >>> join me next time for a conversation with renee russo for her movie "night did crawl -- "nightcrawler." that's next time. see you then. money? >> the california endowment, health happens in neighborhoods. learn more. >> and by characteristics to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ >> hello, welcome to "this is us." i'm becca king reid on top of mount hamilton at the observatory. we're going to take you inside and give you a look at a telescope built here in the 19th everyone isry. of course, a von is hers are still up here studying the heavens and we'll show you the newer telescopes as well and you will meet the founder of word press, who turned down a fortune to save an idea and dr. jill tarter, f

the music from the 30's afforded great less than the gospel artists right now, seems to me to have atain almost undefinable something. i would say that black music in general has an underpinning of pain and freedom struggle of african-americans that continues to this day. it never really goes out of style. longing and this residence of a deeper pool of a motion with songs about why i have a bigger car than someone else. it cannot match. when you are talking about the music of sustained a race of people through the most brutal times in american history, for example the civil war era, onwards, you are dealing with the music of a gravity and an emotional core. one of the most fascinating things that happened when i started working on what would wasme love and god's water that from the beginning the spirituals were really protest spirituals. so many of them had a double voice in them that meant that on the surface they might be about heaven, they might be about escaping to the north, they might be about escaping to the north. the messages were intertwined unless you were part of the cent

the soundtrack to my life had been gospel music, but i'd only heard such a narrow portion of it. a very angry editorial, and i sent it to "the new york times" which gets about 800 a day, and lo and behold, they ran it in february of 2005. and the next day a gentleman named charles royce from new york called and said i think what you're talking about is important. you figure out a way to help save this music, and i'll pay for it. and with the library's technical help, came up with this state of the art digitization lab, scanners, cataloging, storing, all the stuff that we needed and came back with a pretty scary figure. sent it to mr. royce, and he sent us a check. so it began partly out of my frustration and partly out of mr. royce's generosity of trying to save something that he didn't know much about, you know? another white guy, episcopal in connecticut. we've had wonderful donors who have helped to continue with the process. the pritchard family foundation and others have helped us pay for things we didn't know we needed then and should have asked for more money, and thousand

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now, first off, gospel music was not widely heard in the white community.t it was, it would only be the hits, if that. but the b or flip side would be heard even less. and what we discovered quickly was how many of the b side songs were directly related to the civil rights movement. >> here's a freedom song for all you freedom fighters out there everywhere. and when you sing, remember the wonderful ones who lost their dedicated lives for this precious presence and won't be around to see it through. now sing, sing, every one of you. ♪ well, sometime i wonder is there a freedom in this world? ♪ ♪ sometimes i wonder, is there a freedom in this world? ♪ sometime i wonder, is there a freedom in this world? ♪ well, then where, tell me where, where is freedom? >> since there's very few databases and none of them are complete on all gospel music -- we didn't know that. we didn't know the sheer number of songs that had very overt song like "there ain't no segregation in heaven," type songs. at a time when possessing one of those songs, much less singing it, was a ve

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it comes from the gospel? what i'm am saying to all of you today is: as we talk about memories, as we talk about the living spirit, i hope that all of you understand that you should never give up. that is not even to be considered. instead, this is all about the day you started to fight. this is about today. this is about using that 50 years of triumph as fuel to boost community action to new heights, to new standards, to new excellence, to new abilities to help people in need and in fact to turn away from all the naysayers come all the questioners, because you are too busy. because guess what? you have your eyes on the prize. thank you very much. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] ramos funeral for rafael was held today in new york. he was one of two officers fatally shot last week. thousands from the new york police department attended today's service along with police officers from other precincts around the country

welcome to our monday's broadcast of the gospel truth. you know, this is our christmas week and i tell you, this is a great time of the year just to remember all the awesome, awesome things that god did in sending hiso

>> yeah. >> reporter: a gospel album, he says.sics? >> yeah. >> reporter: now, that would be cool. ♪ those autumn leaves drifts by my window ♪ ♪ all them leaves red and gold ♪ yeah! >> if you ever find yourself in memphis, tennessee, on a sunday morning, you must go to the full gospel tabernacle church and see al green preach and sing. it is something to make sure you put on your bucket list. >> i can't believe you got your own private concert there. that's pretty unbelievable. >> you know what, it's one of the special things in my life is to sit there and have al green singing. >> and he sounds amazing. >> better than ever. you can see al green and all of the recipients right here on cbs. >>> how a simple act of american kindness is helping kids stayy one step ahead of which means it's timeson for the volkswagen sign-then-drive event. for practically just your signature, you could drive home for the holidays in a german-engineered volkswagen. like the sporty, advanced new jetta... and the 2015 motor trend car of the year all-new

welcome to our tuesday's broadcast of the gospel truth.w, this is our christmas week and again, i just want to say, merry christmas to all of you wherever you're watching this program. you know, this is a great time to spend with your family and to do things, but don't forget that man, the reason for the season

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and we need to look at the gospel and the teaching of our church, and see how we can help people fromthey're at, to grow. >> pelley: you are abundantly aware of the urgent concerns that many catholics have about the sex abuse scandals, about financial scandals at the vatican, about the role of women in the church. what are we going to see, in your estimation, from this pope on those very important matters? >> lacroix: just mentioning the sex scandal, excuse me, always touches me... because of lack of coherence and because of sin. so many people have been hurt in the united states, in canada, in many other parts of the world. and that is absolutely scandalous, unacceptable. you talked about difficulties in economics, in the way we handle money, properties. he was, right from day one very, very involved in making sure that those things change. >> pelley: the pope surprised people in a news conference when he said, "if someone is gay and searching for the lord and has good will, then who am i to judge him?" the pope has written that the church has a false sense of security with "rules th

ofre are very few databases gospel music.y overt songs like " there ain't no segregation in heaven." possessing one of those songs much less singing it was a dangerous thing in the deep south. you could get in trouble for a lot of things but singing that song out loud, that's a risk. >> the texas ranger hall of fame is set up in 1976 for the 175th anniversary of the rangers and honors 30 rangers who have made major contributions to the service or gave their lives under her relic circumstances. we have paintings and portraits of all those rangers. begin with stephen f austin. he is very successful with his rangers. toy fought not only managed make the area reasonably safe for settlement from indian raids but when the texas war for independence broke out, the rangers played a major role with texas gaining its independence by saving -- by staving off the mexican army long enough to allow the colonists to build their own army and develop a strategy. as a result, texas became its own independent nation, the republic of texas for a

>> yeah. >> reporter: a gospel album, he says.ou want to do an album of classics? >> yeah. >> that would be cool. ♪ ♪ autumn leaves drift by my window ♪ ♪ the autumn leaves are red and gold ♪ >> if you ever find yourself in memphis, tennessee, on a sunday morning you must go to the full gospel tabernacle church and see al green preach and sing. it is something to make sure you put on your bucket list in your lifetime. >> i can't believe you got your own private concert. that's pretty unbelievable. >> you know what, it's one of the really special things in my life to sit there and have al green since. >> he sounds just as amazing. >> better than ever. you can see al green and all the recipients of the 37th annual kennedy honors tuesday on cbs. >>> coming up, how a simple act of american kindness is helping kids stay one step ahead,, 2349 ♪ >>> it is one of the heartbreaking realities of the isis rampage through iraq and syria. more than 100,000 children are among the 1 million people forced to escape into northern iraq. but margare

>>> they learned what life on the road was like as members of a gospel singing group. they've turned that experience into a luxury tour bus company that pop stars are going gaga over. how their musical experience made them transportation entrepreneurs. that's coming up next on "your business." >>> small businesses are revitalizing the economy. and american express open is here to help. that's why we are proud to present "your business" on msnbc. >>> hi, everyone. i'm j.j. ramberg and welcome to "your business." brothers trent and hoey hemphill know a thing or two about buses. growing up as part of the gospel group the hemphills they traveled millions of miles on their family bus which was perfect training for launching a luxury coach company when they left their music careers. pioneers in the entertainment bus industry their commitment to exceeding expectations on every tour, every time, has resulted in a client list that's a who's who of musicians, actors and politicians. if you've ever wondered how lady gaga, justin timberlake, rihanna, britney spears, aerosmith, che

since there are very few of gospel music, we did not know that.e did not know the sheer number of songs that had overt tones, like "there ain't no segregation in heaven" type of songs. singing was a dangerous thing in the deep south. you could get killed for a lot of things in the deep south, but singing that sort of song out loud, that is a risk. >> the texas ranger hall of fame was setup in 1976 for the 175th anniversary of the rangers and honors, at this point, 30 rangers who made major contributions through service or gave their lives under her rohit circumstances. we have paintings or portraits of all those rangers. austingin with stephen f . he was very successful with his rangers. only, managed to make the area reasonably safe for settlement from indian raids, but when the texas war for independence broke out, the rangers played a major role in texas gaining its independence by a staving off the mexican army long enough to allow the colonists to build their own army and develop a strategy. as a result, texas became its own, independent nati

the behind the scenes thing, the practical things, but also the why of what we do, spreading the gospel of jesus in the archdiocese of san francisco. you're a vicar of the administration and moderator of the kyrie. can you explain what those things mean? >> i can. i want to explain to people where we are. a lot of people don't know where it is. we're kitty corner to the cathedral. right across the way, i see it from my window every day. >> right so we're right there. the vicar for administration moderator of the kyrie is a big mouthful. if i have to explain what it is in normal terms is i'm the chief operating officer, so in a corporation i would be the chief operating officer and the archbishop would be the chief executive officer. so my whole focus is on doing what he wants, but then also serving the parishes. that is the main objective of what takes place in the chancery is support operations for the parishes in areas of human resources and finance and making sure everything is done properly and out reach to young adults to a grieving parent. many different areas. to support the each

welcome to our wednesday's broadcast of the gospel truth. today i'm continuing a series on taking the limits off of god and i tell you, this has transformed my life and i believe that as i share these things ov

. >> stephen: no, we have saved the best for last, to paraphrase the gospel. five time-- u.s. senator. >> what chapter in the book was that? >> stephen: save the best for last. >> yeah. >> stephen: as the marriage at cana when he turns the water into wine, the wine that he makes out of the water is passed around to the guests and they say thousand hasth saved the best for last. how are you going to appeal to christian conservatives if you don't know your gospel, sir? >> now at this-- now at this remember, thank you for refreshing my memory. >> stephen: thank you. thank you, father mccain. now how was your thanksgiving. i know you are a big griller, did you grill your own turkey. >> not one, not two, but four fried turkeys an accident set the deck on fire once. >> stephen: congratulations. >> deep-fry your turkeys, my friends, you will never go back to anything else it is kind of addictive, a little bit like some substances that you used to tuesday. >> stephen: we agreed backstage we wouldn't talk about my crack habit. >> there we go. >> stephen: now sir, you h

and the second night i heard the gospel. >> our scripture tonight is taken from amos the fourth chapternd the 12th verse we read these words prepare to meet thy god. >> and he started to quote scripture and i said, i don't need you to tell me i'm a sinner. i know i'm a sinner. then he said a couple of unique things that really stabbed me in the heart. >> i do not believe that any man can solve the problems of life without jesus christ. there are tremendous marital problems. there are physical problems. there are financial problems. there are problems of sin and effort that cannot be solved outside of the person of our lord jesus christ. >> all of my near death experiences my life never passed before my life. but when he quoted scripture my life passed before my eyes and when he mentioned people in serious trouble almost all turn to god in prayer. was i in serious trouble? yeah. did i have serious problems? yes. that crash and life after and so forth. and you pray, what do you do in prison camp? you pray morning, noon and night. get me home alive and i'm seek you, i'll serve you. i'd nev

the gospel of jesus cris is part of the gospel and i'm excited to join with brothers and sisters acrosson and saying that black lives mat and of course all lives matter but right now our black brothers and sisters are really hurting, and it's important that we stand with them at this time. >> you heard pastor mike saying how grayful he is plaque and white folks coming together to do this. pastor chris what do you think the impact will be overall of seeing churches, regardless of race, come together for this movement? >> well, i think one church under god will change our nation. the church of jesus christ is to be a church of all people and when the church is loving each other deeply, learning each other's realities, that has implications for society. segregated church leads to a segregated society, and segregated church simply is a new testament church. >> pastor mike, help us understand if, what the action will be. when there are elections there are souls to the polls. you take people out of the church and take them to the polls. will there be action outside of the sanctuary in getting

welcome to our monday's broadcast of the gospel truth. this week i am going to continue a series that i started last week talking about don't limit god. i've got a brand new book out on this by that title. the subtitle is imagine yourself successful, and last week i ed

i was on the fence about it before because it's only one gospel, you know, the magi is only in one gospelit's an allegory but now i do. are you, on christmas, as agnostic, all right? are you going to go to midnight mass? are you going to do anything? are you going to be spiritual at all? >> i will sing christmas carols. >> what's your favorite one? >> the first noel. >> you know the words to the first noel? no, you don't. i will believe you. >> actually, joy to the world. >> joy to the world. and you will sing those songs? >> i will. i love sipping. >> i want video of stossel singing those. i'm not buying this. i want to wish you a merry christmas. did you name the bear that you sleep with? does it have a name? >> we got this on craig's list after i saw it on your christmas store. >> that's one of the hottest items on bill o'reilly.com. >> half price. >> then charity doesn't get any money. >> you scrooge. you only gave me a day's notice. >> john stossel, everybody. don't give him anything for christmas. plenty more ahead as the factor moves along this evening. charles krauthammer on wheth

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mayor elect the city council officials and ministers of the gospel, for all the youth.hank you. give her another hand, please. and for her mother for whom she got the voice. stand up, jackie. that's jackie's daughter, too. ii timothy 4. my departure is at hand, i have finished my course and kept the faith. ofceforth there is a crown righteousness, which the lord the righteous judge should give me that day but not to me only but to all them that love his appearing." that's the blue ribbon, the ticket to the kingdom. i want to talk a minute about crown of jewels on marion's head. there is a song that says "watch ye therefore. you know not the day when the lord should call you away. if you fight striving for the right you should wear robe and crown i'm going to wear a crown when the tropic sounds -- when the trumpet sound s put on my robe and glory. i'm going to wear a crown." be authentic, it must be authentic. where he was born in mississippi, a con plantation, 1936, 18 years before the brown decision. 19 years before the lynching -- was eight 1955 which year before the

from the gospel? to all of youg today is, as we talk about as we talk about the allng spirit, i hope that of you understand that you give up.ver even to be considered. about thehis is all day you started to fight. today. about this is about using that 50 of triumph as fuel to boost community action to now new standards, to new excellence, to new abilities in need and in the to turn away from all naysayers, all the questioners, because you're too busy, because -- guess what -- you've got your eyes on the prize. thank you very much. [applause] ten years program is old now and to mark a decade of conversations, we're featuring one interview from each year of the series over this holiday season. president of the university of houston on u.s. competitiveness and the global economy and the role of colleges in preparing youth for the work place. todayn see that interview at 7 p.m. eastern on c-span. and right after that, remarks supreme courtand alito as they o discuss the bill of rights. >> on the one hand,

world, emmanuel, god with us, and now, here's gospel truth bible teacher >> andrew wommack. welcome to our christmas day broadcast of the gospel truth. praise god for sending his son jesus. thank god for jesus. man, what would the world be like without jesus?

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i'm writing one now. >> are you. >> yeah. >> a gospel album, he said.ou want to do american class classics. >> yeah. >> that would be cool. ♪ those autumn leaves drift by my window ♪ ♪ those autumn leaves are red and gold, yeah ♪ >> al does that a lot in the interview. he just starts singing. it's kind of amazing. >> you're right. his singing would be a big one. >> yeah, it's cool. one thing we didn't mention but i always loved it. every one of those '70s was recorded on the same microphone. it's microphone number 9. he doesn't even know what mike it is but it's the only mike he'll record on. >> still to this day. >> yeah. >> that's awesome. >> you bring us the stories of music. >> al green and all the recipients of the kennedy center honors on december 30th right here on cbs. >>> up next, the most unforgettable moments of the week. you're watching "cbs this and for many, it's a struggle to keep your a1c down. so imagine, what if there was a new class of medicine that works differently to lower blood sugar? imagine, loving your numbers. introducing once

they were told in the gospel to say this huge inequity was against the teachings of christ, that all people were equal and should love one another and the rich and poor should sit at the same table. and even though this is quite right from the gospel and martin luther was keen on going back to the scripture it caught no ice with him as far as the peasants should be slaughtered and killed. protestant christianity is the only form of religion that suits our modern conception of religion as an essentially private quest. but luther's aggression shows that there has also been immigration and secularism too. and we see that particularly in revolutionary france for example when the french during their revolution separate, wanted to get rid of the catholic church which was so intimately entwined with the old aristocratic order that they were pulling down. one of the first acts of the new national assembly was to confiscate all church property and put it over to the state and to abolish the religious orders. they followed that up a year later with the september -- when the mobs were let loose

databases, very rarely complete, on gospel music. we didn't know the sheer number ain't nolike, there segregation in heaven-type of songs. possessing that was a dangerous thing in the deep south. singing that kind of song out loud? that is a risk. >> the texas ranger hall of fame was set up in 1976 for the hundred 50th anniversary of the rangers and honors 30 rangers who made their contribution to the service or gave their lives under her wrote circumstances. we have paintings or portraits of all of those rangers. they really begin with stephen austin. austin was successful with his rangers. they not only managed to make forarea reasonably safe settlement from indian raids, but when the texas war for independence broke out, the rangers laid a major role in texas gaining its independence by staving off the mexican army long enough to allow the cause to build their own army and a strategy. texas became its own independent nation, the republic of texas, for a couple of years. c-span3. >> each week american history tv sits in on a lectur

they are left to try to disturb this change means for the gospel but they have no. how the hierarchy works behind the scenes to secure the passage of that bill. the document has shifted his own narrative towards a social justice agenda. the loss of the rule of law demonstrates how far the church has moved from its american roots. the agenda seems to be guided by trying to patronize the large latino constituency. as the church found it more difficult to gain the converts the officials increasingly focused the missionary activity on illegal immigrant community. both mainline and evangelicals try to append the alabama 56 law. i think what happened is pretty much the same thing that happened with catholics. they simply failed to see this narrative taking place. both organizations. the united methodists, episcopal and the groups that represent the evangelicals in the coalition and the national hispanic leadership conference. both organizations badly misjudged the extent to which the key party controls much of the agenda and debated contextualize their cause. that is stat

nearly 38 years now the baptist bishop has been preaching to his memphis congregation at the full gospeln his first for r&b in 2009. that year he also filled in at the last minute with justin timberlake afterry ryihanna and chris brown canceled. >> me and justin did "let's stay together" and we saved the world. not really but, you know we like to kind of you know, fluff on it and think that we -- we did help out a little bit. >> do you have another album in you? >> yeah, i'm writing one now. >> reporter: a gospel album, he says, after that al green wants to go back to the american song book. >> you want to do an album of classics? >> yeah. >> that would be cool. ♪ ♪ autumn leaves drift my by window ♪ ♪ autumn leaves red and gold ♪ >> al does that a lot of interview. he just starts singing. kind of amazing. >> you're right. him singing is going to be a big one. >> it would be cool. one of the things that we didn't mention this but i always loved it every one of those records in the '70s was recorded on the same microphone. it's still in royal studios in memphis. microphone number 9. al do

first off, gospel music was not widely heard in the white community and would only be the hits but the flip side would be even less, and we discovered how many of the b side songs were directly related to the civil rights movement since there's very few databases, none of them complete on gospel music, didn't know that. we didn't know the sheer number of songs that had -- very overt songs like, they're ain't know segregation in heaven, type songs, at a time when possessing one of those songs was very dangerous in the deep south. soon that sort -- singing that song outloud is a risk. >> the texas ranger hall of fame, set up in 1976 for the 175th anniversary of the rangers, and honors at this point 30 rangers who made major contributions to the service or gave their lives under heroic circumstances. we have paintings or portraits of all the rangers. they begin with steven a. austin. austin was very successful with his rangers. they fought not only managed to make the area reasonably safe for settlement from indian raid but when the texas war for independence broke out, the rangers played

welcome to our friday's broadcast of the gospel truth. today i'm ending my second week of teaching on the subject of don't limit god. this is a brand new book that i have out by that title and i tell you, these truths