Program Randomly Chosen from the Collection:
Stripping the Dead | |
| Speaker(s): Emanuel Cleaver | |
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| Length: | 51:21 |
| Record Date: | 4/20/2008 |
| Audio Quality: | Excellent / Clear |
| Venue: | Fort Worth, Texas |
| Source: | United Methodist Church & Society |
| Faith Group: | Methodist / United Methodist |
Description: The Rev. Emanuel Cleaver (1944-) speaks to the General Board of Church and Society luncheon at General Conference 2008 in Fort Worth, Texas. Cleaver, a congressman from Missouri, is the former mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, and is a pastor of a United Methodist church in Kansas City. He said soaring gasoline prices, the home mortgage debacle, and the staggering cost of the Iraq War are hurting the nation's poorest the most.