United Methodist General Commission on Archives and History (GCAH)
The General Commission on Archives and History (GCAH) gathers, preserves, and disseminates materials on the history of The United Methodist Church and its antecedents. It maintains archives and a library in which the historical records are kept.
Randomly chosen program from the General Commission on Archives and History:
| Why Do We Like James Bond? |
Speaker(s): James Wall, Russ Gibb (host) |
Description: Interview following the 3rd James Bond Movie, "Goldfinger". The Rev. James M. Wall edited the influential Christian Century magazine from 1972 through 1999 and later served as its Senior Contributing Editor. He continues to contribute articles on religion, culture and film. He is the author of Church and Cinema (Eerdmans, 1971), editor of Three European Directors (Eerdmans, 1972), and has lectured widely on film and theology at universities and film festivals. Wall has served as a representative of the National Council of Churches to the film industry and on the appeals board of the Ratings Board of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). He is president of North American Interfilm, an organization that conducts workshops and seminars for church groups, and assigns members to serve on ecumenical juries at secular film festivals in Berlin, Montreal and Cannes. Wall was named the 2001 "Alumnus of the Year" by the University of Chicago Divinity School. | Length: 53:37 | Recording Date: 9/28/1965 | Recorded at: Night Call Studio at WKNR - Dearborn, Michigan |
