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Turning Points Stories of Life and Change in the Church (2005) is a English movie. David Sampliner has directed this movie. Joanna Adams,Homer Ashby,Walter Brueggemann,Anita Calhoun are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2005. Turning Points Stories of Life and Change in the Church (2005) is considered one of the best Documentary movie in India and around the world.
Set in four segments, "Turning Points" looks at how individuals and congregations struggle with sexual orientation and their faith. The first segment, "Called to Serve," follows the Rev. Susie B. Smith, now serving a congregation in the UCC, returning to the congregation of her first call, North Anderson Community Church in Anderson, South Carolina. Together and separately, the congregation and Pastor Smith examine their losses and their gains when Susie left the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in order to be with her partner and to continue to serve as a minister In the second segment, "A Mother's Son," The Calhoun family explores the shock, the grief and the now strengthened families ties between them that were deeply tested when their son first came out. Among the challenges, the Calhouns were forced to chose between their congregation and their son. The third segment records the powerful reunion between two women who had parted under tragic circumstances years earlier. Now both ...
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Thoughtful, touching, and insightful
This documentary is actually 4 15-minute stories of how gay people have been received by their Christian communities. The stories are done in a sensitive manner, but they do not come across as propagandistic. Our churches have shown hardened hearts in their interactions with people who find themselves same-sex-attracted. The stories call for prayerful reflection to allow love, compassion, and hospitality guide our relations with gays and lesbians. One comment that struck me was a pastor who was attending to a man dying of AIDS. The man said that people thought of him only as a homosexual, as if his sexuality defined his entire being. In fact, like everyone else, he had a long list of hopes, fears, and desires that have nothing to do with sex. The pastor related that he denied seeing the man primarily in terms of homosexuality, but on later reflection he realized that he, too, was guilty of this narrow perspective.