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March 4, 2007
Amazing Grace the Film
The recently released film, Amazing Grace, is not just another entertaining film. It is a vignette of history, and a particular vignette that will interest anyone committed to religious values. I encourage everyone in our community to see the film. It portrays part of the life of William Wilberforce, specifically his crusade to end the slave trade in Great Britain in the late 18th and early 19th century. Wilberforce was a member of Parliament, a devout Methodist, and a close friend of the Prime Minister, William Pitt, the younger. His undaunted struggle to change British laws on the slave trade met with determined and long-standing resistance. Anyone committed to justice and loving kindness will find the film an inspiring and moving account of one man's heroic and sacrificial struggle to bring a little more justice to the world.
-Raymond Lawrence
Posted by Perry Miller, Editor at March 4, 2007 10:36 PM