Date/Time
Date(s) - Friday, November 8
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location
Chalice Sanctuary, Fellowship Hall, and Kitchen
Categories
Join us to view this award-winning documentary and for discussion to follow with
Pastor Rick Pearson, The Garden Church (North Oxnard UMC)
Grand Saline, Texas, a town east of Dallas, has a history of racism, a history the community doesn’t talk about. This shroud of secrecy ended when Charles Moore, an elderly white preacher, self-immolated to protest the town’s racism in 2014, shining a spotlight on the town’s dark past. “Man on Fire” untangles the pieces of this protest and questions the racism in Grand Saline today.
“Joel’s disquieting film explores the length one White preacher was willing to go to remind us of our racist history. Like the Buddhist monks whose suicide by fire raised awareness for their cause, some see his act of self-immolation as a radical protest, others believe it’s a sign of mental illness, some feel it’s the ultimate sacrifice. At a time when we’re grappling to define a collective history, this story illustrates how difficult it is to find common language, let alone common ground.”
— LOIS VOSSEN, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, PBS INDEPENDENT LENS