By Isaac Mites
In our Sunday-Special segment, Bigeye.ug brings you the latest of Gospel movies and documentaries that you should check out just for your spiritual enrichment as well as getting in touch with your creator. And maybe it can be another way of relaxing on your Sunday.
This first Sunday of the New Year, we shall review “God Loves Uganda”.
The movie “God Loves Uganda” is a documentary directed by Roger Ross Williams, more popularly known for his production ‘Undercover Boss’ that was produced in the year 2010.
Roger Ross Williams, an Academy Award-winning documentary director and producer, is a product of an African-American home heavily populated by pastors. His latest movie, God Loves Uganda, reflects his deep ambivalence, grief, fear, and anger regarding the intertwined matters of faith, sexuality, identity, power, love, and respect. It is a documentary along the lines of ‘Jesus Camp,’ which was produced and directed in May last year by John G. Stackhouse, Jr.
The documentary was released late last year in October by Full Credit Productions and it runs for 83 minutes (1hr 23min). In this documentary one will see how Americans gay groups and other gay activists are fighting homophobic people in Uganda and Africa at large.
Williams takes note of two Ugandan men of unacceptable character; Kapya Kaoma, now resident in Boston and Christopher Ssenyonjo, an Anglican bishop who had to be forced out of church for his championing of a strong pro-LGBT agenda. He again points out the notable Ugandan clergy man Martin Sempa, an American-trained Ugandan spearheading the church-based campaign against homosexuals and then Scott Lively, from the United States, and Lou Engle, one of the founders of the International House of Prayer (IHOP) and known to many as the director of “The Call” prayer rallies.
Use this Sunday to know more about Africa’s core cultural values and the role one has to play in upholding these values.
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