You are invited to attend a special preview screening of an important new mini-series, "This Far by Faith: African-American Spiritual Journeys" on Sunday, May 18 from 2-5 p.m. at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 42 Brattle Street in Cambridge, MA. Come and meet the producer, June Cross, who will talk about the series which is scheduled to air on June 24, 25 and 26 (9-11 pm) nationwide on PBS.

This timely series demonstrates that faith, carried outside of the physical boundaries of a church, can fuel personal liberation, political engagement, economic development and artistic expression. Faith changes lives and transforms nations.

This Far by Faith is the first broadcast look at African-American religious life. Rather than telling the story of the black church, it examines how faith sustained individual African-Americans, and, how, ultimately, that faith became a force for social change that helped transform this country.

PBS has scheduled the series in two-hour segments over the three nights on the nation’s 325 PBS stations. The Faith Project, Inc., in association with Blackside, Inc. and the Independent Television Service, produced this important series. An accompanying book, written by NPR and former "Talk of the Nation" host Juan Williams, is already in bookstores.

This Far by Faith: A Lesson in the Power of the Spirit

The series begins with the stories of Denmark Vesey and Sojourner Truth, torn from their parents by slavery, each following different paths of faith to become warriors against injustice; of the first black Union Army chaplain, Henry McNeal Turner, who mobilized former slaves into a church with the soul of a nation.

The series tells us how Thomas A. Dorsey invented gospel music; and describes how foot soldiers in the civil rights movement used that music to inspire courage and resistance. It tells the story of the chosen son of the Nation of Islam, and how he found courage through his faith to embrace orthodox Islam; and, finally, follows a group of pilgrims who spent a year walking halfway around the world, praying to heal the wounds of slavery, only to discover that first they needed to heal the wounds of racism within themselves.

Admission to the screening is free. Please RSVP to kcprmail@aol.com .

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