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The Father Divine Project
A "database documentary" about Father Divine and the Peace Mission Movement. This little-known story of an American 20th century communitarian religion, encompasses race, faith, gender, electronic media, religious freedom, the elderly, reincarnation, food and political activism. © Copyright (c) 2007, wluers
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Play Podcast    The Bible Institute (Part 2)
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:18:28 -0500

Play Podcast    The Bible Institute (Part 1)
Two episodes documenting the 50th anniversary banquets held at The Bible Institute in north Philadelphia on April 29th and 30th, 1996. These are a little longer than previous posts - 6-7 minutes each....
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:09:29 -0500

Play Podcast    Divine Tracy Hotel Banquet (Part 2)
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:35:47 -0500

Play Podcast    Divine Tracy Hotel Banquet (Part 1)
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Thu, 14 Jun 2007 15:49:12 -0500

Play Podcast    Heaven on Earth
"There's no point in seeking to go somewhere else that you don't know about. Enjoy this good earth God gave us." - Miss Kingdom...
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Thu, 03 May 2007 03:12:24 -0500

Play Podcast    Mother Divine
Here is the first part of a 1997 interview with Mother Divine held in Sayville, Long Island. She talks about her marriage to Father Divine as "a supernatural experience."...
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Mon, 22 Jan 2007 01:16:32 -0600

Play Podcast    Sayville
Sayville, Long Island (about 40 miles East of New York City) is where Father Divine's ministry was transformed nearly overnight. In 1931, Father and Mother Divine (Peninniah) had purchased a house in the small white suburb of Sayville and...
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:24:45 -0500

Play Podcast    Personal Presence/Personal Absence
When Father Divine died at his Woodmont estate on September 10th 1965, Mother Divine became the spiritual leader of the movement. She took on the enormous responsibility of maintaining the properties and businesses that housed and employed thousands of...
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Tue, 07 Feb 2006 21:03:36 -0600

Play Podcast    "There was a child born unto me..."
Reincarnation is not central to Father Divine's doctrine of "Heaven on Earth", but it did become an important aspect of his marriage to "Sweet Angel" (Edna Rose Ritchings) in 1946. He claimed she was the reincanation of his first...
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Thu, 19 Jan 2006 09:42:56 -0600

Play Podcast    Spirit and Rhythm
The Peace Mission banquet service always ends with spontaneous song and dance. During dessert (when four or five diffrent sweet dishes are passed around), followers and guests will stand and give testimonials of faith, praise Father Divine or simply...
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:27:52 -0600

Play Podcast    March of Time Newsreel
This newsreel was provided by Mother Divine from the Father Divine archives. The Peace Mission has cut certain parts that show the "raciness" of a nightclub in Harlem and the references to Father Divine as "black" or "negro." They...
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:01:13 -0600

Play Podcast    Miss Heddy's Conviction
Each follower of the Peace Mission Movement has a story about his or her conviction that Father Divine is the living incarnation of God. Miss Heddy's conviction occured before the Swiss alps in 1940. At the time, she didn't...
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:15:14 -0600

Play Podcast    The Marriage of Father and Mother Divine
In the spring of 1996, Dr. Leonard Primiano (my college Folklore professor) called me with an event he wanted to record on video; did I have any time? The event was the 50th Wedding Anniversary of Father and Mother...
wluers@taylorstreetstudio.com (Will Luers)   Thu, 15 Dec 2005 01:49:59 -0600



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