{"id":91,"date":"2020-01-13T00:31:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T00:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2020-01-13T00:59:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T00:59:01","slug":"in-my-fathers-church","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/?page_id=91","title":{"rendered":"In My Father&#8217;s Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 525px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-91-1\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/In-My-Fathers-Church-trailer.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/In-My-Fathers-Church-trailer.mp4\">https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/In-My-Fathers-Church-trailer.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Highly Recommended &nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Educational Media Reviews Online<\/strong><br>\u201cFilmmaker Charissa King\u2019s journey to wed in a church that forbids same-sex unions is the focus of this documentary. Filmed over a period of several years, a prominent figure in King\u2019s film is her father, Jack K. King, a soft-spoken, warm, and supportive person who is also the pastor of Southampton\u2019s United Methodist Church (UMC), a church known for its rules against homosexual marriages. When the filmmaker intimates that she would like to marry her partner Kelly in Jack\u2019s church, his reaction is not the response she hopes for. Jack remains silent. He is torn between his love for his only daughter, backlash from church officials, and negative reactions from his conservative congregation. The 1999 church trial and suspension of James Creech, a former United Methodist pastor who performs a same-sex union, becomes the point-of-reference to justify why same-sex partners shouldn\u2019t marry in the Methodist church. King\u2019s video diary reveals mixed and honest attitudes about same-sex unions, and explores other issues such as politics and religion, and father\/daughter relationships.<br> This program is ideal for college and university libraries to support gay &amp; lesbian, gender, psychology, religious, and sociology studies programs.\u201c<br> \u2013 Excerpt taken from Reviewed by Monique Threatt, Indiana University, Herman B Wells Library, Bloomington, IN, Educational Media Reviews Online Ordering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To order a copy of the film contact <a href=\"http:\/\/wmm.com\/catalog\/film\/in-my-fathers-church\/\">Women Make Movies<\/a>. <br><em>Ask Women Make Movies about the rate for home video use.<\/em><br> <strong>Duration:&nbsp;<\/strong>49 minutes<br> Completed: 2004<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Credits<\/strong><br> <strong>Producer\/Videographer\/Editor<\/strong><br> Charissa King-O\u2019Brien<br> <br> \u201cMust-see shows most painfully how one denomination\u2019s anti-gay rules divide families, create a second class citizenry of gay and lesbian church members, and binds clergy to rules that exclude some from receiving the pastoral ministry of the church.\u201d <br>-Karen Oliveto, Ph.D.<br> Asst. Dean and Director of Contextual Ed., Pacific School of Religion<br> <br>\u201cA humorous and emotional journey of a daughter\u2019s love, a father\u2019s church, and a family\u2019s celebration of a loving committed relationship between two women. A must see for anyone struggling with the difference between religious and civil marriage rights in America today.\u201d<br> -Valerie Fein-Zachary, MD<br> The Freedom to Marry Coalition of MA<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> \u201cDeeply moving. A timely ongoing dialog that is deeply personal, radical and brave.\u201d<br> -Elizabeth York, Ph.D.<br> Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Utah State University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Festivals<\/strong><br> \u2022 Austin International Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival<br> \u2022 The F-Word (Feminist) Film Festival at UNC-Asheville, North Carolina<br> \u2022 Fresno International Gay &amp; Lesbian Film Festival<br> \u2022 Immaginaria International Women\u2019s Film Festival<br> \u2022 Michigan Womyns\u2019 Music Festival<br> \u2022 Modesto Lesbian &amp; Gay Film Festival<br> \u2022 Reel Attractions Arkansas LGBTQA Film Festival<br> \u2022 Reel Queer Film Festival at Syracuse University<br> \u2022 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, World Premiere<br> \u2022 Spokane Gay and Lesbian Film Festival<br> \u2022 Virginia Film Festival<br> Universities &amp; other exhibitions<br> \u2022 Boston Social Forum<br> \u2022 Chicago Filmmakers<br> \u2022 COLAGE-NYC at the Brooklyn Historical Society<br> \u2022 Filmmakers Collaborative Open Studios, Waltham, MA<br> \u2022 First Church Omaha, Nebraska<br> \u2022 Hofstra University<br> \u2022 ROUGH CUTS at Boston Film Video Foundation<br> \u2022 UMASS Boston<br> \u2022 Women\u2019s Film Festival at Barton College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly Recommended &nbsp;&nbsp;\u2013 Educational Media Reviews Online\u201cFilmmaker Charissa King\u2019s journey to wed in a church that forbids same-sex unions is the focus of this documentary. Filmed over a period of several years, a prominent figure in King\u2019s film is her father, Jack K. King, a soft-spoken, warm, and supportive person who is also the pastor &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/?page_id=91\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;In My Father&#8217;s Church&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29,"parent":86,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-91","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":131,"href":"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/91\/revisions\/131"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/charissakingobrien.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}