Cecil's Open Road
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Cecil Williams Highlight (1:43)
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Interview (5:00)
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Lose Something (0:28)
Interview Excerpt -
It Was Not Easy (0:27)
Interview Excerpt -
Empower The Poor (0:34)
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Risk All That You Have (0:23)
Interview Excerpt
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INTERVIEWED BY:
Destination Unknown
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INTERVIEW LOCATION:
San Francisco, CA
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AIRED ON:
Public Television: Season One
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ON DVD:
CECIL WILLIAMS
Minister
Glide Memorial Church
INTERESTS:
THEMES DISCUSSED:
Chance Courage Culture Desire Fulfillment Individualism Risk Struggle Values Community
TAGS:
Berkeley, church, empower, empowerment, helping others, life after death, living, living dangerously, lose something, loss, love, Methodist church, poor, poverty, religion, school, segregation, Southern Methodist University, theology
BIOGRAPHY:
Cecil Williams, minister of the Glide Memorial Church in San Francisco, Calif., focuses his theology on helping others. Cecil knew first-hand what it was like to be a minority when he attended college as one of the first African-Americans admitted to Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. After obtaining his degree in theology, Cecil was assigned to work at a church in Hobbs, N.M. After practicing in New Mexico for a year, Cecil realized that the Methodist Church had sent him there to create a segregated church. From there, Cecil went to the University of California, Berkeley for two years and was then assigned a church in Kansas City. He noticed that, especially in his area and there was a mixture of poor black and white people. From there, Cecil has made it his life's passion to preach his religion to all types of people, especially those in need.
