Gates and I had a very healthy debate about the title. JONES: Of course you cannot talk about the church without talking about music and the title of the film is an allusion to one of my favorite hymns, “Blessed Assurance.” There's so many religions, denominations that are even outside of the Christian faith that speak to just what made this country and what continues to inform this country. So it's so much is bottled into this institution and really, it's multilayered too. The first institution that just gave us agency that did not have the influence nor really the power of white influence. It is the first institution that we owned. STACEY HOLMAN: When you look at]so much that has happened in this country, whether it's dealing with the Civil War, whether it's dealing with civil rights movements, whether it's dealing with just basic civil, just rights of amendments for African Americans and just people in general - the church is at the center of all of it. GABRIELLE JONES: Why do you think it was important to document American history through the lens of the Black church?
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