Uploaded April 2019 | Updated September 2026, 56 minutes ago
This is a 13 minute clip from the two hour weekly show "Faith of Our Southern Fathers" in South Bend, IN from June 2006. Peter Helland reads from John Wesley and John Fletcher, the two founders of the Methodist church. They both seriously condemned the Americans in their revolt against the British. They argued that the principles they were fighting by were very anti-Christian. During the years from 1996 to 2007 Peter produced a new 2 hour weekly show for public access television. The shows were on theology and history. The audience was exclusively from the South Bend/Elkhart area. South Bend alone contained 48 Methodist churches according to the church listings.
The only way the audience could interact was by sending a letter to Peter's P.O. Box at Notre Dame University. Or someone saw Peter in town and spoke to him. Even then such interaction consisted mainly of acknowledging that they saw the show. People were still not used to interacting with such media. Since the nature of today's dialogue is much different from 2006 it is possible that Peter would be expressing himself accordingly. Unfortunately almost all of Peter's shows from that time have not been preserved. But this little segment was found and gives a faint idea of what he was talking about back then.
This is a 13 minute clip from the two hour weekly show "Faith of Our Southern Fathers" in South Bend, IN from June 2006. Peter Helland reads from John Wesley and John Fletcher, the two founders of the Methodist church. They both seriously condemned the Americans in their revolt against the British. They argued that the principles they were fighting by were very anti-Christian. During the years from 1996 to 2007 Peter produced a new 2 hour weekly show for public access television. The shows were on theology and history. The audience was exclusively from the South Bend/Elkhart area. South Bend alone contained 48 Methodist churches according to the church listings.
The only way the audience could interact was by sending a letter to Peter's P.O. Box at Notre Dame University. Or someone saw Peter in town and spoke to him. Even then such interaction consisted mainly of acknowledging that they saw the show. People were still not used to interacting with such media. Since the nature of today's dialogue is much different from 2006 it is possible that Peter would be expressing himself accordingly. Unfortunately almost all of Peter's shows from that time have not been preserved. But this little segment was found and gives a faint idea of what he was talking about back then.
