Category: Documentary
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The Life of Apostle Peter with Rick Steves
The Life of the Apostle Peter with Rick Steves is my fifth collaboration with the noted author and PBS travel show host. Past programs include: Opening the Door to Luther, Weaving a Global Neighborhood, The Life of Apostle Peter with Rick Steves, Faithful Travel and In the City for Good. Rick graciously offered his time…
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Prayer: Fall 2005 Mosaic
Prayer: Fall 2005 Mosaic is a documentary I produced for Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The program explores prayer in the Old and New Testaments, in Martin Luther’s writings, and in the broader church today. Stories were shot in Rochelle, Illinois and New Orleans, Louisiana.
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Africans, the real Church growth experts
Fall 2001 MOSAIC, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Christianity is both an old and new religion in Africa. According to Acts 9 Christianity has been in Ethiopia from the beginning, while it has been in Tanzania for only a hundred years. Both churches, however, have something in common: rapid growth.…
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Through My Eyes
Jim Quattrocki, Kevin Jacobson, Jim Parks and I created this video in May, 1999. MTV was going strong in those days and reality TV was still in it’s infancy. So we gave they style a try. “Through My Eyes” follows an American college student, Hmong Ly, to the West Bank city of Ramallah and Jerusalem…
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Forgiving the Unforgivable: Restorative Justice
Forgiving the Unforgivable: Restorative Justice This is a 1999 feature story I produced for Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. We recorded the story in Mitchell, South Dakota, Restorative justice was an emerging concept in American criminal justice and the faith-based advocates who supported it. Restorative Justice sheds light on…
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A Century in Madagascar
Kevin Jacobson, his brother John and I went to Madagascar September 12-22, 1998 to record two programs “Walking Together in Global Mission” and “A Century in Madagascar.” American Lutheran missionaries Stan and Kathie Quanbeck were part of a continuous family legacy that served in Madagascar for 100 years. It’s a legacy that helped build an…
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Her Words Took Wing: Caronline Iverson Ackerman
This short documentary about Caroline Iverson Ackerman was produced in 1995 for Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The following biography is from the Harvard University Library Papers of Caroline Iverson Ackerman. Caroline Iverson Ackerman was born in 1918 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to Jacob Engval and Ella Dorothea (Schmidt) Iverson.…
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The IMCK Story
In 1987 Julie Frakes and I produced this documentary about the Institut Médical Chrétien du Kasaï (IMCK) in Tshikaji, near Kananga in rural Zaire. Today, Zaire is known as the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the time I was a young producer working with WCFC TV-38 in Chicago and still had a lot to…