Category: Education
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2008 Obama Grant Park Rally From the Cheap Seats
Four years ago… With no ticket to the Obama Grant Park election rally, I made my way south along Michigan Avenue. At Congress Parkway, police barriers funneled non-ticket holders into the north end of Grant Park near the old Petrillo Music Shell. www.frakesproductions.com
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James Nieman installed as LSTC’s Seventh President
On the evening of October 28, 2012 the community of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago installed the Reverend James Nieman, PhD as its seventh President. The Installation service was held at 4 p.m. in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on the campus of the University of Chicago. Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson served as the…
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Sacred Space: Balwant S. Hansra on Sikhism and the Gurdwara
I produced this story for the Council for a Parliament of World Religions at the Sikh Gurdwara in Palatine. Shortly after we recorded this story (which was great fun and I was treated royally), a gunman killed six people at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in Oak Creek, near Milwaukee.
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Holy Baptism: An Introduction
Pastor Ron Glusenkamp at Bethany Lutheran Church in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado asked me to create this short introduction to the sacrament of Holy Baptism. Bethany is a large congregation and baptizes many children and a few adults each year. This resource introduces families to the theology behind a Lutheran understanding of baptism, their role…
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Sancutary: Ethics Summit Full Program
The Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries is the leader in ecumenical Emmy Award winning television on Chicago’s commercial stations. Sanctuary is a half-hour documentary format with Tim Frakes Produtions on ABC-Channel 7, WLS-TV. Host Lydia Talbot and contributing editors interview leading interfaith voices on critical issues inreligion and culture.
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Meeting Photojournalist John H. White
While on a shoot in Chicago’s Federal Plaza for the Council for a Parliament of World Religions, producer Kathy Dale McNair introduced me to Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist John H. White. Mr. White is a legend in Chicago journalism circles a true gentleman an a wonderful artist. I mentioned that I had first seen John…
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Christian History Magazine and People of Faith
Christian History Magazine, a publication of Christian History Institute, has devoted a full issue to People of Faith: Christianity in America, a documentary series currently being distributed by Vision Video/Gateway Films. You may read the full on-line edition at Christianmistorymagazine.org The magazine makes an excellent companion study guide for adult and young adult groups who…
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People’s Resource Center YouTube Channel
The People’s Resource Center, an organization that brings neighbors together to respond to hunger and poverty in DuPage County, Illinois, is making the most of the video segments I helped them produced this spring by creating a YouTube Channel. The channel offers PRC a place where clients, supporters and the wider community can easily access…
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Sacred Space: Van Gilmer on the Baha’i Faith and the House of Worship
Here is a video I produced with Kathy McNair for the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions The Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions was created to cultivate harmony among the world’s religious and spiritual communities and foster their engagement with the world and its guiding institutions in order to achieve…