Category: History
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A Gathering of Souls: The Billy Graham Crusades Promo
Here is a promo for a film I produced with Larry Eskridge, “A Gathering of Souls: The Billy Graham Crusades”. The Rev. Billy Graham passed away on February 21, 2018. In 2012 I worked with Larry Eskridge from Wheaton College to produced a documentary, A Gathering of Souls: The Billy Graham Crusades. It was produced…
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Where Cross The Crowded Ways of Life, The Story of The Chicago Temple
Where Cross The Crowded Ways of Life, The Story of The Chicago Temple The First United Methodist Church, Chicago Temple is the oldest church in Chicago. From the cities earliest, pioneer days, through the Great Chicago fire, the 1893 World’s Fair, Prohibition, World War’s 1 and 2, Civil Rights and today’s issues related to gun…
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Ancient Bosra, Syria, 2009
In October, 2009 I was in the Ancient City of Bosra, Syria with Intersections International. Bosra is a UNESCO World Heritage Site featuring Nabatean, Roman, Byzantine and Ayyubid ruins dating to the 14th century BCE. Bosra was once a stopping place for pilgrims on the way to Mecca. During our visit, we filmed a team…
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Joliet Iron Works
The Joliet Fun little shoot at the Joliet Iron Works Historic Site. Panasonic DMC GH4, MC Peleng f:3.5 Fisheye, Nikkor 105mm f:2.5, Minolta Rokkor MC 50mm f:1.7. M43 adaptors on all three lenses. The Joliet Iron and Steel Works was once the second largest steel mill in the United States operating from 1869 until all…
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Sister Judith and 50,000 Aids Orphans
Thursday, May 24, 2001 This is a story Jim Quattrocki, Kevin Jacobson and I produced in Bukoba, Tanzania with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania. Sister Judith worked with the ELCT’s HIV/Aids program known as OSSA. She was a saint. We followed three orphan children (HIV positive) as they went for water. The fresh water…
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Caesar Giovannini Testimony
Recently I interviewed Chicago born pianist, band arranger and composer Caesar Giovannini for Lutheran Life Communities. Caesar is a resident at the Lutheran Home in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Giovannini gained fame in the 1950’s through appearances on the Dave Garroway Show. He also served for two years as music director for the Kukla, Fran and…
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Juan Antonio Monroy on Fidel Castro
In September, 2014 I interviewed Spanish journalist Juan Antonio Monroy in Abilene, Texas for Herald of Truth Ministries. Monroy shared the story of his encounter with the late Fidel Castro at a gathering in Nicaragua. Monroy is also an evangelist and in 1994 was looking to get a visa to enter Cuba and preach in…
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Commanding a 30 Years War Army
Here is a video from Rick Steves blog post from our shoot in Rothenburg, Germany. It’s park of a new, 1-hour Rick Steves PBS special on Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. After Martin Luther died in 1546, Europe was plunged into 30 years of war, leaving a third of the continent dead. Like it…
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Sanctuary, Selma at 50: Still Marching
50 years ago, civil rights activists marched across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama and into history. In this addition of Sanctuary, we join with the Chicago Sunday Evening Club and Chicago Theological Seminary to present interviews and highlights from “Selma at 50: Still Marching” tracing a thread through the legacy of civil rights…
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The Reformation after the Reformation
Rediscovering the roots of Pietism in Scandinavia, God’s Glory, Neighbors Good Everyone keeps asking me, “What is Pietism?” The answer became clear after traveling in Sweden, Norway and Denmark with Dr. Mark Safstrom, lecturer in Swedish and Scandinavian studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We are working on a new documentary titled:…