Category: History
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Opening the Door to Luther Production Blog Day 8
September 27 -29 Our last three days were spent in Wittenberg. After the first day we finished all the on-camera work and said good bye to Rick and Peter. They took the train north to Berlin and flew back home. They had been shooting for a month straight in London and now Germany. After they…
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Opening the Door to Luther Production Blog Day 6
Monday, September 25 6:30 a.m. This morning, after much discussion we decided to split our crew into two units. Kurt, Joyce, and I drove three hours south to the Coburg Castle. Rick and Peter went back to Erfurt to continue production there. The Augsburg confession is a cornerstone document of the Lutheran faith. While it…
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Opening the Door to Luther Production Blog Day 2
Thursday, September 21 Sporting a new tire, our Boeing 747 touched down in Frankfort at dawn. Light rain was falling and the skies were grey. After collecting my luggage and renting a car, (a blue Ford station wagon) I made my first stab at driving on Germany’s famous Autobahn. In Germany all highways lead to…
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Opening The Door to Luther Production Blog Day 1
Wednesday, September 20 Traveling alone, I set off for a visit to Lutherland. The purpose of the trip is to produce a documentary on the life of Martin Luther in the German reformation cities of Eisenach, Erfurt, Eisleben Coburg and Wittenberg. Martin Luther, of course, was the 16th century Augustinian monk who sparked the Protestant…
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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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A Gift to Children, Davey and Goliath
Back in 1995 I produced Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. In this story, we looked back at Davey and Goliath, the successful children’s television series that began airing in 1961. We interviewed R. Marshall Stross, former executive director of Davey and Goliath, for the Lutheran Church in America. We…
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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.…