Category: Interesting People
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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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Advocating for the Deaf: Rehema’s Testimony
Advocating for the Deaf: Rehema’s Testimony CBM US, asked me to record this story at a disabilities forum at Gallaudet University in Washington D.C. The event took place in advance of the 2012 International AIDS Conference. Rehema works with Comprehensive Community Based Rehabilitation in Tanzania (CCBRT), the largest indigenous provider of disability and rehabilitation services…
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Tim Frakes Production airs on ABC 7, Chicago
ABC, WLS-TV, Channel 7 Chicago broadcast a program I produced during the May NATO Summit on Sunday, June 18, 2012. Sanctuary, a production of the Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries is an in-depth documentary program on issues and ideas at the intersection of life and faith that airs every Sunday morning at 11:30 a.m. This edition,…
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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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Eboo Patel on Millennials and the 2012 Election
. This is an excerpt from an interview I recorded in May, 2012 for Odyssey Networks with Eboo Patel, Founder and President of Interfaith Youth Core.
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Cornerstone 89 Family Reunion
In the summer of 1989 I produced this half hour documentary while working for WCFC-TV38 Chicago. Cornerstone is a Christian Rock music festival connected with Jesus People USA. We recorded this at the Lake County Fair Grounds in Grays Lake, Illinois. Interviews include event coordinator Henry Huang, rockers Charlie Peacock, Margaret Becker, Glen Kaiser (REZ…
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Evangelized by the Poor: Photographer Paul Jeffrey
United Methodist Communications produced this video about my friend and colleague Paul Jeffrey http://kairosphotos.com Over the years, I’ve encountered a handful of individuals who inspire and convict me by demonstrating what it means to be a person of faith in complex world. Paul Jeffrey is one of those people. “Despair, I’m convinced, is often a…
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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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What is Help? A Testimony by Valerie Mossman-Celestin
Valerie Mossman-Celestin is the Executive Director of Haitian Artisans for Peace International, in Musac, Haiti. HAPI is a capacity building project funded in part by the United Methodist Committee On Relief. Valerie shared her testimony with me while on a visit to Musac in 2011. It is a spiritual journey that began with the question,…
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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…