Category: Interesting People
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Phillis Tickle 2009 Spiritual Journey
This is a 2009 Spiritual Journey I produced on late American author and lecturer Phillis Tickle for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club‘s WTTW Channel 11 PBS Chicago program, 30 Good Minutes.
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Julie Hamos, 2009 Spiritual Journey
This is a 2009 Spiritual Journey I produced on former Illinois House of Representatives 18th District member Julie Hamos for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club‘s WTTW Channel 11 PBS Chicago program, 30 Good Minutes. Hamos was born in Budapest, Hungary. At age seven Hamos and her brother and parents escaped at the height of the…
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Duende Dance Theater, Federal Plaza, Chicago
The Duende Dance Theater performing on Federal Plaza, Chicago as part of a Sacred Space gathering organized by the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions. June 10, 2012
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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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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.…