Category: Interesting Places
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UPIC 2014 Critical Thinking Forum
This is one in a series of videos I produced for Intersections International in Islamabad, Pakistan, March 10-15, 2014. Dr. Munazza Yaqoob from the International Islamic University in Islamabad, Pakistan heads the Critical Thinking Forum, a kind of interdisciplinary think-tank for young Pakistani women. The US-Pakistan Interreligious Consortium seeks to cooperatively set an action agenda…
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Jacquline Lewis: The Holiness Bridge
The Rev Jacqui Lewis, Senior Minister of the Middle Collegiate Church tours the Faisal Mosque, the largest worship space in Pakistan and discovers connections with her Muslim hosts through a shared reverence for the divine and through sacred space. Facilitated by Intersections International, and in collaboration with the International Islamic University in Islamabad (IIU) and…
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Pullman Historic District
The Pullman District was the first model, planned industrial community in the United States. Things didn’t work out as planned and Pullman was the scene of the violent 1894 Pullman strike. It was built for George Pullman in an area that was then beyond the City of Chicago, Illinois city limits as a place to…
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Returning to Jerusalem with the Lutheran World Federation
Today I purchased airfare for a return to Jerusalem to work with Mark Brown and Tawfiq Nasser with the Lutheran World Federation Department for World Service – Jerusalem. The Lutheran World Federation’s Jerusalem Program has been running projects related to health, education, and humanitarian aid in the Palestinian Territories for over 60 years. In addition…
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Weaving a Global Neighborhood with Rick Steves
Weaving a Global Neighborhood with Rick Steves is a documentary I produced in 1998 while working for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). PBS travel host and best-selling guidebook author Rick Steves and ELCA colleague Kevin Jacobson and I visited Paupua New Guinea where Kevin served as an educator. Weaving a Global Neighborhood with…
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Remembering the Asaro Mud Men of Paupua New Guinea
In 1998 I had the opportunity to produce a documentary with Rick Steves and Kevin Jacobson in Papua New Guinea. This figurine is a memento from that trip. After two days in the air (Chicago to LAX, LAX to Sidney, Sidney to Brisbane, Brisbane to Port Morsbey, Port Morsbey to Goroka, Paupua New Guinea) I…
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Door of Hope Maasai Ministry
The Door of Hope Ministry is and example of a micro non-profit that is making a difference in the lives of young Maasai women through education. The Maasai are an African ethnic group that live in East Africa typically in and around large game parks. Door of Hope is the story of Tanzanian Lutheran Pastor…
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Solar Reading Lights for Kids
Godparents for Tanzania-G4TZ- is a non-profit that provides scholarships to over 120 students in the Kilimanjaro and Karatu regions of Tanzania. Most students are in secondary school (high school), college and university. G4TZ also supports projects that help educate young people, including a rural primary school and a new technical school. Recently, G4TZ distributed solar…
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Godparents for Tanzania
Godparents for Tanzania provides scholarships to over 120 students in the Kilimanjaro and Karatu regions of Tanzania. Most of the students are in secondary school (high school), college and university. I worked with a wonderful Tanzania/American team visiting schools, interviewing children, staff and organizers across the region. This video is an anthology of short, social-media…
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Images of Pakistan
Here are a few images from my brief visit to Pakistan with Intersections International. The music is a Sufi poet who agreed to sing for me one evening at Lahore University. I’m not sure about the lyrics, however, I suspect it’s a love song. I added the tabla and flute.