Category: Peace and Justice
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After Prison – Panel Discussion and Dialogue
After Prison: Responding with Faith is a new documentary I produced for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club for WTTW Channel 11. The documentary premieres on WTTW HD on Thursday, April 3rd at 9pm. It will be rebroadcast on WTTW Prime on Friday, April 4th at 3pm, and Sunday, April 6th at 6pm. The program features…
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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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Rogation of the Ninevites
The Rogation of the Ninevites is three days of fasting in Eastern Christian Church traditions. The fast commemorates the Biblical story of Jonah. This footage was recorded at the Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church, 7201 N Ashland Blvd, Chicago. The footage is part of a documentary for Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries about Christians of the East…
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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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Building Bridges of Faith with Pakistan
Building Bridges of Faith with Pakistan is a 30-minute television documentary produced by for Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries with Intersections International. The program will air on ABC7 Chicago, December 29, 2013. Come with me to Pakistan and watch this compelling eyewitness documentary on the testimonies of key Pakistani and American religious leaders, who met in…
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Sabir Hussain: I’m Not Alone
This is an excerpt from a new documentary from Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries which will air on Sunday, December 29 at 11:00 a.m. on ABC7 Chicago. Professor Sabir Hussain from Edwards College Peshawar, Pakistan, engaged in inter-faith dialogue and peace-making long before a group of American scholars and theologians visited Pakistan in April 2013. The…
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2013 CHICAGO EMMY AWARD NOMINATION
TIM FRAKES PRODUCTIONS AND GREATER CHICAGO BROADCAST MINISTRIES NOMINATED FOR 2013 CHICAGO EMMY AWARD September 27, 2013 Sanctuary, a documentary series broadcast on ABC7 Chicago has been nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Public and Current Affairs Programming by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Chicago/Midwest Chapter The Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the National Academy…
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Sanctuary, The Cross is Still Burning
Follow the journey of a charred KKK cross burned 50 years ago when civil rights activists tried to desegregate churches in Jackson, Mississippi. Today, it stands as a sculpture in First United Methodist Church, Chicago Temple, inspiring people of faith who continue to march in solidarity for racial justice. Featuring: • Rev. Phil Blackwell, First…