Category: Peace and Justice
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Sanctuary Gun Violence The Faith Response
Terrell Marquis Bosley, 18, killed while helping friends unload drums at church. Demetrius Harris, 23, paralyzed from the waist down by a gunshot wound. Darius Parish, 20, a chemistry student at Saint Xavier University, murdered. ? More youth were killed in Chicago in 2012 than in Afghanistan, but where is the moral outrage against the…
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Metro Care Ring
Short Version Long Version Metro Care Ring is a is a hunger relief organization that offers urgent food assistance and other items for stabilizing individuals and families in need. In addition to operating one of the largest food pantries in Denver, Metro CareRing provides help with utilities and transportation, and identification documentation. Utilizing over 160…
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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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Sharing Sacred Spaces: Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions
This 2012 video, “Sharing Sacred Spaces” was a project for the Council for a Parliament of the World’s Religions recorded at Federal Plaza in Chicago’s Loop.
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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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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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Immigration Protest Chicago
Tuesday, May 15, 2012. I took a morning Metra train downtown to hunt for early NATO protestors. A demonstration was scheduled for Federal Plaza. Apparently organizers couldn’t get their act together and the place was empty. Armed with my camera and Twitter, I learned that an immigration protest was brewing over on W. Van Buren…
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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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People’s Resource Center, Empowerment
People’s Resource Center community exists “to respond to basic human needs, promote dignity and justice, and create a future of hope and opportunity for the residents of DuPage County, Illinois through discovering and sharing personal and community resources.”