Tag: Faith
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Amir Koushkani – Spiritual Journey
This is a Spiritual Journey segment I produced for 30 Good Minutes, WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago. Amir Koushkani is an Iranian musician a Sufi and a master of the Persian instrument called “tar,” a stringed instrument whose soothing quality is particularly appropriate for music that stirs the spirit.
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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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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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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…
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Augsburg Fortress Leading Worship Matters: Baking Communion Bread
This is a story for the Augsburg Fortress Leading Worship Matters series. I recorded this story at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The good folks at Our Saviour’s get together on a regular basis to bake communion bread. You can watch the entire Leading Worship Matters series at http://store.augsburgfortress.org/store/productfamily/266/Worship-Matters My niece, Cindy Siech…
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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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Leaders for the Next: Otis Moss III
Chicago Theological Seminary graduates do amazing, meaningful work. Whether as church ministers, teachers, community organizers or advocates of justice, our students become Leaders for the Next. Here is a story I produced for CTS with Mike Jordan and 31 Lengths.
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Fracking Southern Illinois: Faithful Opposition
Fracking Southern Illinois: Faithful Opposition Sunday, June 30, 1:00 p.m. ABC7 Chicago Oil, natural gas and water. Every member of society depends on these resources for transportation, heating, cooking and thousands of daily tasks. But is our expanding demand for energy resources faithful? Recent advances in an oil and natural gas extraction process that uses…