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Facilitated by Intersections International, and in collaboration with the International Islamic University in Islamabad (IIU) and the Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), the visit was part of the US-Pakistan Interreligious Consortium (UPIC), an effort to cooperatively set an action agenda toward policy change on both sides and building bridges of understanding and respect between Pakistan and the United States.

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Weaving a Global Neighborhood with Rick Steves was used in ELCA congregations to help Lutherans understand the idea of global accompaniment. In the script, Rick and Kevin write,

“Less can be more. Here, in a culture (like Papua New Guinea) where material satisfaction is less elusive, there’s more time for God’s work and for just being human. This road may be bumpy, but then there’s more to life than increasing its speed.

After eating with new friends in PNG, I’m reminded that those of us who use spoons and forks don’t have all the answers. Here in PNG, people paint their faces differently then we do. And they know it. The world is not a pyramid with the USA on top and everyone else trying to get there. Papua New Guineans may go to the United States to study or visit congregations but they wouldn’t swap passports with us. Our world is diverse and it will stay that way. It’s a family — but a multicolored and multifaceted family.

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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 Islamabad and Lahore to explore faith-based dialogue, policy change on both sides, and building bridges of understanding and respect between our two countries.

For those outside the Chicago market or for those who miss the broadcast, you may view the full program at www.gcbm.org or www.frakesproductions.com following the broadcast.

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Featuring:
• Rev. Phil Blackwell, First United Methodist Church, Chicago Temple
• Tom Armstrong, Freedom Rider
• Ann Keating, Historian North Central College
• Rev. Martin Deppe, Civil Rights Activist
• Rev. Otis Moss III, Trinity United Church of Christ
• Brenda Russell, Chicago Attorney
• Rev. Julian DeShazier, University Church Chicago

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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 Rodriguez, helped with the production.

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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
millions of gallons of ground water, known as hydraulic fracking, have
turned Southern Illinois and it’s vast resources into a battle ground
in the fight between corporate interests who want to extract domestic
oil and natural gas reserves and those who question the long-term
consequences of hydraulic fracking on the watershed and ultimately the
health of everyone who depends on clean water.

In this addition of Sanctuary we look at faith-based organizations and
individuals who are opposed to fracking Illinois’s oil and natural gas
resources.

This is a production of Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries and Tim Frakes Productions.

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