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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In the wake of the Newtown, Conn tragedy, I am re-posting this link. Gun Violence: The Faith Response is a half-hour documentary I produced this fall for Sanctuary, an in-depth documentary program produced by the Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries on issues and ideas at the intersection of life and faith broadcast on ABC, WLS-TV, and Channel 7.

Between January and September 2012, Chicago Police reported 2,632 weapons violations committed on the cities streets, parks, schools, homes and public buildings. In the same period, 384 were killed and 1895 were wounded.

The Emergency Stop the Violence Summit at historic First Baptist Congregational Church on the cities near west side drew religious leaders from Christian, Jewish and Islamic communities, as well as police, government and civic leaders. The event also featured three victims of gun violence. These are their stories of faith, grief and hope.

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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, titled: Ethics Summit on the G-8 and NATO, is a panel discussion with:

– Philip Blackwell, Senior Pastor of First United Methodist Church at the Chicago Temple.
– William George, Professor of Theology and Director of the core curriculum at Dominican University, River Forest, Illinois.
– Robin W. Lovin, Professor of Ethics at Southern Methodist University.
– Bruce Rittenhouse, Professor of Ethics at Aurora University and McCormick Theological Seminary.
– William Schweiker, Professor of Theological Ethics at the University of Chicago and also the Director of the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion.
– Cristina Traina, Professor of Religious Studies at Northwestern University in
Evanston, Illinois.

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