It’s been a busy and very interesting winter and and spring and I would like to share some of my experiences with you and extend an invitation to watch two of my projects on broadcast television here in Chicago.

This winter I’ve been working with the Chicago Sunday Evening Club to produce a one hour broadcast television documentary titled: After Prison, Responding with Faith. My friends Jim Quattrocki, Darren Harrison and I teamed up to tell three stories of faith communities that are reaching out to ex-offenders. The program will air on Thursday, April 3, 9:00 p.m. on WTTW PBS, Chicago. After Prison, Responding with Faith will be rebroadcast on WTTW Prime on Friday, April 4th at 3pm, and Sunday, April 6th at 6pm.

I’ve also been busy telling stories about Chicago’s Christians from the East with Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries. Western Christians, both Catholic and Protestant, often overlook and even disregard their Eastern brothers and sisters, even when those Christians suffer persecution and war, become refugees, and then live among us.

In this documentary, we introduce Eastern Christians from Iraq, Turkey and Egypt who fled persecution and war in their homelands and made their way to Chicago.

We go inside their homes and places of worship, and hear stories about a rich, ancient Christianity that continues to thrive in a new world. Sanctuary, Chicago’s Christians from the East airs Sunday, March 30th, 11:00 am on ABC7 Chicago.

In early March, Intersections International invited me to return to Pakistan to film stories about the US-Pakistan Interreligious Consortium. UPIC seeks to cooperatively set an action agenda toward policy change and build bridges of faith-based understanding and respect between our two countries.

Ironically, on my way to Islamabad, I flew directly over the head of my son who is currently on deployment in Afghanistan while serving in the United States Army! What are the odds?

Later this year I’ll be working with Peter Mayer, lead guitar player with Jimmy Buffett on a new music project for Lutheran Men in Mission. The Chicago Sunday Evening Club has also asked me to produce a new WTTW documentary on families divided by the Immigration Reform Debate and hopefully many other exciting projects that tell stories of faith and positive change.

Thank you to all those clients who place their trust in me. I look forward to great things to come. And, as always, check out my website, Facebook, Twitter and Linked-in feeds for on-line versions of my projects.

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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 toward policy change and build bridges of faith-based understanding and respect between our two countries.

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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 US-Pakistan Interreligious Consortium (UPIC) spent a week in Pakistan in April, 2013. UPIC is an initiative undertaken by Intersections that seeks to bring together religious leaders from the US and Pakistan to build relationships, shatter stereotypes, and create an action agenda that will help build bridges of mutual respect and understanding between our two countries. For more information, http://www.intersectionsinternational.org/

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This image was taken while recording footage for a documentary about the US-Pakistani Interreligious Consortium. 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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