Tim Frakes Productions

Candace Minster – Spiritual Journey


This story reminds me of summer. Candace Minster is an Environmental Education Coordinator at the White Violet Eco-Justice Center, a ministry of the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-in-the-Woods, Indiana. I recorded this story for 30 Good Minutes, WTTW, Channel 11, PBS, Chicago on a blazing-hot summer day.

Tags: , , , , , ,

Carrie Newcomer – 30 Good Minutes, Spiritual Journey

This is a spiritual journey I produced for 30 Good Minutes, WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago. Singer and songwriter, Carrie Newcomer, drawn to the social justice and peace focus of the Quakers, writes songs about the sacred in the ordinary things of life.

Tags: , , , ,

Sayira Khokhar Spiritual Journey, 30 Good Minutes


Sayira Khokhar – 30 Good Minutes – Spiritual Journey
This is a spiritual journey segment I produced for 30 Good Minutes, WTTW Channel 11, PBS, Chicago. Sayira is a young woman who grew up in Chicago and tasted the backlash of anti Muslim sentiment in the years following 9/11.

Tags: , , ,

Parker Palmer Spiritual Journey, 30 Good Minutes


This is a spiritual journey segment I recorded and produced for 30 Good Minutes. Renowned educator and Quaker writer, Parker Palmer, says one of the biggest things he has learned in life is that the direction of the spiritual journey is not upward but downward, to what Paul Tillich called the ground of being.

Tags: , , ,

30 Good Minutes Spiritual Jouney, Rick Steves

spiritual-journey-screen-ricksteves

Click on the above picture to view a story I produced about my friend, travel writer and PBS Travel host Rick Steves.

The story was produced for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club‘s 30 Good Minutes program. 30 Good Minutes is an award-winning weekly broadcast on WTTW Channel 11 (PBS Chicago) and in syndication in other U.S. cities.

It features many of America’s great religious thinkers, selected from a broad range of denominations and faith traditions. The program explores topics of faith through short meditations (sermons), documentaries, interviews and commentaries.

www.frakesproductions.com

Tags: , , , ,

Anne Bayse, 30 Good Minutes

Click on the above picture to view a story I produced about my friend, author and simple living advocate, Anne Basye. The story was produced for the Chicago Sunday Evening Club‘s 30 Good Minutes program. 30 Good Minutes is an award-winning weekly broadcast on WTTW Channel 11 (PBS Chicago) and in syndication in other U.S. cities. It features many of America’s great religious thinkers, selected from a broad range of denominations and faith traditions. The program explores topics of faith through short meditations (sermons), documentaries, interviews and commentaries.

Tags: , , , , , ,