Category: Peace and Justice
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The Bread Shed 2022
The Bread Shed feeds the hungry, both spiritually and physically, in Southeast Missouri. The Bread Shed is a volunteer organization made up of churches and community members, local and regional social service organizations all working together to help to ensure that the needs of children and families are met. The Bread Shed does this through…
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Sheldon Peck, An Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times
Here is a promo for the Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries airing of our new documentary, Sheldon Peck, And Ordinary Man in Extraordinary Times. The half hour broadcast version will air every Sunday at noon in December (beginning this Sunday) on ABC 7.2 Live Well Network Chicago. A longer version will be offered on DVD this…
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Peace Arms and a Test of Faith
With all the talk this week relating to the summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, I decided to dig up Peace, Arms and a Test of Faith, a 1992 documentary I produced for Jean Martensen and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, through the ELCA Department for…
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Franciscan Outreach 2018
Franciscan Outreach 2018 V2 from Tim Frakes on Vimeo. Franciscan Outreach is a leading provider of homeless services in Chicago. This is the second year they have asked me to produce their annual gala video. Every day, Franciscan Outreach provides critical, life-changing services to hundreds of men and women in need. Throughout Chicago, at their…
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A Response to Trump Pakistan Tweet
On January 1, 2018 US President Donald Trump published a Twitter message stating, “The United States has foolishly given Pakistan more than 33 billion dollars in aid over the last 15 years, and they have given us nothing but lies & deceit, thinking of our leaders as fools. They give safe haven to the terrorists…
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Modern Christian Martyrs
Kidnapped, tortured, their priest murdered, a Syrian family is forced to flee, finding asylum here in the United States. In this edition of Sanctuary I produced for Greater Chicago Broadcast Ministries, we meet the Alkhoury family, and take a closer look at growing evidence of widespread persecution of religious minorities, as well as efforts by…
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Franciscan Outreach
Here is a video I produced for Franciscan Outreach, one of the oldest and largest providers for men and women who are homeless in the Chicago area. For more than 53 years, Franciscan Outreach has provided men and women experiencing homelessness with the critical services they need to improve their lives. Franciscan Outreach meets people…
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Intersections International US Pakistani Interreligious Consortium (UPIC) 2017 Stories
Here is a piece I produced in Pakistan in March 2017 for Intersections International. Intersections led a group of more than 30 delegates from 12 countries to Pakistan (Lahore and Islamabad) as part of the ongoing US-Pakistan Interreligious Consortium (UPIC) program. UPIC brings religious and academic scholars from the US and Pakistan together to foster…
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What Will Happen if DACA is Cancelled?
Here is a video I produced for World Relief about DACA, also known as the Dream Act. Liz Dong is a member of Wheaton Chinese Alliance, part of the Christian and Missionary Alliance – the same denomination I am a part of. Following the November election, I was eager to find a way to voice…
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Illinois Senator Dick Durbin, Remember the Dreamers in your Prayers
Friday, December 2, 2016, I recorded Illinois Senator Richard (Dick) Durbin at the Chicago Leadership Prayer Breakfast. The program airs twice. December 18 and December 25 at noon on ABC-7.2 Live Well Channel. In his remarks, Durbin challenged assembled Chicago business and religious leaders to remember “…the 40,000 people who awakened this morning in our…