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.

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Cook, Write, Pray


Despite challenges, Tom Christensen has learned to trust God in every circumstance. Here is the testimony of a single parent, letter-carrier turned chef, author and cancer survivor. Tom is a member of Lombard Bible Church, a part of the Christian and Missionary Alliance.

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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.

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“I begged him not to die.”

This is a story about grief I recorded in June 2010 for Hope for Life, a ministry of Herald of Truth in Abilene, Texas.

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Moody Radio Testimonial: Carolyn Keith


Here is a story I recorded and produced for Moody Radio. Carolyn Keith’s life forever changed with the accidental death of her son. Through this tragedy Carolyn has learned what faith and hope are really all about.

Moody Radio owns and operates 35 radio stations with a Christian perspective on the news, interactive talk, teaching and inspirational music.

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Eskimo Testimonies


Every now and then, I think back on a visit Jim Quattrocki, Bob Elliott and I made to Alaska’s Seward Peninsula in September, 1994. Eskimo Testimonies is a 7-minute video we produced for Mosaic, the video magazine of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

We spent 12 days touring Eskimo villages like Brevig Mission, Wales and Shishmaref, meeting its people and recording their stories.

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Marie Conlin

Marie Conlin is a member of the Lombard Bible Church, Lombard, Illinois.

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30 Good Minutes Spiritual Jouney, Rick Steves

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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.

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3 Faiths, 2 Countries, 1 Peace

New years day, 2009 will find me back in the Holy Land. I will be documenting the spiritual journey of seven American Christians as they visit various sites in and around Jerusalem, Bethlehem and Ramallah.

You can visit our team web site: 3 Faiths, 2, Countries, 1 Peace for more information, blog posts, photos and video clips as we travel.  Kathleen Adam, leader of the group asked me to come along. Kathleen is a student at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota. This pilgrimage is part of her seminary program.  The recorded footage will also be used to cut together a Spiritual Journey segment for 30 Good Minutes, on WTTW Channel 11 (PBS) in Chicago.

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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.

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