Program: #5105
Topic: Struggle/Hope
Second air date May 11, 2008
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)
This program is funded in part by a grant from Faith & Values Media.   

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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Writer, lecturer and internationally known peace activist, Sr. Joan Chittister, recalls her struggle with polio at the age of 16.

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Sermon Segment

 
The Spirituality of Struggle - Part 1

PART 1 of a 3-part series based on the award-winning book, "Scarred by Struggle, Transformed by Hope." Internationally known writer, lecturer and peace activist, Sr. Joan Chittister, tells about her deep struggle as a young nun to reconcile her dream of studying at America's premier creative writing program to become a fiction writer – a dream that seemed within her grasp – only to be told she was to be third cook at a children's summer camp instead.

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Interview Segment

 
Hosts Lillian Daniel and Daniel Pawlus in conversation with Sr. Joan Chittister who says "We're slivers of God. Once you become aware of that, once you know that the function is the awareness of God, the growing into the presence of God, the awesome responsibility of consciousness of God, then you can stop the false guilt. Then you can sink into life as it is for you because God is the companion in that life."

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