Program: #4809
Topic: Kindness
First Broadcast of Sunday, November 28, 2004
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)
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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Nurse Lisa Long, inspired by the love of her father, reaches out to others in kindness.

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Sermon Segment

 
The Rev. Dr. John Claypool, Professor of Preaching at Mercer University’s School of Theology in Atlanta, Georgia, preaches on “The Creative Power of Kindness,” based on John 8:2-11. Jesus’ response to the woman caught in the act of adultery, he says, is a classic example of the transforming effect of an act of merciful kindness. Jesus’ kind words gave her a new hope for living life differently in the future.

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Music Segment


Pianist Gerald Anderson performs his arrangement of “O Love That Will Not Let Me Go” by Albert L. Peace (1884). Recorded at St. James Episcopal Cathedral in Chicago.

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Interview Segment

 
Host Floyd Brown in conversation with John Claypool on the topic of kindness.

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Reflection Segment

 
Writer and rabbi, Karyn Kedar, tells the parable of a poor man who becomes rich through a rabbi’s blessing and then ignores other poor people’s pleas for help. The moral of the story: We are here to love and extend to one another goodness and kindness.

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