Program: #5015
Topic: Diversity
First air date January 21, 2007
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)
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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Sol Firestone waited until he was 93 years old to celebrate his Bar Mitzvah, living proof that in God's time there are no age limits.

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Sermon Segment

 
Dr. Stanley Hauerwas, Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina, challenges our ideas about pluralism and religious tolerance. "One of the things we have to do" he says, "is not ask, how are we going to understand other faiths, but how are other faiths going to understand us?"

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Quotation

 
You, O Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
 
                                                     — Psalm 3:3

Interview Segment

 
Hosts Daniel Pawlus and Lydia Talbot in conversation with Stanley Hauweras. He says, "I certainly think that Christians have an obligation to embody the virtue of humility, which means that our first task is not to tell others how we can get along. Our first task is to listen."

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Reflection Segment

 
Vicki Garvey, Director of Christian Formation for the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, recalls a Christmas pageant with four Marys – and the richness of God's story told by many voices.

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