Program: #5021
Topic: Diversity
First air date March 11, 2007
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)
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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Four women from different religions live and work together in Chicago for a year, exploring what it means to live in peace.

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Sermon Segment

 
Dr. Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core in Chicago, says the major challenge of the 21st Century is a "faith line" separating totalitarians from pluralists, much as there was a color line in the last century. The common good is best served when every faith community has a chance to make its own unique contribution.

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Quotation

 
God is love. Those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.
 
                                                     — I John 4:16

Interview Segment

 
Hosts Daniel Pawlus and Lydia Talbot continue in conversation with Eboo Patel who says, "I really believe that if we're going to have religious pluralism in America or in India or in Iraq, young people are going to play a major leadership role.

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Reflection Segment

 
Christine Chakoian, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, Illinois, recalls how her seminary classmates from other faith traditions helped her build a stronger, personal Christian faith.

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