Program: #5116
Topic: Diversity
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)

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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Born in India, Ramaa Krishnan came to the United States in 1998, where she opened a yoga center in Chicago to teach others the lessons she has learned from her Hindu faith about meditation and self-awareness. Our universal impluse, she says, is a need to move from fear to faith.

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Sermon Segment

 
Psalms 133:1
The Rev. Jacqui Lewis is Senior Minister of Middle Collegiate Church in New York City, the oldest Protestant congregation in America, founded in 1628. She says when the church can celebrate its diversity of cultures, races, classes, genders, it is a rehearsal for the reign of God and a model to the world of what it means to be a Beloved Community.

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Interview Segment

 
Hosts Daniel Pawlus and Lydia Talbot in conversation with Jacqui Lewis who says the core theological piece of Scripture is that we are all created in the image of God, and so to know more about God we need to know more about each other.

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Reflection Segment

 
The Rev. Grace Imathiu says God's world is a creation of different shapes, different sizes, and a whole lot of variety in tribes, color, culture and religion to be celebrated.

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