Program: #5211
First air date December 21, 2008
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)

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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Eunice Mangwane is an AIDS counselor from Hamburg, South Africa. She is part of a community of courageous, hope-filled women whose response to the AIDS epidemic in their community is to express their hope through art. The Keiskamma Altarpiece they created toured the USA from 2006-2008 and spent several months at St. James Cathedral in Chicago.

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Sermon Segment

 
Romans 15:13, Ephesians 1:18
The Rev. John Jenkins, President of Notre Dame University, says hope demands that we see the world as it is, seek to find solutions to the problems it faces, and have the courage and commitment to take common action.

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Interview Segment

 
Hosts Daniel Pawlus and Lydia Talbot in conversation with Fr. John Jenkins, who says "genuine faith sees the world as it is and there's no veneer or mask of all of suffering in the world. It's precisely because you can hope in God's power that you can look at the suffering without blinking it away, an unflinching gaze."

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Reflection Segment

 
The Rev. Christine Chakoian, Senior Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, Illinois, says joy is a matter of paying attention: looking for God's presence that shines everywhere.

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