Program: #5219
First air date February 15, 2009
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)

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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Raised in a secular Jewish family, Tom Levinson's interest was piqued by a class on world religions. He enrolled at Harvard Divinity School but longed to discover how faith was experienced in ordinary, everyday lives. Following graduation, he embarked on a year-long road trip in search of religious America, finding his own faith in the process.

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Sermon Segment

 
Dr. Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard University and Director of the Pluralism Project, reflects on the ever expanding American landscape of religious pluralism and how a "Christian" country has become a multireligious one.

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Interview Segment

 
Hosts Lillian Daniel and Daniel Pawlus in conversation with Diana Eck, who says, "If we're looking at where the places of interfaith activity are happening in the U.S., they are happening on our college campuses. Students are likely to have a Muslim roommate, or a Hindu have a Jewish roommate, or something like that. There are so many people who have now hit college age and are really in a very clear multi-religious context."

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Reflection Segment

 
Rabbi Michael Siegel, Senior Rabbi of Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago, says sometimes the most powerful type of faith is the kind that we learn to have in each other.

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