Program: #5011
Topic: Justice
First air date December 17, 2006
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)
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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Malik Gillani and Jamil khoury created the Silk Road Theatre Project as a way to build bridges of understanding between cultures and religions.

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Sermon Segment

 
United Methodist Bishop, William Willimon, says the Bible's concept of justice is about putting things right in this fallen world. When God's ideas of gracious, generous love clash with our practices of parsimony, we need to recognize that God's ways are not always our ways.

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Quotation


For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways.
 
                                                     — Isaiah 55:9

Interview Segment

 
Hosts Daniel Pawlus and Lydia Talbot in conversation with William Willimon, who says the Bible gives the poor the dignity of being special objects of concern, and the rich, Jesus says, have special responsibilities because of the gifts they've enjoyed.

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Reflection Segment

 
Vicki Garvey, Director of Christian Formation for the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago, tells a modern day parable about God's way of justice.

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