Program: #5101
Topic: Prayer
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)

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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Chicago actress Paddy Lynn portrays Emily Dickinson in a one-woman show that reveals how her poetry is very much like prayer.

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Message Segment

 
"Praying Without Losing Heart"
 Luke 18:1-8
 
Dr. Tom Long, Bandy Professor of Preaching at Emory University's Candler School of Theology says every serious person of faith has questions and problems about prayer. How am I supposed to pray? Is God really listening? The parable in Luke's Gospel of the persistent widow and the evil judge has lessons for us on how to "pray always and without losing heart."

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Interview Segment

 
Hosts Daniel Pawlus and Lydia Talbot in conversation with Dr. Tom Long, who says, "A parable is one of those literary devices that, just at the moment you think you've got it, a trap door opens and you fall down to another level, another depth. That's been the way prayer has been for me.".

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Reflection Segment

 
The Rev. Grace Imathiu says prayer is an invitation to God to come and be with us in every situation.

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