Program: #5314
Second air date July 4, 2010
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)

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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Saul Ebema was one of the "Lost Boys of Sudan," one of tens of thousands of boys displaced or orphaned in the 1980s and 90s during the Second Sudanese Civil War. He eventually made his way to Chicago, where he is a student at Northern Seminary.

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Sermon Segment

 
Serene Jones, President of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, talks about the changing Christian landscape in North America and the role of theological schools in the church's future.

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Interview Segment

 
Lydia Talbot and Daniel Pawlus in conversation with Serene Jones, who says, "I find that I learn more from my thirteen year old daughter than I do from those historic books I work on by John Calvin and Martin Luther, not in terms of the content of faith but of the form that it's taking. I come home from work and find her in front of the computer listening to iTunes as she texts and Twitters and does her Facebook. The question is: what does the generation growing up now think of and imagine as God?"

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Reflection Segment

 
Rabbi Michael Siegel, Senior Rabbi of Anshe Emet Synagogue in Chicago, wonders how many tragedies might have been averted if only people were not too late in acting.

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