Program: #5022
Topic: Justice
First air date March 25, 2007
WTTW Channel 11 Chicago (PBS)
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Spiritual Journey Segment

 
Debra Farrington believes that doing justice includes a responsibility to care for all God's creatures.

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Sermon Segment

 
Writer and preacher, Rev. Fleming Rutledge, one of the first women ordained in the Episcopal Church, talks about God's justice. She says to be outraged on behalf of one's own group is to be human, but to be outraged on behalf of the defenseless and the oppressed is to do the work of God.

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Quotation

 
The Path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.
 
                                                     — Proverbs 4:18

Interview Segment

 
Hosts Daniel Pawlus and Lydia Talbot continue in conversation with Fleming Rutledge. She says that today we tend to hear almost exclusively about the love and mercy of God and very little about God's judgment. An over emphasis on God as a judge is a terrible way for people to hear the Gospel.

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Reflection Segment

 
Christine Chakoian, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Lake Forest, Illinois, tells how a childhood incident with a security officer taught her something about justice.

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