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A special PBS mini-series on vocation is coming to TV screens nationwide later this month—and it will be engaging viewers in reflection on their own calling with the help of the Project on Civic Reflection.
The Calling, a four-hour documentary miniseries, premieres in two parts on two consecutive nights on PBS's Independent Lens, nationwide and in prime time on Dec 20 & Dec 21, 2010 from 9-11 pm EST and 8-10 pm CST (check local listings). Produced by The Kindling Group, this riveting documentary follows seven Catholic, Evangelical Christian, Jewish, and Muslim Americans who are training for religious leadership. An interfaith team of filmmakers takes viewers into the seldom-glimpsed world of seminaries, revealing the real people "behind the robes" and telling compelling personal stories of how faith is lived today.
To help viewers reflect on their own calling, the filmmakers have also launched What's Your Calling?—a national engagement campaign aiming to take a new look at that very big question. Through a constantly expanding online stream of videos, articles, and interviews of individuals of diverse backgrounds—from sports legends to jazz musicians, tug boat captains to academics, seminarians to Muay Thai fighters, social workers to toy inventors—What's Your Calling? shares what people have been called to do with their lives and how they hope to change the world. The Project on Civic Reflection has been a partner in the campaign, designing questions for the website and guides for group discussion.
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