Here are short news clips about stories that have to do with religion and culture and that have been nominated for the prestigious Wilbur Awards. (Big Sonia can be streamed on Amazon Prime Video) Most are short, 8 to 10 minutes and are definitely worth showing to students. Below the videos are links to news and magazine stories that also won nominations.
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Links to essays, news stories & documentaries
- Las Angeles Times, Sikh drivers are transforming U.S. trucking. Take a ride along the Punjabi American highway
- Las Angeles Times, How a rural Oklahoma truck stop became a destination for Sikh Punjabis crossing America
- CBS Evening News, video, Sikhs in Semis
- CNN: A gunman killed his brother. Now Farris Barakat is on an American journey.
- CBS News; The Girl in the Picture (Short clip)
- PBS Religiion & Ethics: Rancher Nuns (short clip)
- CBS News: Footbal Nun (short clip)
- Fork Films: The Armopur of Light, available to stream on Amazon Prime video. THE ARMOR OF LIGHT follows an Evangelical minister and the mother of a teenage shooting victim who ask, is it possible to be both pro-gun and pro-life?
- National Geographic: Saints and Strangers (2.5 hour documentary, tells the story of the Mayflower voyage and chronicles the Pilgrims' first year in America and the first Thanksgiving in 1621. The program aired on the National Geographic Channel and premiered on November 22, 2015.
- PBS Religions & Ethics: The Life of Dorothy Day
- Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story