Canadian producer Frank Faulk has an unusual - but long running - friendship with a fundamentalist preacher in Kentucky. They may disagree on just about everything, but their friendship is solid. This program comes to us from the CBC and airs as part of the international documentary exchange series Crossing Boundaries. It won a Silver Medal at the 2005 New York Festivals.
A Complicated Friendship was produced by Frank Faulk of the CBC. This program airs as part of the international documentary exchange series Crossing Boundaries.
Links:
Interfaith Youth Core
Mobilizing young people to serve the community while participating in dialogue about religious similarities and differences.
The Institute of Interfaith Dialogue
A national organization that works to promote understanding through discussion.
Books:
The Best of Enemies: From Prejudice to Friendship in the Post Civil-Rights South by: Osha Gray Davidson 1996 This book details an even more complicated friendship between a black female activist and a Klu Klux Klan member.
We Just Want to Live Here: An Unlikely Teenage Friendship in the Two Jerusalems by: Amal Rifai, Odelia Ainbinder, Sylke Tempel 2003 This book tells the story of two teenagers, an Israeli and a Palestinian, who met at a summer camp in Switzerland. They returned to a home that was in the grips of a violent Intifada. This book is a collection of the letters they exchanged.
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