Today I became a member of an 'outreach advisory board' for the new doc called The Calling by Daniel Alpert. Alpert's brilliant idea is to track a few students over three years or so as they become religious leaders. So far, he's followed a young Pakistani Imam-to-be at Hartford Seminary, a Latino Theologian (I wrote Novice earlier - out of ignorance - my apologies Steven) at a Catholic seminary in San Antonio and a guitar playing rabbinical student at JTS. He'll add more as the project goes forward. While the seminary students will not meet or interact with one another - I do like the fact that Alpert is tracking them at the same time, and envisioning weaving the stories together - if it works.
