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Keep the Light On

Did you know that the lights stayed on as the Titanic sunk? I thought the lights were just for cinematic effect, to improve visibility for Rose and Jack's infamous final scene. But it is actually historically accurate… 

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All Too Well

On my Spotify Wrapped last year, I listened to 23,214 minutes of music, almost 400 hours. Now, a lot of that listening was Taylor Swift, but nonetheless, music is a huge part of my life and presumably many other people's…

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The Chicken

We are visual people. It doesn't take more than 5 seconds to recognize that. Younger generations will spend…

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Be Still and Know that you are God

One of the major critiques of Jane Eyre and Charlotte Bronte, especially in the 1840s when it was published, is that the book and the author herself are anti-Christian….

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The Storm

If you had to ask me what my all-time favorite piece of art would be, I would struggle to pick just one, but I would settle on John August Swanson’s “The Storm!”  When I was a…

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The World is Wide Enough

If you are a geek like me, whether for history, church, or musicals, you would be surprised to know how all three intersect in arguably the most popular musicals of our day.

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My First Lent

My pastoral care professor in seminary would, from memory, recite Howard Thurman’s “Inward Sea”, so…

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