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As we prepare for a new slate of respectful dialogue in 2019 and an earnest desire to be a promoter of efficient, effective and compassionate solution, allow me to share a concern echoed from the year behind, as editorialized by CNN and multiple outgoing senators… [all emphasis mine]… “As departing
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[Borrowed and edited once more from a blog by Justin Taylor, Crossway Sr. VP & publisher, because the story behind the song blows me away and puts life in perspective…] In March of 1863, 18-year-old Charles Appleton Longfellow walked out of his family’s home on Brattle Street
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[Borrowed and edited once more from a blog by Justin Taylor, Crossway Sr. VP & publisher, because the story behind the song blows me away and puts life in perspective…] In March of 1863, 18-year-old Charles Appleton Longfellow walked out of his family’s home on Brattle Street
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From the 1965 animated TV special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” based on the comic strip Peanuts, there's a great message thanks to Charles M. Schulz... The 25 minute special begins with the Peanuts gang skating on the pond together, singing gleefully “Christmas Time Is Here.” Yet Charlie Brown
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From the 1965 animated TV special, “A Charlie Brown Christmas,” based on the comic strip Peanuts, there's a great message thanks to Charles M. Schulz... The 25 minute special begins with the Peanuts gang skating on the pond together, singing gleefully “Christmas Time Is Here.” Yet Charlie Brown
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“The Hymn of Joy” was a poem written in 1907 by Henry van Dyke. Intended to be musically set to Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” we know it better as the song, “Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee.” Mindful of the current season, allow us to share the original poem in
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“The Hymn of Joy” was a poem written in 1907 by Henry van Dyke. Intended to be musically set to Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy,” we know it better as the song, “Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee.” Mindful of the current season, allow us to share the original poem in
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Ten years and one day ago, I penned the edited post below. For some reason, Christmastime makes us think of what is virtuous, what is good. Some of what is good feels a little unnatural… There’s something about this time of year that makes us all think a little
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Ten years and one day ago, I penned the edited post below. For some reason, Christmastime makes us think of what is virtuous, what is good. Some of what is good feels a little unnatural… There’s something about this time of year that makes us all think a little
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Multiple books have been written about it. Countless editorials. Don’t even start with the plethora of YouTube videos… “What to Do Now… How to Prepare… Prepare Now for Christmas!” And so I began toying and tinkering with sharing some angle of how best to prepare… making my list and
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Multiple books have been written about it. Countless editorials. Don’t even start with the plethora of YouTube videos… “What to Do Now… How to Prepare… Prepare Now for Christmas!” And so I began toying and tinkering with sharing some angle of how best to prepare… making my list and
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Out on the airwaves there has again arisen a clatter, when the rest of us ask: what’s actually the matter? In the days before Christmas, the annual conversation begins: are these songs offensive? With a desire to always be respectful of all, let’s honestly unpack some of the