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  • Lent 2021/ Flashback Friday: The Assassination of Martin Luther King’s Mother.

    We’re flashing back this Lenten Friday to 1974 when MLK’s mom was shot down while playing the organ one summer Sunday morning.

    March 26, 2021
  • Lent 2020, Fifth Sunday: Love, have Mercy.

    I hope your Sunday has treated you well. I’m okay. Praying. Hoping. But okay.

    March 29, 2020
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    Flashback Friday: Eldridge Cleaver- From Panther to PTL.

    Kathleen and Eldridge Cleaver in the early 1970s. (Image Source) I’m currently reading “PTL:”The Rise and Fall of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker’s Evangelical Empire” by John Wigger. Spoiler alert: my next…

    August 18, 2017
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    Flashback Friday: The 1977 NYC Blackout.

    (Image Source)   Forty years ago yesterday, New York City, which supposedly never sleeps, went dark. And then, went mad. From Time: The blackout that hit New York on… July 13, in…

    July 14, 2017
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    Flashback Friday: When Sammy Davis Jr. got devilish.

    (Image Source: Vice)   Last week in the Anton La Vey post, I mentioned how Sammy Davis Jr. became a member of The Church of Satan for a while. This struck me…

    June 16, 2017

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