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    Lent- Day 19: Jackie and Jesus.

      In one scene of Jackie, Natalie Portman, as Jackie Kennedy, seeks counsel from her priest played by the late Sir John Hurt. The setting is late November 1963, after her husband John…

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    Lent- Day 18: Brave new world?

    (Image Source) Jonathan Storment has a great series on the the theology of Stranger Things at his Patheos blog, and I want to focus on one post in particular, which discusses what…

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    Lent- Day 17: To rendezvous with Death.

    (Image Source)   I was listening to the John F. Kennedy episode of The Washington Post’s Presidential Podcast while chopping mushrooms to go with some leftover pasta for dinner a few hours ago,…

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    Lent- Third Sunday: We are able.

    (Image Source: Dancehall Hiphop)   We’re a few weeks into Lent 2017, and things have gotten real for me. Making a blogpost EVERY day after an extremely lax non-writing schedule over the…

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    Lent- Day 16: Heaven is a place on Earth.

    Kelly, played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, left, and Yorkie, played by Mackenzie Davis, in “San Junipero”, episode 4, season 3 of “Black Mirror”.( Image Source: Nerdist)   I cried when I watched the…

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    Lent- Day 15: I wish I was a little bit taller.

    Skee-lo, I wish I were taller, too. (Image Source: Genius)   While sipping my morning coffee, I caught this past Sunday’s episode of “The Simpsons” entitled “22 for 30” (Incidentally, I’m a…

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    Lent- Day 14: You just call on me brother, when you need a hand.

    Me receiving IVIG at home in 2012. I’ve been part of The Least of These for over five years now.   Despite (or maybe IN SPITE of) a number of Christians publically…

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    Lent- Day 13: Stay Weird.

    Yup, we’re weird. Maybe even Carrie just before getting that bucket of pig’s blood dumped on her-type weird. Or maybe the after. Most definitely after if you’re Pentecostal. (Sissy Spacek in “Carrie”.…

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    Lent- Day 12: Of “Feud” and deceit.

    Jessica Lange as Joan Crawford and Susan Sarandon as Bette Davis in “Feud: Bette and Joan” (FX)   I have a thing for Classic Hollywood. “Singin’ in The Rain“, “North by Northwest“,…

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    Lent- Day 11: For the love of money.

    LAUREN GREENFIELD IMAGE FROM THE ANNENBERG SPACE FOR PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION LAUREN GREENFIELDS GENERATION WEALTH   “Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too…