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  • Lent 2023, Day 14: The Color (and Coloring) of Christ.

    Lots to read in this one.

    March 9, 2023
  • Lent 2023, Day 13: Here’s to All the Ladies.

    “My persuasion
    Can build a nation
    Endless power
    With our love we can devour”

    March 8, 2023
  • Lent 2021, Day 24: Repentance AND Reparations AND Reconciliation.

    Putting in that work.

    March 16, 2021
  • Emancipation engraving copy

    Flashback Friday: That time Lincoln planned to free the slaves and send them south of the border.

    Engraving by Thomas Nast in 1865. (Source)   I recently binge-listened to “Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom” by David W. Blight on Audible. It clocks in at nearly 37 hours, and makes…

    December 28, 2018
  • ae ma

    Flashback Friday: That time Albert Einstein hosted Marian Anderson.

    There’s a lot I’ve just found out about Albert Einstein. For example, who knew old Al was quite the ladies’ man, a master at science and charm? But another fact that I…

    September 15, 2017

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