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He was a man that was said to have calmed a storm. Some people claimed that he even raised the dead. Making three boys, who were killed and chopped up, and pickled, turn instantly back to life after a Sign of The Cross was made.
He was revered by many Christian churches, and even celebrated every year in December.
Now, we are not talking about a carpenter’s son from Nazareth. But instead, we are talking about a bishop, the Bishop of Myra, a man who was born in Turkey, around 280 A.D., and died...

Today, preparing for the gluttony and the feast we call Thanksgiving, I stumbled upon an old song called, Let All Things Now Living, set to an old Welsh tune. And I recalled also the author’s most famous song, and its story. Her name was Kay.
She was one of those artists that truly felt her music. She wrote music with lines like ‘all alone, all alone…no one knows ….no one cares…’ ‘he’s gone away…to stay a little while.’ She sometimes wrote about characters in pain like that of Nancy Hanks, the...

The Little Bird of Hypocrisy.
Been a while since I have blogged, so many of you are saying, “better be good!”
And I hope that it is because I have been thinking about this blog now for several months. The reason I took so long to write my thoughts down was because of the tremendous moral lesson that hit me in the face recently.
Let me begin by telling you what happened a few months ago on a commute to Charlotte, North Carolina, along narrow and curvy country roads that at any given minute can in...

George Washington had over 300 slaves. Surely, as a Founding Father, he was the last U.S. President to have owned a slave. Not quite. Eight presidents owned slaves while holding office.Thomas Jefferson owned about 200…James Madison over 100, and Andrew Jackson at least 150.Besides marrying into slavery, as his wife, Julia, owned a few, Ulysses S. Grant had a slave of his own—a man called William. And what makes it more interesting is that Grant, a former Union General, eventually fought...

Jane’s health was failing. In her eighties, she had completed many years on the screen, television and stage. Although, it took a long time to get to stardom.Her first film, a silent picture, was not completed until she was almost 40. Liking the gig, she stayed during the transition to talkies—her age made her the perfect candidate for the grandmother role, the wise or the kind lady. The job was not quite the "nun" vocation that she had considered earlier in her life.She was “Ma”—the queen of...

George was a student of several fields, and he was a budding scientist. He served in the military, in the Belgian army, and he was given the Belgian War Cross. He studied math, astronomy, and astrophysics. And then, he became both popular and sometimes controversial with a little project about a cosmic egg.
He argued that the universe was continually expanding. The universe had begun from a dense, solid state, and it had grown from there. Albert Einstein, at first, disagreed with him, eve...

 His own mind was his own church. Deism was his religion. There was one God, and there were moral virtues to imitate or follow. That’s it. Controversial ideas to some, and yet, Thomas Paine fought, through the publications of several pamphlets and books, for ideas that were ahead of his time. He believed in things like pension plans based upon incomes and dividends. He believed in taxing landowners to pay for the needs of those that had no land.
One of his controversial and thrilling writ...

Richard signed the document, number 12th on the list, in fact. The merchant signed something that we know of as “The Mayflower Compact.” The year was 1620. The agreement was between men called saints, sinners, and “strangers.” Some were Separatists, fleeing religious persecution. And others were simply businessmen.Severe storms had forced the Mayflower ship off course, far away from their original destination of Virginia. The compact was out of necessity, the organization of rules, a replacem...

René was an abolitionist and a supporter of the Union, during the Great Civil War in the United States during the 1860’s. René admired, I believe, the search and the quest for freedom and also wanted the same passion to be ignited in his own country, France. He was a poet and an author who wrote about his admiration of the United States Constitution. He even served on a committee that assisted slaves that gained their freedom after the war in America was over.
René loved the idea of freedom an...

Victoria was very much in love—with her cousin. She once said that her husband possessed every quality to make her happy. And, indeed, that happiness brought forth nine children, two of which were born using a most modern technique of anesthesia called chloroform.
It was an age of spiritual and personal exploration where part of the civilized world looked upon their faults and attempted to address them, either by law, with regards to child labor or prostitution, or by war, such as the Great Ci...