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Beyond the Sermon on the Mount
Great leaders make great speeches. Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address . Winston Churchill’s We Shall Never Surrender . Queen Elizabeth’s (then princess) 21st Birthday Speech . Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s I Have a Dream . Great speeches inspire. Inform. Incite. We remember them. Study them. Quote them. But what lends the greatness to these speeches are the people behind them. Eloquence alone fades. We remember these speeches because …[ read more ]
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Think You Know What Happened on Thanksgiving? You DO!
I thought we had escaped the holiday this year without the usual revisionist history lessons disguised as news reports but last night my local news carried a story about the confusion surrounding the ACTUAL events of the first Thanksgiving. This reporter apparently subscribes to the scattershot method of journalism. He managed to report that the …[ read more ]