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The Preachers: Aimee Semple McPherson, America’s first female celeb evangelist.
Aimee Semple McPherson, the Pentecostal Preacher who could’ve been a Silent Screen Star. (Image: Foursquare Church) Aimee Semple McPherson was… so much. A Canadian missionary to China as a young newlywed;…
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Flashback Friday: When Grace Kelly stormed out of the Stork Club after they refused to serve Josephine Baker.
Grace Kelly and Josephine Baker, circa 1951. (Image sources here and here) In October 1951, Grace Kelly, just beginning to make a name for herself, decided to have a night out on…
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Come Clean: Glenn Lewis, don’t forget what, exactly?
Basically my face everytime I actually try to sing the lyrics to this song over the past fifteen years. (Image via Vevo) Welcome to the first in my new series, “Come…
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Flashback Friday: The Black Actress Who Launched her career in “The Birth of a Nation”.
(Madame Sul-Te-Wan, Image Source: BlackPast.org) And no, I absolutely do NOT mean last year’s controversial Nate Parker flick, “The Birth of a Nation”. I’m talking the D.W. Griffith, 1915 film that celebrates the…
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Flashback Friday: That time Eartha Kitt made the First Lady cry.
LBJ LIBRARY PHOTO BY KEVIN SMITH I love the above picture. I love that in 1968, Eartha Kitt, singer, dancer, Catwoman, invited to one of those oh-so proper “Ladies who Lunch”…
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Joan Crawford has risen from the grave.
Joan Crawford in 1959, by Eve Arnold. I wrote about FX’s “Feud: Bette And Joan” during my Lenten series of blog posts. I just watched the finale, “You Mean All This Time…
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The Preachers: Father Divine, god to millions.
(Image Source: NewsWorks) I first heard the name “Father Divine” as a child from my mom, musing over her grandmother’s occasional penchant for following (via correspondence, radio or TV) some rather…
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The sophistication of “The Simpsons”.
(Complex) If you don’t know by now, I’m a huge fan of “The Simpsons”. The classic, early years AND the current episodes. I never stopped watching, even during that *very* rough period…
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Easter 2017
Happy Easter! Sunday was very warm, bright and sunny. Our church’s sanctuary was decorated with many lilies and tulips, and the smell of incense wafted through the building. The sun’s rays poured…
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Lent- Day 39: Good Friday.
C.S. Lewis (Image Source) An excerpt from today’s reading of my Lenten devotional book, “Preparing for Easter” by C.S. Lewis, titled “What Are We to Make of Jesus Christ?”: Then…
