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Flashback Friday: Lena Horne on the Blacklist.
Lena Horne (Image Source) Lena Horne- singer, actress, glamour queen of the 1940’s- found herself blacklisted in Hollywood, labeled a Communist betrayer of democracy in the early 1950’s. It was a particularly…
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Flashback Friday: When Sammy Davis Jr. got devilish.
(Image Source: Vice) Last week in the Anton La Vey post, I mentioned how Sammy Davis Jr. became a member of The Church of Satan for a while. This struck me…
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Why do people join cults?
This TED-Ed video ties in nicely with my The Preachers series, and even mentions the Rev. Jim Jones. Check it out.
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The Preachers: Anton La Vey & The Church of Satan.
Anton La Vey and snake. (Image Source) So far in this series, I covered Jim Jones who believed himself better than God (if there was, in fact, a supreme deity); Father…
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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: 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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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 Preachers: Rev. Jim Jones and the horror in Guyana.
(Image and Caption from “The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones & The Peoples Temple”) I just finished “The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones & The Peoples Temple” by Jeff Guinn and, really,…
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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…
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Lent- Day 38: Tonight we eat and drink, for tomorrow He dies.
The Last Supper. Today is Maundy Thursday, A.K.A., the day before Black Friday. From Wikipedia: Maundy Thursday (also known as Holy Thursday, Covenant Thursday, Great and Holy Thursday, Sheer Thursday,…
