Pictures From The Past, No. 2
The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” was coined by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. It’s a simple notion that applies to many aspects of our lives, but especially to...
View ArticleLittle known History: African-Americans
History is often reduced to a handful of memorable moments and events. In Black history, those events often include courageous stories like those of The Underground Railroad and historic moments like...
View ArticleFacts about Palm Sunday
Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels....
View ArticlePictures From The Past, No. 3
The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” was coined by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. It’s a simple notion that applies to many aspects of our lives, but especially to...
View ArticlePictures from the Past, No. 4
The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” was coined by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. It’s a simple notion that applies to many aspects of our lives, but especially to...
View ArticleA Mysterious Deep-Sea Creature Has Never Been Seen Alive Before Until Now
In the deep North Atlantic, a small but ghastly-looking female anglerfish floats in the inky-black waters, eerily lit by her wispy, glowing fishing lure and the specks of light illuminating her long...
View ArticleThe Art of Gustave Caillebotte
Self-Portrait by Gustave CaillebotteThe French artist Gustave Caillebotte was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, as they say, but despite his rich family and wealth, Caillebotte was a...
View ArticleThe Stations of the Cross
Stations of the Cross has two related meanings. In one sense, the Stations of the Cross refers to the liturgical practice of using various events in the final hours of Jesus’ life as a structure for...
View ArticlePsychologists Have a Plan to Fix the Broken Science of Psychology
There was something wrong with psychology. A cascade of warning signs arrived all at once in 2011. Famous psychological experiments failed, over and over, when researchers re-did them in their own...
View ArticlePictures of the Past, No. 5
The phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words” was coined by American newspaper editor Arthur Brisbane in 1911. It’s a simple notion that applies to many aspects of our lives, but especially to...
View ArticleHow To Care For Other People When You Are Burned Out
In our over-stressed world, many health care providers, social workers and caregivers are suffering from slow yet painful burnout. Many of the rest of us, working long hours and raising families, seem...
View ArticleTwo Poems by Carmine Giordano
Two Poems by Carmine GiordanoAunt Zadie and the HurricaneWhat? Are you kidding me?This hurricane was always coming it was just a matter of time when the winds would pick up and all the junk of the...
View ArticlePope Francis Wants The Lord's Prayer Changed
Pope FrancisPope Francis has called for a translation of a phrase about temptation in the Lord's Prayer to be changed. The current wording that says "lead us not into temptation" is not a good...
View ArticleTenebrae
Tenebrae is Latin for "darkness". It was a religious service of Western Christianity consisting of matins and lauds of the last three days of Holy Week (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy...
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