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In 2011, then-President Barack Obama attended an intimate dinner in Silicon Valley. At one point, he turned to the man on his left. What would it take, Obama asked Steve Jobs, for Apple to manufacture its iPhones in the United States instead of China? Jobs was unequivocal: “Those jobs aren’t coming back.” Jobs’s prognostication has …
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This Week in AG History — August 11, 1945 By Ruthie Edgerly ObergOriginally published on AG News, 13 August 2020 When the Pentecostal movement began to take root at the Azusa Street Mission in 1906 under the leadership of William J. Seymour, there were other missions springing up in Los Angeles that joined with what […] …
Two centuries ago, the British statesman John Bright warned against “following visionary phantoms in all parts of the world while your own country is becoming rotten within”. It is symptomatic of how diseased American strategic thinking has become over the past 30 years that so few Americans in a position to influence the direction of… via …
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Last week, on 5 August, the Prime Minister of India laid a foundation stone and helped bury a distinctive period in global history. Narendra Modi had travelled to Ayodhya, a city long identified by Hindus with one of their most beloved gods. Lord Rama — avatar of Vishnu and hero of the Sanskrit epic, the… via …
I grew up in a family of serious drinkers, which goes back a long way, as my grandfather’s involvement in this should attest. That meant that we had a stocked bar in the house (it wasn’t a “wet bar” in the sense that it had a sink, but it was stocked all the same.) At […] …
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Epoch Universal Publications/NALR 33420/FAI-78 (1978) https://youtu.be/yovIf-WvVh0 "Best Of"/Compilations weren't unknown in the "Jesus Music" era but they weren't common either. This is an interesting one, selected from the extensive offerings the ministry had in the 1970's. It includes many of their best known artists (and some lesser known ones) as follows: Paul Quinlan, a pioneer …
Twentieth Century-Fox TFM 3129 (1964) It's something of a departure from our usual offerings, but this is a vinyl phonograph documentary of Pope Paul VI's visit to the Holy Land at the time of the Epiphany in January 1964. First, however, some explanation of the medium is in order. https://youtu.be/1FNJEI-jGC4 Until the advent of video …
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E&M EMLP-005 (1966) This album comes from the Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Little Rock, Arkansas. It was done by the Episcopal Young Churchmen under the direction of the Rev. Edgar E. Shippey. As the name implies, the album's inspiration came from their retreats in the Arkansas mountains, with musical arrangement assisted by James A. Pence, …
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The composer and musician for much of the "sort-of Old Folk Mass" finds himself in hot water: Three women on Wednesday accused Catholic composer David Haas of sexual misconduct, the country’s leading Catholic newspaper reported. In an article in The National Catholic Reporter, the women detailed nonconsensual sexual acts by Mr. Hass when they were …
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Anglicans are often proud of the central place of scripture in prayer book worship, especially the lectionaries, those scheduled scripture readings for the Daily Offices of Morning and Evening Prayer and the Eucharist. Certainly, it is true that a widening diversity of calendars and lectionaries across the Anglican world are limiting claims about uniformity of… via …
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