Happy Reformation Day!

I hope you all are celebrating in some way today. Perhaps you and your kids are dressing up to hang out with friends, or preparing for All Saints Day, or sharing some funny memes to lighten the weight of history. Maybe doing a little of everything! Something I wanted to do this year was translate …

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Review: Faust

Do you have any books on your shelves that have been there for some time? Maybe you don't even remember why you first bought them. They sit there, and one day you decide, "Now is the time to read this." That was me with Goethe's Faust. With most books, I remember why I got them, …

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Hymns: “All Glory, Laud, and Honor”

"All Glory, Laud, and Honor" is a hymn traditionally sung on Palm Sunday. Though the words, of course, reference the passages of Scripture about the Triumphal Entry and were written for that day, the story goes that this hymn only became known because of an Emperor's change of heart. This hymn was written by a …

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