There are shows that died before their time, such as Firefly. There were certainly shows that suffered from a lack of love and budget cuts, see the third season of Star Trek: The Only Non-Derivative Version.
One television favorite of the return-to-nature wing of homeschooling is Little House on the Prairie and I would nominate it for the show ...
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Philippians is among the sweetest books of the New Testament. It is a short letter from Paul to a congregation that he obviously feels and expresses great affection toward. In 1898, JB Lightfoot, the Bishop of Durham, said that Philippians is “not only the noblest reflexion of St. Paul’s personal character and spiritual illumination, his large ...
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Today (March 6) is the birthday of A. T. Pierson (1837-1911), one of the most influential figures in the history of conservative Protestantism. An American evangelical, Pierson had an extensive teaching ministry throughout the English-speaking world; the most famous post he held was that he took over the pulpit of the Metropolitan Tabernacle as C....
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Spoiler alert: I will be talking about plot in this review, so don’t read it if you haven’t seen the movie, or unless you don’t plan on seeing it anyway!
Most people who hear the name Oxford immediately think about J.R.R. Tolkien (Lord of the Rings) or C.S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia), but they often forget that the “City of Dreaming ...
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It is bad enough if bad information costs you the value of your 401-K, but worse if it costs your soul. Being told you are wrong is important at any time, but hearing that you might be wrong about critical areas is vital.
Who wants to be wrong about the big questions of life?
No friend would see such a major mistake being made without express...
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There is an ancient Chinese proverb: “Women hold up half the sky.” Tonight (March 4), a special one-night movie event took place in cinemas across the United States. It was a film based on the international best-selling book Half the Sky by New York Times Op-Ed columnist Nicholas Kristof and his wife Sheryl WuDunn, a former Times correspon...
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I'm not sure what came over John Wesley, but one day he got positively excited about the idea of showing the organic, systematic structure of Christian faith. This kind of passion for understanding structural relationships was not his normal way of working: he was a preacher and a world-changer, not a theological ponderer or chart-maker. But on at ...
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