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Excerpt from In Memoriam A. H. H.
Alfred Tennyson
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6:58
O Jesus, I Have Promised
Our hymn today brings into play two relationships that may seem to us impossible to combine. One is of friend with friend, and the other is of Master…
Oct 8
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FRIEND
“It is like taking the sun out of the world,” says Cicero, “to bereave human life of friendship, than which the gods have given man nothing more…
Oct 7
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5:23
"Let's Fall in Love"
Harold Arlen was recently married when he wrote this song, having himself fallen in love in his twenties when his future wife was a show girl still in…
Oct 5
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Debra Esolen
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Huckleberry Finn (Aloud)
Chapters 19-20
Oct 4
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43:29
Odd Man Out (1947)
Our film is about a terrorist Irish patriot, on the lam after escaping from prison. He's been ordered to rob a mill. But is he up to the task…
Oct 3
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To Autumn
Sometimes a work which is perfect, flawless in its kind. Such a poem is John Keats’ three-stanza ode, “To Autumn.”
Oct 2
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4:35
O Gladsome Light
Here is one of the earliest Christian hymns we still possess, perhaps the very earliest. English poet Robert Bridges happily rendered the Greek as "O…
Oct 1
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September 2024
FALL
Why do we have two words in English to describe the season before winter -- autumn and fall? Read or listen to find out!
Sep 30
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"I'll Be Seeing You"
Irving Kahal/Sammy Fain
Sep 28
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Debra Esolen
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Huckleberry Finn (Aloud)
Today’s reading is Chapters 17 and 18 of Huckleberry Finn -- Huck’s time with the Grangerfords, feuding with the Shepherdsons. Listen and laugh along…
Sep 27
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43:25
Rear Window (1954)
Artists, actors, directors, musicians, poets, even sports stars are often underrated because people see what they do very well but miss that they do…
Sep 26
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