To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Peggy Guggenheim figured she should at least give the guy a shot. The New York City socialite and art collector had crisscrossed Paris in 1940 as the Nazis closed in, purchasing a treasure trove of modern art. She returned home eager to put it on display – and, if possible, to… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here On August 15, 1943, Allied planes dropped high-explosive bombs on Milan, Italy. Their goal was to drive Axis forces, loyal to Hitler’s Germany, from their strongholds in the city. Despite the intentions of Allied pilots to spare, if possible, Milan’s irreplaceable art treasures, a bomb fell within 80 feet of the… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Christian Hip Hop. That can’t be right. That sounds like either watered-down, preachy rap music, or some kind of culturally compromised Christianity. But the albums of the rapper Lecrae are neither. What they are is artistically brilliant. The first 20 years of Lecrae Moore’s life weren’t substantially different from those of other… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “Hi, I’m 11 and I want a record deal. Call me.” You have to say this about Taylor Swift: She has never lacked confidence. As a preteen hoping to break into the country music scene, she darted in and out of Nashville record companies while her mother and brother waited in… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Great musicians write killer songs. One of history’s greatest musicians wrote a composition that almost “kills” those who are courageous enough to try to play it. We’re talking about Ludvig van Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, arguably the ultimate piano masterpiece from the man who almost singlehandedly defined the technical possibilities of the keyboard. Beethoven wrote 32… Read more »