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Song of Iluvatur: A Silmarillion Story
All about him he could hear the music of his companions. Aragorn and Boromir wove an ancient harmony of war and oath. Gandalf’s melody was strong and sure.
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Magic in the Sand: A Fan’s Review of Disney’s Aladdin
BY T.K. WILSON I don’t remember the first time I saw Disney’s Aladdin. It just seems like it’s always been in my life.
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The Bluebird: Bluebird Helps Ananse
As such, the legend of the Bluebird spread across space and tongues.
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Creation and an Alarm Clock
As prayers on the morning of Creation – Before the alarms alarm and the buzzers buzz
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Maimonides: What Lessons Can He Teach Us Today?
BY ROBERT ROSENWALD Maimonides would remind us that the Abrahamic religions are fundamentally Middle Eastern migrating siblings.
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There’d be No Santa Claus without St. Nicholas: Remembering the Saint behind the Legend
BY ANNA TROTTA GITHENS Credit should be given where credit is due: Santa wouldn’t exist if St. Nicholas, the bishop of Myra, hadn’t existed.
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Lady Judith
Don’t ask me why, but Lady Judith had lived here year-round ever since her husband, Manasseh, died at the barley harvest three years before.
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C. S. Lewis and the Calormenes: A Critique of Narnia’s Arabesque Baddies
BY AVELLINA BALESTRI Lewis wasn’t in it for accuracy as much as to spin a colorful yarn that stoked the imaginations of mostly Western, Christian children.
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The Christ
BY TIMOTHY MATHER I am the Water of Life that quenches thirst always. I am the Word spread to the four corners by the wind.
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The Jeweler’s Apprentice: Chapter 20
BY E. KAISER WRITES “I got an apprenticeship, and this sort of happened with it. Father knows all about it, Evin.”
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Burnt: A Harry Potter Serial- Chapter 31: Dumbledore’s Fate
By LastCrazyHorn Word Count: 105891 Rating: PG-13 for brief language, violence, and depictions of abuse Summary: A disabled Harry comes to Hogwarts story. Everyone expects him to be like his dad, but how can he be with such a different past? A Slytherin Harry takes on Hogwarts in an unusual way Snape shook off Moody’s hand with…
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A Short Discourse on Friendship
BY SARAH LEVESQUE There’s nothing particular wrong with any of these types of friendships, as long as you are both on the same page.
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Kinana’s Chronicle
BY JANETTA MUNIRAH MACLEAN “Ya Allah, you are the Fashioner and the Maker and the Knower and Shaper of destiny. Please, please help me.”
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“And Still to Their Goal the Rivers Go”
The river currents flow, and so do we And find our sunlit dreams upon the sea
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Angels of Music: A Phantom of the Opera Story
“Tonight I sing your words for you, alone.”
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I Saw Santa Punching Arius: Saint Nicholas at the Council of Nicaea
BY IAN T. WILSON Some of the most saintly people I know lose their tempers on occasion, and this was one of those occasions.
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A First Christmas Reflection
BY ASHLEY WENGERD The Bible says that God existed in the beginning, and Jesus is God, so obviously Jesus knew that He had to come down to earth.
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Christmas Morning
God came to us. His journey began as a seed. The smallest treasure, placed by the mightiest hand into the secret place of a daughter of Adam, that we in good time may receive.