Before becoming a pastor, I spent 12 years working as a consultant at various tech startups. I can remember the sound of my first Human Resources Director’s heels as she clodhopped across our high-gloss epoxy floors to begin orientation. With vivid red lipstick she expeditiously exclaimed, “Welcome! Two things we never talk about here: politics...
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Not Suitable for Family Time! The Crown has been thrilling — watching (sometimes fictionalized) tensions behind closed doors at Buckingham Palace — but a different Netflix account of “royalty” at the same intersection, that of money, power, and fame is equally thrilling: Peaky Blinders. Like other shows with a cult-like following, Peaky Blinders boasts a...
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Let me tell you a story… Since ancient of days, these words have held our collective imaginations captive. We all enjoy a good story: to be drawn into a compelling narrative; to be transfixed by flawed but sympathetic characters; to be swept away by conflict, tension, adventure; and finally, to be rescued by resolution, conclusion,...
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Falling, falling, falling…. and finally, he fell. When the clock struck 9:30 pm or so, with our bowl of popcorn between us, we spent many evenings looking in on the strangely sad life of “Mad Men,” the storied series about Donald Draper and his fellows, men and women who populated the advertising world of Madison...
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