John Augustine reviews biographies and recounts the lives of the people featured in them. From Delta College Public Radio.
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Welcome to Lifelines podcast. Lifelines are sound bites that bring God's thoughts on life to you. You will profit from listening! Cover art photo provided by Sean O. on Unsplash: https://unsplash.com/@seantookthese
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In these four episodes we will sit with different guests and professionals as we will discuss how to live with hope in a frenzied world. We will feature spiritual disciplines that will teach us to live into healthy rhythms of prayer and scripture to find hope in today's world.
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Authors who spread the Protestant Reformation risked censorship, imprisonment, or even death, including Michael Servetus, who was burned alive along with most copies of his book.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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In the late 1950s, white author John Howard Griffin disguised himself as a Black man to experience the state of race relations in the segregated South from the other side.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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While Kosciuszko's family was part of Poland's upper 10%, this military leader's sympathies were for the disenfranchised.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Ever felt unsatisfied or anxious?? Have you felt guilty because you did?? It's ok because you're not alone. In today's world, it's increasingly common to feel that way. In today's episode, we have author Amy Simpson who has written numerous books, to help tackle those very feelings and thoughts.โดย Christ Church Oak Brook
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The stigma attached to therapy has always existed. It's unfortunate and unnecessary. Have you ever thought about pursuing therapy and wondered more about it, but were afraid to because of the stigma attached to it, especially in some religious communities?? Well today we have a psychiatrist who serves as the Chief of Mental Health at Edward Hines V…
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Do you sometimes feel seen or unheard?? Even in today's world of endless social media sharing and endless communication, it's still possible to feel left out and unheard. It can be hard to be vulnerable, but you're not alone in feeling that way. Today's speaker will talk and teach us to have empathy and vulnerability, how to avoid and shed shame in…
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Simply living life can be and often is a daily challenge of wanting to be better, doing better, and figuring out how to be better. It can ofter feel like a never ending impossible balance of trying to put in the work and wondering if you're worth it. Today's guest will emphatically tell you yes YOU ARE WORTH THE WORK!! and she has written a book en…
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Machu Picchu was built mere decades before the Spanish invasion of South America, yet almost no one knew about it until the ruins were discovered in 1911 by Hiram Bingham.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Return with us now to a time when bright and ambitious students studied vocabulary lists to enhance their erudition and learn about a man responsible for bringing many of these words into the English language.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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There is a select group of people who have become prominent in history because of one brief moment in their lives. For abolitionist Congressman Charles Sumner, that moment was being assaulted with a cane by a furious Southern senator.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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King Edward of England's brutal execution of William Wallace was meant to intimidate the Scots, but instead it inflamed them and a new leader arose: Robert the Bruce.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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John Hay would serve every Republican administration from Abraham Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt even though he was never elected to office himself.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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There is a cliché that artists must struggle, but Frida Kahlo must hold the world record.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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How could the famously enlightened city of Athens execute one of its most outstanding citizens? A reporter covers a trial held 2,400 years ago in this book.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Today's review covers the second half of Walt Disney's career, following up on the success of Mickey Mouse and Snow White.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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A century ago you could see many bizarre sideshows on the boardwalk at Coney Island. But one of these was not an act, but a system that saved thousands of premature babies.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Years ago, I read a fine biography of Gershwin, but I decided to read a more recent one and, sure enough, I'm impressed by Gershwin all over again.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Dylan Thomas wasn't just a star. He was a supernova blazing before us before flaming out.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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The American detective story with its hardboiled protagonist walking the mean streets was invented by Dashiell Hammett.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Johnny Appleseed might be the best known figure from America's past that most people know almost nothing about (and one that many believe to be a myth).โดย Delta College Public Radio
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There are many people with TV shows named after them, but only a few have entire networks, and only Walt Disney transformed American culture.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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The story of Abraham Lincoln is best take in small doses and today's book focuses on the events leading up to and including the dedication of the cemetery at Gettysburg.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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It seems wrong to call Frank Lloyd Wright a "modern" architect - he was born just two years after the end of the Civil War. But he lived a long life and some of his buildings still look something that landed from outer space.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Is it possible that The Iliad and The Odyssey, with over 25,000 lines between them, originated in oral tradition rather than written texts? This is the story of a young Classics student who set out to prove it.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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The little-known story of screenwriter Salka Viertel, who created a refuge for famous figures escaping World War ll.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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The second part of our review of His Excellency, George Washington.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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After 13 years of this program, we are finally getting around to the first and most important leader in American history.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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The reason for the season is still all that matters at this time
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The first person to attain the grand status of rocket scientist was Robert Goddard, a pioneer who laid the groundwork for space travel.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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The name of Hatshepsut, a woman who declared herself king of Egypt, was scratched out of the hieroglyphics, but her story is told in this week's biography.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Trial lawyers are popular protagonists in TV and movies, but few are celebrated in biographies, except for Clarence Darrow.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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You've likely never heard of General Alexandre Dumas, but his life served as inspiration for the swashbuckling adventure stories written by his famous son.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Dorothea Lange's most famous photograph is of a weather-beaten migrant mother whose face is burned into the American soul.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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An immigrant peddler's son, Julius Rosenwald headed to Chicago and eventually became the head of one of the most successful companies in the world.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Would you be interested in a biography of the world's most famous speech therapist, a man you may already be familiar with?โดย Delta College Public Radio
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America's take on the detective novel gave us hard-boiled figures like Raymond Chandler's gumshoe Philip Marlowe.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Bach is the grandmaster of German baroque, but so little is known about Bach's life that after his death, he almost disappeared!โดย Delta College Public Radio
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One of the world's most famous paintings is "Whistler's Mother" by James McNeill Whistler, except that it isn't, even though she is.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Shortly after the time of Marco Polo, another traveler from Morocco set out on the Hajj to Mecca and ended up traveling to many more places.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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How is the new year going to be? What's in store? Who is in charge?
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Be anxious for nothing but trust in God's faithfulness that is consistent all year round!
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We should be grateful because we are grateful, not because we are better than someone else.
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To get out of a fix, you need to access a higher level
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Some lives can't be squeezed into a single book, so it's nice to find a biography that focuses on an aspect of a life.โดย Delta College Public Radio
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Are you on course or drifting? Let's do a quick check
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Sometimes we run away from what we need most.
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Are you serving as a tank or hose?
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Every bit of your life matters to God
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Sometimes your day doesn't seem to be going right. What do you do at such times?
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It's God's party, who gets the invitation!
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