Towering over West Point and the Hudson River stands the impressive protestant Cadet Chapel. Built in 1910 with native granite, it combines the Gothic Revival style with the imposing weight of medieval fortresses. The chapel’s interior is 56 feet high and adorned by stained glass windows representing the biblical heritage of Christianity, with each window…
PHOTOS: Italian Organist Uplifts Audience at Chapel in New York
Towering over West Point and the Hudson River stands the impressive protestant Cadet Chapel. Built in 1910 with native granite, it combines the Gothic Revival style with the imposing weight of medieval fortresses. The chapel’s interior is 56 feet high and adorned by stained glass windows representing the biblical heritage of Christianity, with each window…
Illuminating Austria, Hope, and Good Cheer
Austrian painter Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller held nature in high esteem. “Nature must be the only source and sum total of our study; there alone can be found the eternal truth and beauty, the expression of which must be the artist’s highest aim in every branch of the plastic arts,” he wrote in 1846. “Self-Portrait at…
Early American Immigrants Celebrated Their New Homeland Through Music
February 16, 2023
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Early arrivals to America brought their cultural heritage, especially their religious music, to the new country. Now separated by an ocean from their oppressive homeland, immigrants brought a new spirit of freedom to their music of worship and ordinary life. The Pilgrim fathers, on their treacherous 66-day voyage across the Atlantic, said their prayers and…
Athena’s Challenge to Modern Mantras
Today, it seems that we are in a world where facts and truth are no longer important; how we feel seems to be the key criterion for establishing whether something is true or not. So we hear the expression “my truth” everywhere, meaning that it is irrefutable because it is “my truth,” no matter what…
A Cinematic View of the American West Through Bierstadt’s Brushstrokes.
“Bring me men to match my mountains, Bring me men to match my plains, Men with empires in their purpose, And new eras in their brains,” penned the American poet Sam Walter Foss in his poem, “The Coming American.” Relatively unchartered by man in the mid 1800’s, were the great western mountains of America. Far…
Film Review: ‘Emily’: Director O’Connor’s Mesmerizing Brontë Biopic
R | 2h 10min | Drama, Biography, History, Literature | 17 February 2023 (UK/USA) Like far too many creative souls who came before and after her, British writer Emily Brontë was taken from us far too soon. Dying on Dec. 19, 1848, of tuberculosis at the age of 30, she passed away without having any idea of the monumental impact that her…
Book Review: ‘The Handler: A Nick Reagan Thriller’
Getting your hands on a fast-paced espionage thriller is always a plus, and Jeffrey S. Stephens has delivered just that in his new book, “The Handler.” Set in a post-Afghanistan-withdrawal-debacle world, Stephens has created a new hero in Nicholas Reagan, a CIA agent who faces off against several recognizable enemies of Chinese communist and Islamic…
Book Review: ‘The Nazi Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill’
Dec. 7, 1941 marks the date in history when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor ushering the United States into World War II. Earlier, in May 1940, Hitler had invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen. France would soon follow. England’s newly elected Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, knew that in order to keep Germany…
Meet Elizabeth Ann Seton: She Substantiated America’s Doctrine of Religious Liberty
In November 1803, the Shepherdess, the ship carrying 29-year-old Elizabeth Ann Seton, her husband William, and their 8-year-old daughter Anna, the oldest of five, docked at Leghorn, Italy. Their desperate hope that this change of climate might cure Will’s tuberculosis immediately turned into a nightmare. Their home and their port of departure, New York, was…
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