Rick Shapiro Diaries is a glimpse into the mind of the ranting comedic genius from the Lower East Side. Recorded from Rick's home every week, each episode is an uncut stream of consciousness of hilarious and earnest thought.
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One of your favorite series from CNN is now available in your favorite podcast app. Join world-renowned chef, bestselling author and Emmy winner Anthony Bourdain to discover Parts Unknown: little-known destinations and diverse cultures that make our global community more connected. Start from the beginning in Myanmar, and listen through the series conclusion on the Lower East Side in New York City.
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Join us in conversation with Mark Russ Federman, former owner and proprietor of Russ & Daughters, as he discusses his new book, "Russ & Daughters: Reflections and Recipes From the House That Herring Built." His book chronicles the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to the beloved smoked fish appetizing shop on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Mark will also share some stories and take a few questions.
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A sparkling 8-part comedic, musical, radio drama series, original and unique, Grace Under Pressure follows “the simple story of a woman alone in New York in the ‘90s, an age of diminished expectations.” Inappropriate affairs, office sexual politics, pyramid scheme fraud, cynical art-world pay-to-play, sweatshop fashion, even the AIDS crisis, dealt with the light touch, suggestive humor and speedy delivery of screwball comedy. Grace under Pressure began as an Off-Off Broadway project in 1992, ...
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Join Ashley Greene ("Twilight") as she discusses "CBGB," her new film that looks at New York’s dynamic punk rock scene through the lens of the groundbreaking Lower East Side club. Started in 1973 by eccentric Hilly Kristal originally as a home for “country, bluegrass, and blues” (thus the club’s name), CBGB showcased cutting-edge bands all the way through to its closing in 2006.
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Hi guys! Welcome with open arms Queen Blogger! The young female blogger from Lower East Side, NY is here to entertain you all with her life experiences, dramatic changes in life and awareness to help the young individuals who are in need of acceptance and guidance. Things are about to get REAL LIT! Tune in and feel free to leave some feedback! IG:therealqweenb_
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You are now entering the minds of 3 native New Yorkers as we dissect mainstream topics from 3 different perspectives. Nise is a brooklynite who is a passionate visionary that has a deep rooted appreciation for originality. J is a raw individual from Harlem who tells it how it is with no pun intended. Rissa is the in-house journalist who derives from the Lower East Side, she uses her whit & knowledge to bring light to serious topics. 90's Voicemail Podcast was created to bring back nostalgia ...
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Heroes aren’t born, they’re made. This is the epic tale of Jack Kirby, the most famous cartoonist you never heard of: Born in the Lower East Side slums, veteran of the battlefields of France, co-creator of CAPTAIN AMERICA, THE AVENGERS, THE X-MEN, Kirby had his biggest fight after his comic books became an international sensation: He had to fight for his name, and the recognition he was denied. An audio version of the New York Times Critics' Pick play by award-winning Crystal Skillman and Fr ...
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A nonfiction history podcast telling the stories of interesting and creative people by touring their old homes.
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These American stories are not in your standard history book. History tends to be reduced to key moments and celebrated names, and what’s often overlooked are the stories of the ordinary people, both past and present, who have lived through journeys of immigration and migration...the people who have shaped what it means to be and to become American. How To Be American is a podcast by the Tenement Museum where from New York’s Lower East Side, we explore the history of immigration and migratio ...
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What happens to a place when the cultures within it change over time? Lost Cultures: Living Legacies, a new podcast from Travel + Leisure, spotlights destinations that have experienced significant cultural shifts throughout history. We reveal how they build upon and complement one another, while preserving their traditions. Through conversations with archeologists, academics, artists, and local members of the communities, we recount the evolution of these enduring cultures from their beginni ...
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A student-run radio club at The New School
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Changing the Trajectory is a podcast hosted by James Seth Thompson that seeks to inspire and empower meaningful generational planning and legacy building through intentional and deliberate action. Featuring roundtable discussions that highlight multicultural markets and communities as breeding grounds for success and change, we offer fresh perspectives on responsibility and investing. Learn to prioritize core values and act with intent to leverage influence and create lasting impact. We won’ ...
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Food, sex, death, middle-aged love, moving to the country and raising chickens. What could be hotter? Licking the Bowl is author/performer Ericka Lutz's podcast. With recipes. Licking the Bowl: Sometimes it's literal. Sometimes it's metaphorical. Always it's delicious.
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Trey Van Camp is the pastor of Passion Creek Church. He planted Passion Creek in 2016 in the East Valley of Phoenix, AZ and is known for being a vlogger on YouTube. This podcast consists of his sermons, workshops, Q&As, and more. Jesus offers you a better way to life and a better way to lead. By God's grace, this podcast will remind you of exactly that.
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The tides of American history lead through the streets of New York City — from the huddled masses on Ellis Island to the sleazy theaters of 1970s Times Square. The elevated railroad to the Underground Railroad. Hamilton to Hammerstein! Greg and Tom explore more than 400 years of action-packed stories, featuring both classic and forgotten figures who have shaped the world.
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The Spiritually Lame & The Spiritual Leader
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In Acts 3, we meet a man unable to walk sitting outside of the temple. Separated from the presence of God and others, this man was left to beg for a living. But when Peter and John encounter him, they offer more than gold or silver; they offer him healing, both for his body and for his shame. Like this man, many of us today carry shame from our wic…
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The Age of Innocence: Inside Edith Wharton's Classic Novel
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Edith Wharton’s Age of Innocence is a perfect novel to read in the spring — maybe its all the flowers — so I finally picked it up to re-read, in part due to this excellent episode from the Gilded Gentleman which we are presenting to you this week. The Age of Innocence is Edith Wharton’s most famous novel, an enduring classic of Old New York that ha…
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Most of us carry unrealistic expectations when it comes to church community. We all want the perfect personality to lead us, the perfect people around us, the perfect programs to serve us, and the perfect place to make us comfortable. But few of us fail to realize that community based around these things won’t feed the deep longing we have in our s…
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#428 The New York Game: Baseball in the Early Years
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Baseball, as American as apple pie, really is “the New York game.” While its precursors come from many places – from Jamestown to Prague – the rules of American baseball and the modern ways of enjoying it were born from the urban experience and, in particular, the 19th-century New York region. The sport (in the form that we know it today) developed…
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#427 The Chrysler Building and the Great Skyscraper Race
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The Chrysler Building remains one of America's most beautiful skyscrapers and a grand evocation of Jazz Age New York. But this architectural tribute to the automobile is also the greatest reminder of a furious construction surge that transformed the city in the 1920s. After World War I, New York became newly prosperous, one of the undisputed busine…
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Feasting with the Sinner [Hospitality E4]
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Many of Jesus’ interactions with the lost happened over a meal. In Luke 7:34, Jesus is accused of being “a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners.” The Gospel of Luke illustrates this well: In Luke 5, Jesus is described dining with tax collectors and sinners at a man named Levi’s house. Jesus is anointed by a sinful woman wh…
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Going to 2 Services + Hosting Strangers
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The intro music is too loud but bear with us! We talk a lot about leadership, going to 2 services, and hosting strangers.By Trey Van Camp
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If “loving your neighbor as yourself” was the second most important commandment in the scriptures according to Jesus, then it’s something we should make a regular part of our day-to-day life. But in our hyper-individualistic and self-serving culture, few of us actually get to know the strangers we interact with on a daily basis.Jesus and his discip…
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#426 Behind the Domino Sign: Brooklyn's Bittersweet Empire
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The Brooklyn waterfront was once decorated with a yellow Domino Sugar sign, affixed to an aging refinery along a row of deteriorating industrial structures facing the East River. The Domino Sugar Refinery, completed in 1883 (replacing an older refinery after a devastating fire), was more than a factory. During the Gilded Age and into the 20th centu…
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Feasting With the Saints - The Shadow Side of Community
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When the people of God are described throughout the Bible, they’re most often described as a family. And when family gathers for dinner, they share more than just a meal. They share life, stories, laughter, questions, tragedies, and celebrations. Throughout the scriptures, the people of God use meals to mark this kind of fellowship.The art of eatin…
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Feasting on the Savior - What is Communion?
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All throughout the Gospels Jesus is described eating, feasting, and partying with common people. Jesus is almost always going to a meal, at a meal, or coming from a meal. The early church adopted this practice as well. The book of Acts tells us that the first followers of Jesus made it a regular habit to break bread from house to house, eating with…
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#425 It Happened at Madison Square Park
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So much has happened in and around Madison Square Park -- the leafy retreat at the intersections of Broadway, Fifth Avenue and 23rd Street -- that telling its entire story requires an extra-sized episode, in honor of our 425th episode. Madison Square Park was the epicenter of New York culture from the years following the Civil War to the early 20th…
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E3 - Practice - The Third Stage of Making Friends & Loving Other People
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When it comes to developing deep friendships that form and shape us into the image of Jesus, one barrier often stops us: preferences. Rather than commit to a community of people who hold us accountable and build us up, we find it easier to surround ourselves with others who think like, act like, and approve of us. But the people of God have never f…
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Rewind: Truman Capote and the Black and White Ball
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FX is debuting a new series created by Ryan Murphy — called Feud: Capote and the Swans -- regarding writer Truman Capote's relationship with several famed New York society women. And it's such a New York story that listeners have asked if we’re going to record a tie-in show to that series. Well, here it is! Capote -- who was born 100 years ago this…
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E2 - Vulnerability - The Second Stage of Making Friends & Loving Other People
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One of the hardest but most rewarding features of any healthy friendship is vulnerability. We get the most out of our relationships when we allow ourselves to be fully known and truly loved. And yet, few of us actually experience this type of freeing love.Instead, we live in private shame over our weaknesses, wickedness, and woundedness. But the go…
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E1 - How to Make Friends & Love Other People
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As connected, informed, and globalized as we are through social media and the internet, we’re also becoming more and more lonely. Fewer and fewer people admit to having close friends, and as life becomes more automated and individualized, it’s easier to go through our days without any meaningful interactions with other people.But this is far from t…
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#424 Kosciuszko! The Man. The Bridge. The Legend.
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The Kosciuszko Bridge is one of New York City's most essential pieces of infrastructure, the hyphen in the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway that connects the two boroughs over Newtown Creek, the 3.5 mile creek which empties into the East River. The bridge is interestingly named for the Polish national hero Tadeusz Kościuszko who fought during the America…
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This message looks at the 3 names of Jesus in Matthew 1.By Trey Van Camp
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#423 Leonard Bernstein's New York, New York
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On the morning of November 14th, 1943, Leonard Bernstein, the talented 25-year-old assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic, got a phone call saying he would at last be leading the respected orchestral group — in six hours, that afternoon, with no time to rehearse. The sudden thrust into the spotlight transformed Bernstein into a national c…
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In this message, we look at 1 John 4:7-16 to learn the true definition of love.By Trey Van Camp
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#422 Grace Church: A Most Fashionable History
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Manhattan's Grace Church sits at a unique bend on Broadway and East 10th Street, making it seem that the historic house of worship is rising out of the street itself. But Grace is also at another important intersection -- where religion and high society greeted one another during the Gilded Age. Grace is one of the important Episcopal churches in A…
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Advent: Joy is the Motor that Keeps Things Going
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In this message, Pastor Trey examines Luke 1 & 2; Isaiah 8 &9 to learn what joy is and how we build more of it into our lives.By Trey Van Camp
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Christmas in Old New York: Holiday History
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This week we're highlighting an especially festive episode of the Gilded Gentleman Podcast, a show with double the holiday fun, tracing the history of Christmas and holiday celebrations over 19th-century New York City history. Licensed New York City tour guide and speaker Jeff Dobbins joins host Carl Raymond for a look at the city’s holiday traditi…
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In Luke 1, we learn the secret to hope is getting silent with God.By Trey Van Camp
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#421 Evacuation Day: Forgotten Holiday of the American Revolution
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For decades New Yorkers celebrated Evacuation Day every November 25, a holiday marking the 1783 departure of British forces from the city they had occupied for several years during the Revolutionary War. The events of that departure -- that evacuation -- inspired annual celebrations of patriotism, unity, and a bit of rowdiness. Evacuation Day was h…
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A Prayer of Faith WILL Heal? [James 5:13-20]
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In this message, we study James 5 and discover the meaning behind a "prayer of faith."By Trey Van Camp
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The Art of Leading Beyond the Pain & Into Victory [Pastor Billy VanCamp]
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In this conversation, Pastor Billy (my dad) discusses his journey through different decades of life and ministry. He reflects on his drive for success in his 30s, the challenges faced in his 40s, and the intentional planting of seeds for a meaningful future in his 50s. The discussion touches on the complexities of relationships in ministry, the imp…
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The Only Path to Greatness | James 5:7-12
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As James nears the end of his letter, one of the last encouragements he wants to give is a call to perseverance. In a world accustomed to anger, favoritism, slander, and ambition, it’s easy to feel the pressure to give up on the practices of Jesus, the truths of Jesus, or even on the way of Jesus altogether. But James reminds us that perseverance i…
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#420 Garbo Walks: Old Hollywood in New York
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Greta Garbo in New York! A story of freedom, glamour, and melancholy, set at the intersection of classic Hollywood and mid-century New York City. The biography of a legendary star who became the city's most famous 'celebrity sighting' for many decades while out on her regular, meandering walks. Garbo had once been Hollywood's biggest star, a screen…
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As humans, we’re all accustomed to greed. By default, we strive to hoard and live extravagantly in order to build up wealth for ourselves and our families. But according to James, this lifestyle comes at a cost. Not only do we feed our greed at the expense of the poor and oppressed, but we also bring rot to our own souls.The more we indulge, the le…
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The Official Gilded Age Podcast: S2 E1 with Lord Julian Fellowes
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Here's the first episode of HBO's The Official Gilded Age Podcast, hosted by Tom Meyers of the Bowery Boys Podcast and Alicia Malone of Turner Classic Movies (TCM), the official companion podcast for the HBO series The Gilded Age, streaming on Max. Each week Tom and Alicia will discuss what happened on screen and the real people, places and events …
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Rewind: The Gilded Age Mansions of Fifth Avenue
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So we don't know if you’ve heard, but New York City is an expensive place to live these days. So we thought it might be time to revisit the tale of the city’s most famous district of luxury — Fifth Avenue. For about a hundred years, this avenue was mostly residential -- but residences of the most extravagant kind. At the heart of New York’s Gilded …
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2 Signs You're Swayed by Satan | James 4:7-8
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When most of us think of resisting the devil, we might imagine something like demonic possession, exorcism, or a dramatic and visible display of blatant evil. But the devil’s influence in the world is more subtle than that. Throughout the scriptures, Satan’s primary tactic isn’t force, it’s deception.From the beginning of time, Satan has used lies …
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Renouncing the World & Its Empty Promises | James 4:4-5
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In James 4, we learn that on some level, followers of the way of Jesus are at odds with the world we live in. While we have a responsibility to love the created world, steward our lives to make it better, and love the people in it, it’s clear that the cultural air we live in is becoming more and more hostile to the way of Jesus. From sexuality and …
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A brand new batch of haunted houses and spooky stories, all from the gaslight era of New York City, the illuminating glow of the 19th century revealing the spirits of another world. Greg and Tom again dive into another batch of terrifying ghost stories, using actual newspaper reports and popular urban legends to reveal a different side to the city'…
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We live in a culture today that encourages us to satisfy any and all of our desires as we pursue our “true selves.” The only caveat the world gives us is that our desires shouldn’t hurt other people. Otherwise, those desires are good. But what if the people we really hurt in satisfying our desires is ourselves?In James 4, we learn that not all desi…
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Hijacking God's Mission with Selfish Ambition | James 3:13-18
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One of the greatest dangers plaguing the church today is also one of the oldest — selfish ambition. Since the church was first established, the people of God have experienced conflict, disagreement, and division, and often times these circumstances provide an opportunity for us to become bitter, envious, and boastful.But James 3 shows us what it lo…
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Theodore Roosevelt was both a New Yorker and an outdoorsman, a politician and a naturalist, a conservationist and a hunter. His connection with the natural world began at birth in his Manhattan brownstone home and ended with his death in Sagamore Hill. He killed thousands of animals over his lifetime as a hunter-naturalist, most notably one of the …
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It’s part of our human nature to play favorites. We often move towards, look up to, and speak highly of those who have wealth or achievements while also looking down to, ignoring, or withholding mercy from those who lack these things. Christians aren’t immune from this sin of favoritism, and it goes back to the very beginnings of the church. James …
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#417 Walking the East Village 1976-1996
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The rebirth of the East Village in the late 1970s and the flowering of a new and original New York subculture -- what Edmund White called "the Downtown Scene" -- arose from the shadow of urban devastation and was anchored by a community that reclaimed its own deteriorating neighborhood. In the last episode (Creating the East Village 1955-1975) this…
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James 1 confronts us with a painful reality: life will be hard. We’ll be persecuted, gut-punched, and exposed as we continue practicing the way of Jesus in our everyday lives. But James 1 also gives us a vision for the kind of people we can be if we endure these hardships with humility and patience. The church is at its best when we’re people who s…
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Before 1955 nobody used the phrase "East Village" to describe the historic northern portion of the Lower East Side, the New York tenement district with a rich German and Eastern European heritage. But when the Third Avenue El was torn down that year, those who were attracted to the culture of Greenwich Village -- with its coffeehouses, poets and ja…
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Rewind: The Rebellious History of Tompkins Square Park
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This episode on the history of Tompkins Square Park ties right into an all-new two-part episode coming in September, the first part coming at you next week. Tompkins Square Park is the heart and soul of the East Village. And it's also one of New York City's oldest parks! However this was not a park designed for the service of the upper classes in t…
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When most of us think of simplicity, we think of digital minimalism, materialism, and wealth. But few of us would consider the practice of simplicity as something that involves our speech and relationships. And yet, when we examine how often we use sarcasm, exaggeration, and flattery to manipulate people and get what we want, we might be surprised …
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Stroll the romantic, rambling paths of historic Central Park in this week's episode, turning back the clock to the 1860s and 70s, a time of children ice skating on The Lake, carriage rides through the Mall, and bewildering excursions through The Ramble. You’re all invited to walk along with Greg through the oldest portion of Central Park. Not only …
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As Americans our identities are often shaped by the quantity and quality of the stuff we own. Security, stability, and satisfaction are only possible when we buy and accumulate more wealth. And while we’re really after deep contentment, we falsely believe that the very joy we’re searching for is still on the other side of the next purchase. Cue our…
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A Call to Digital Simplicity (Simplicity E1)
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We live in the age of the attention economy. From social media ads and online shopping to streaming and news, our hearts and minds are often cluttered and rewired for discontentment. We live chasing accumulation, or what Jesus calls “the worries of this age, the deceitfulness of wealth, and the desires for other things.”And for most of us, this dis…
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#414 The Brooklyn Navy Yard and Vinegar Hill
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The tale of the Brooklyn Navy Yard is one of New York's true epic adventures, mirroring the course of American history via the ships manufactured here and the people employed to make them. The Navy Yard's origins within Wallabout Bay tie it to the birth of the United States itself, the spot where thousands of men and women were kept in prison ships…
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Grace Under Pressure Episodes 1-8: Binge Edition
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Written by Emily King Starring Alice King as Grace McMoon Tom Bozell (Wolfram, Jack Mahloff, Ted) Roger Casey (Louie and Carmen Corazon) Dorian DeMichele (Trudi, Mimi, Mrs. Gravlax) Blanca Franck (Art Customer, Norma, Rosita) Luis Carlos de la Lombana (Mr. Ramirez, Raimondo, Hector) George Sheffey (Announcer, McWeeney, Leo Fursnyder, Howard) Singer…
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Let the timer begin. Revelation 1, we looked at, at the beginning of summer, we talked about how there's, just based off that one chapter, there's three ways to interpret the rest of the letter. We learned that St. John is a theologian. What that means is when you read the book of Revelation, it's more important to read it Christologically, meaning…
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