A Jewish person’s perspective Growing up as a Jewish youth, I was not exposed to Christmas media in copious amounts. We didn’t have a Christmas tree. We only had a Menorah, we only had our dreidels and our prayers and I could only watch the seasonal stop motion Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer movie and Jack Frost live action films and the loveable Frosty the Snowman short from 1969. We never had those flickering lights on our house for all to... Read more
TruPlay’s Safe Online Gaming for Children TruPlay (founded in 2019 and launched in 2023) has innovative and creative ideas to get children to engage in Biblical principles utilizing an highly popular platform: online gaming. I had first become acquainted with the up and coming Christian gaming company from the Fox News interview featuring Brent Dusing and Dean Cain. The innate sense of passion for creating a safe online platform for children to engage in biblical scripture was apparent, and I... Read more
Analyzing Religious Art Series: A Deeper Exploration In this ongoing series for An Exhibition Of Art History, I am going to be analyzing famous works of religious art. The focus will be religious symbolism, the history of the piece, biblical history and reference and my personal interpretation of the piece. I hope you enjoy this series as it will take on a wide variety of artistic expressions and spiritual avenues. Each article will represent one piece to keep a clean... Read more
Analyzing Religious Art Series: A Deeper Exploration In this ongoing series for An Exhibition Of Art History, I am going to be analyzing famous works of religious art. The focus will be religious symbolism, the history of the piece, biblical history and reference and my personal interpretation of the piece. I hope you enjoy this series as it will take on a wide variety of artistic expressions and spiritual avenues. Each article will represent one piece to keep a clean... Read more
Biblical stories in the media The first time I had encountered a TV show or piece of media representing a biblical story or part of a scripture was when I had started babysitting as a young teenager. I had been watching these two young twin girls across the street from my house and they watched many different toddler/children TV shows and movies, like Thomas the Train. One that struck out at me in a particular way was Veggie Tales. The... Read more
Bullying and how a worship song brought two unlikely people together Growing up in the farm-filled Midwest, Missouri is generally considered a conservative and quiet place to live. As a budding teenager trying to figure out their identity, in that respect, it is hard to keep that balance of a conservative nature. Especially by expressing your identity in a way that is considered as blatant as a bright peacock standing in a room full of white doves, you might as... Read more
Martha Graham: the spiritual mystique of a prolific dancer that recreated the pitfall feeling of grief in trembles I was first introduced to the art of this intensely magnificent dancer, Martha Graham, from a American animated TV series created by Rebecca Sugar (Cartoon Network) called Steven Universe. The animated show, although made for children and young adults, dealt with heavy subjects such as anger, identity, fear, trauma, helplessness and grief. The character of Blue Diamond truly enveloped the latter emotion... Read more
Analyzing Religious Art Series: A Deeper Exploration In this ongoing series for An Exhibition Of Art History, I am going to be analyzing famous works of religious art. The focus will be religious symbolism, the history of the piece, biblical history and reference and my personal interpretation of the piece. I hope you enjoy this series as it will take on a wide variety of artistic expressions and spiritual avenues. Each article will represent one piece to keep a clean... Read more
Analyzing Religious Art Series: A Deeper Exploration In this ongoing series for An Exhibition Of Art History, I am going to be analyzing famous works of religious art. The focus will be religious symbolism, the history of the piece, biblical history and reference and my personal interpretation of the piece. I hope you enjoy this series as it will take on a wide variety of artistic expressions and spiritual avenues. Each article will represent one piece to keep a clean... Read more
Analyzing Religious Art Series: A Deeper Exploration In this series for An Exhibition Of Art History, I am going to be analyzing famous works of religious art. The focus will be religious symbolism, the history of the piece, biblical history and reference and my personal interpretation of the piece. I hope you enjoy this series as it will take on a wide variety of artistic expressions and spiritual avenues. Each article will represent one piece to keep a clean and... Read more
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