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I search across the generations for the best thinking, stories, music, and visual masterworks that help our souls flourish through each phase of our life.
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Millennials and Zoomers (opens the original)
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New Florence reader,Would love to hear your views on this. There’s a good chance you have spent a lot more time with younger people than I have, and that your view is thus more valid than mine at this point. So please share your insights.I have a tentative, working hypothesis about Millennials and Zoomers. I want to test it out in coming months.My tentative, working hypothesis that I’d like to hear your response to. What strikes you as true and what doesn’t? And what am I missing?:Millennials, b
The Millennials’ Greatest Band (opens the original)
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New Florence reader,I’ve been thinking for a year and a half of writing a detailed appreciation of Marcus Mumford and Mumford & Sons. The folk-rock musicians — back in the years when there were four of them, and still now when there are three of them — have clearly established themselves, in my mind, as the indisputably best band from the generation born in the 1980s and 1990s, the Millennial Generation.But I’m out of time to write a long piece. Mumford & Sons is coming to my city, Albuquerque,
Heaven: 12 Musicians Bring Me Closest (opens the original)
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New Florence reader.My newest video is up on YouTube. In 22 and a half minutes, I celebrate the twelve musicians who bring me closest to Heaven.If you’re one of the three billion adults on this planet who believe we can live our next life — from our death on Earth to the remainder of eternity — in Heaven, I made this video for you.(While only three of the musicians are exclusively Christian musicians, the video will have special resonance for most Christians.)If not, I hope you still choose to g
Louis Armstrong’s Singular Achievement (opens the original)
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Far too many observers still view the drunk and desolate Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald as the epitome of the “Lost Generation” born from 1883 to 1901. But “lost” has always been an exaggeration – too severe a judgment and one that causes us to miss their achievements and their legacy. They weren’t the Lost Generation but the Jazz Generation. And it wasn’t Scotty and Zelda’s generation. Their most representative and exemplary figure in the 1920s — and well beyond — was someone else entirely. It was
What Happened When Germans Faced Anne Frank? (opens the original)
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New Florence reader,I’ve long been interested in how Germans transformed as a society after 1945 and have studied the era extensively, but I only recently discovered that this had happened. This is perhaps the most compelling example in human history of what happens when art reaches our conscience. And it was an important part of Germany’s transformation and healing. Since I’ve never seen it elsewhere, I decided to make a three-minute video about it.All my best,MikeWhen Germans Faced Anne Frank
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