“Well-behaved women seldom make history” is not Marilyn Monroe. Laurel Thatcher Ulrich wrote it in 1976 – and the half of her sentence everyone drops flips it.
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Mother’s Day Christian Gifts for a Grieving Mom: What Jesus Gave His Mother
Mother’s Day Christian gifts for a grieving mom: what to give, what to write, and the detail in John 19 that shows what she actually needs.
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O Come, O Come, Emmanuel: Lyrics, Meaning, and the Secret Spelled Out in Its Verses
Most Christmas carols celebrate a birth that has already happened. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel does not. Every verse asks for something that has not arrived yet, and even the...
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Battle Hymn of the Republic: Lyrics, Meaning, and the Song It Replaced
Before it was a hymn, the tune was a soldiers' song about a dead man: John Brown's body lies a-mouldering in the grave. This page has the lyrics Julia Ward...
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Joshua 1:9 Meaning: God Said It Three Times in a Row
Joshua 1:9 meaning: God gives the charge three times in one short speech, and the only one marked “very” is about keeping a book, not about the battle.
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Psalm 91:1 Meaning: The Promise Is About Nightfall
Psalm 91:1 meaning: the Hebrew uses two different verbs. One means to settle in for good, the other means to spend the night. The promise lands after dark.
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Jesus Loves Me: Lyrics, Meaning, and the Novel It Was Written For
Most people learn Jesus Loves Me before they can read, and assume it was written for a Sunday school. It was written for a novel. In the story a young...
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“Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken” Isn’t Wilde
No evidence Oscar Wilde said “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” The earliest copy in print is from 1999 – and what he did write is better.
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Feeling Unappreciated at Home? Why Resentment Builds
You wiped the table again. You noticed the crumbs because you are the one who always notices the crumbs, and you wiped them, and nobody looked up. It is a...
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Is “Good Things Come to Those Who Wait” in the Bible?
No – “good things come to those who wait” is not in the Bible. It is a 16th-century French proverb, and here is what Scripture actually promises the person who is waiting.