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Between the One Year Bible and an Old Testament class I'm attending this year I'm hearing quite a few stories multiple times in relatively short order. And when you get to know them better they start to sink in, make more sense, the connections become more apparent. Last week in class we went through the beginning of 1 Samuel, with the birth of ancient Israel's last judge and first major prophet, his call etc. The high priest at the time was a man named Eli, who was righteous

In the past I've liked to write about bits of culture that have a profound effect on the kids, especially when there are songs involved. It's been a little while, though, since I've added anything to the KidsStuff tag. Well, this summer our kids got obsessed with the soundtrack to the Angel Studios animated film David, which came out last year. They only saw the movie twice, both within a week I believe (my mom has the required subscription and we do not), but the requests to

Most years around Easter as a kid I'd see at least a chunk of the 1956 epic The Ten Commandments, as it was always on TV. I had assumed this longtime tradition must've ceased at some point, but apparently even in the year of our Lord 2026 it was on ABC, as it has every year going back to 1973, the night before Easter Sunday. The long and the short of why we, as Christians, are a fan of this timing is the connection between Passover (portrayed in the film during the Exodus) an

This time of year, in the lead-up to Easter (aka Lent), I always seem to hear about The Prince of Egypt. I'd never seen the 1998 Dreamworks animated film but considering the praise coming from people I know to be Jewish and Christian it appeared to be worth assessing. So on Easter Sunday we bought it on Amazon and watched it with our son. If you don't know, the biblical story of Moses and the Exodus does have a pretty big connection to Easter. The last and most intense of the