What if the most important thing you give your family isn’t comfort or success, but a name they can carry with pride? We dive into a gripping real-life story from Chicago’s past—Easy Eddie, the high-powered lawyer who protected Al Capone—only to watch him choose truth over safety for the sake of his son’s future. That turning point reframes the question we all face: where does a harmless indulgence end and a soul-shaping compromise begin? The culture often insists that truth is flexible and r...
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What if the most important thing you give your family isn’t comfort or success, but a name they can carry with pride? We dive into a gripping real-life story from Chicago’s past—Easy Eddie, the high-powered lawyer who protected Al Capone—only to watch him choose truth over safety for the sake of his son’s future. That turning point reframes the question we all face: where does a harmless indulgence end and a soul-shaping compromise begin? The culture often insists that truth is flexible and r...
How A Christmas Carol Sparked Radio History And Challenged Slavery
Starting Right
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How A Christmas Carol Sparked Radio History And Challenged Slavery
A single carol carried poetry into pulpits, courage into public life, and music into the air for the first time. We follow the unlikely journey of O Holy Night from an 1847 commission in France to a midnight mass debut, where a poet who wasn’t especially devout and a composer of Jewish heritage created a hymn that felt both intimate and immense. Its next chapter belongs to John Sullivan Dwight, the translator who championed the third verse’s fierce moral vision—love as law, peace as gospel, c...
Starting Right
What if the most important thing you give your family isn’t comfort or success, but a name they can carry with pride? We dive into a gripping real-life story from Chicago’s past—Easy Eddie, the high-powered lawyer who protected Al Capone—only to watch him choose truth over safety for the sake of his son’s future. That turning point reframes the question we all face: where does a harmless indulgence end and a soul-shaping compromise begin? The culture often insists that truth is flexible and r...
