A memorial in stained-glass at the United Nations is a tribute to the late Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905-1961, and the 15 U.N. staff members and U.N. peacekeepers who died with him. Their plane crashed while flying to a peace negotiation for the Congo Crisis in Northern Rhodesia. A U.N. Staff committee was formed to ask world-renowned Belorussian-born French Jewish artist Marc Chagall, 1887-1985, whose work Hammarskjöld had greatly admired, to create the memorial.
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Freedom of Speech is the first of Four Freedoms, a series of oil paintings by Norman Rockwell, inspired by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s 1941 State of the Union address. The painting was published in the Feb. 20, 1943, issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
There’s a lot of anger on social media these days — and on the cable news shows and in many other places. The blessed tie that binds those of us who follow Jesus is being severely tested. Incendiary rhetoric from all sides has made it almost impossible to have a civil conversation with Christian friends.
John Sumwalt is a retired pastor and the son of dairy farmers. He is the author of “Shining Moments: Visions of the Holy in Ordinary Lives.” Email johnsumwalt@gmail.com or call 414-339-0676 to reach him, or write to W172 N7735, #932, Menomonee Falls, WI 53051.
A golden statue of President Donald Trump raising his fist now sits at the Trump National Doral Miami golf course.
A memorial in stained-glass at the United Nations is a tribute to the late Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, 1905-1961, and the 15 U.N. staff members and U.N. peacekeepers who died with him. Their plane crashed while flying to a peace negotiation for the Congo Crisis in Northern Rhodesia. A U.N. Staff committee was formed to ask world-renowned Belorussian-born French Jewish artist Marc Chagall, 1887-1985, whose work Hammarskjöld had greatly admired, to create the memorial.
Freedom of Speech is the first of Four Freedoms, a series of oil paintings by Norman Rockwell, inspired by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt‘s 1941 State of the Union address. The painting was published in the Feb. 20, 1943, issue of The Saturday Evening Post.
