Signs of the Times • 4 September 2020 • No. 206
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Signs of the Times • 28 August 2020 • No. 205
¶ Processional. Northwest Tap Connection: #Blacklivesmatter
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Signs of the Times • 18 August 2020 • No. 204
Special issue on
THE US POSTAL SERVICE
AND THE STRUGGLE FOR DEMOCRACY
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Signs of the Times • 13 December 2019 • No. 203
¶ Processional. This young drummer, Silas, is a member of Jesus the Redeemer Church in Kapenguria, Kenya, accompanying a praise song, “Sing With Joy, Jehovah Has Given Us Eternal Life.” (Thanks Boaz.)
Every year NASA produces a Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar. Pictured above: Spirals of dust swirl across trillions of kilometers of interstellar space as an expanding halo of light around a distant star, named V838 Monocerotis illuminates the giant cloud. The glow comes from the red supergiant star at the middle of the image, which gave off a flashbulb-like pulse of light, This image shows the progress the light-pulse had made after two years of traveling away from the star in all directions, imaged by Hubble on February 8, 2004. V838 Monocerotis is located about 20,000 light-years away from Earth in the direction of the constellation Monoceros, at the outer edge of our Milky Way galaxy.
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Signs of the Times • 16 October 2019 • No. 202
¶ Processional. “The Lord’s Prayer” in Kurdish.