Christ is alive! Let Christians sing. The cross stands empty to the sky. Let streets and homes with praises ring. Love, drowned in death, shall never die! This hymn is one of many beautiful songs that speak to us as we speak to God in this Easter season. How many Christians sang this song of joyous worship after walking through the wilderness of Lent? Did you sing it with your congregation? Hum it as you walked your dog? ~~~ Women and men, in age and youth, can feel the Spiri

“See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” Isaiah 43:19 The Orpheum opened in Duluth, Minnesota in 1910 as a vaudeville house. In 1941, it changed with the times and became a movie theater, renamed the NorShor. Then, it slowly fell into irrelevance and disrepair. For some, the building seemed to be at the end of its life, ready to be buried and destroyed. For others, including th