by Morning Reflections | Jan 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
One of the most significant calls to social transformation in American history sprang from a mood of deep frustration. It was also written in a jail cell. Martin Luther King, Jr., a young Baptist pastor from Atlanta, had come to Birmingham, Alabama in April...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
A few years ago, as the workplace pastor for a faith-friendly healthcare organization, I visited one of the office work teams.I was holding something in my left hand, which was tightly closed. “So what do you think I’m holding right now? Anybody want to...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
We’re not even two weeks into the new year and chronically busy Americans are already becoming anxious.Is there going to be enough time to accomplish what we so recently resolved to make happen in 2022? One of the great human obsessions of the modern age is to...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
Beef: It’s What’s for Dinner.That memorable 1992 commercial slogan – which promoted “beef as a part of a healthy diet” – is still recognized by more than 80% of Americans.If you think that controversies concerning the eating of red meat are only a few decades old,...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Eleven years ago, a 25-year-old Oklahoma resident named Kristi Loyall noticed that her right pinky toe kept going numb. During a doctor’s visit she was dismayed to learn that she had a rare soft tissue tumor called an epithelioid sarcoma. Her heart sank...