God’s Strange Gift

God’s Strange Gift

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereFrances Jane Crosby, who was born in New York in 1820, developed a minor eye inflammation when she was six weeks old. Although there have been differing accounts of a local doctor’s efforts to...
God is Nigh

God is Nigh

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereDuring the summer of 1862, while the Civil War was raging between North and South, Union General Daniel Butterfield was searching for a new way to signal “lights out” at the end of the...
No Accident

No Accident

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereIndianapolis International Airport is situated far enough outside the urban sprawl of the Hoosier capital that incoming jets fly right over local agricultural fields.Imagine that I am on a late summer...
Get Into the Game

Get Into the Game

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereA lot of rock stars try to be cool and rebellious.Not many aspire to forge partnerships with business, religious, and political leaders in order to eradicate AIDS, poverty, and malaria in...
Waiting

Waiting

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereTalk about a crazy job assignment.In 1835, a pair of pharmacists from the English town of Worcester were asked to recreate a fish sauce that a local dignitary said he had enjoyed on a visit to India.Lord...