Take the Plunge

Take the Plunge

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Here’s a riddle: Fifteen turtles are sunning themselves on an old log. Six of them decide to jump into the water. So how many turtles are still sunning themselves on the...

Good Disasters

  To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here What swept the dinosaurs from the face of the Earth? That question has puzzled paleontologists for a very long time.  This year marks the 200th anniversary of the arrival of every school child’s...
Looking Ahead to 2024

Looking Ahead to 2024

Words cannot express what a privilege it has been to be part of your mornings the past twelve months. As in past years, I’m going to step back this week and take a five-day “Sabbath rest.” Morning reflections will return next Tuesday, January...
You Belong to Me

You Belong to Me

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereStephanie Fast never learned the date of her birth.  To this day she doesn’t know the identity of her parents.   She does know that she was the child of a Korean mother and an Anglo father, one of...
No Frills

No Frills

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A Festivus for the rest of us!If your heart isn’t stirred by that passionate cry, and if the aluminum pole pictured here makes no sense, you’re probably not a Seinfeld buff.In...