by Morning Reflections | Sep 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The number 40 turns up in some of the most interesting and unexpected places. Forty is the number of hours in the traditional American workweek – although the pandemic might have changed...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 19, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In the year 2000, a controversy of biblical proportions suddenly became a lead news item across America. Roy Moore, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the state of Alabama, authorized the installation...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 18, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here When Dr. Francis Collins was nominated in 2009 to head the National Institutes of Health, the USA’s largest scientific organization, not everyone was happy. One scientist asserted that Collins suffers from...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
A few minutes after I hit Send on yesterday’s reflection – the one concerning sports mascots, which included the point that no major school’s team is represented by sheep – I myself was taken to school by several readers. The “Dirtbags” are the mascot of Cal State...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here Universities and professional sports franchises are famous for picking tough-sounding nicknames for their football teams. That’s why this fall the Wolverines, Badgers, Jaguars, Tigers, Panthers,...
