Living on the Fault Line

Living on the Fault Line

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. There’s something about the earth’s most dramatic geological events – earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis – that make people want to fire God. A few weeks after the December 2004 earthquake that sent...
Here Comes the Judge

Here Comes the Judge

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Author and business executive Stephen R. Covey recounted a Sunday morning subway ride he took years ago in New York City. “People were sitting quietly – some reading newspapers, some lost in...
Lifting Burdens

Lifting Burdens

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Sometimes a small group with a small amount of money can make a very big difference.  John Jackman is the pastor of Trinity Moravian Church, a congregation of about 75-80 people in a ramshackle...
Speak Up

Speak Up

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. When Adolph Hitler rose to power in the 1920s and 30s, Germany was thought to have one of the most Christianized cultures on earth. So where was the Church as the Nazis began their genocidal purges...
Roots

Roots

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. The Bavarian village of Herzogenaurach is known as “the town of bent necks,” all because a pair of brothers couldn’t figure out how to get along with each other. Their quarrel not only divided an...