by Morning Reflections | Jan 12, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. On April 11, 2009, Susan Boyle appeared as contestant #43212 on Britain’s Got Talent. Expectations were low. She was a frumpy-looking, 47-year-old single woman from Scotland who had grown up with eight siblings...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 11, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. “Metaphysics” is such a cool word. It connotes a journey into life’s most interesting and important questions: What is the nature of reality, and why is there anything here at all? When we consider the origin of...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa displays the most beguiling smile in the history of painting. For that matter, hers may be the most famous smile in human history. Period. Mysteries...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. If you’re looking for drama and emotion, you wouldn’t normally hang out at a convention of Bible scholars. But the meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature at San Antonio in 2016 produced a moment that those...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. “I think this is the neatest gift you have ever given me.” My wife spoke those words to me about 25 years ago on Christmas Day. While every husband yearns to hear such praise, what Mary Sue had just unwrapped was...
