by Morning Reflections | Jul 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
When author and pastor Rob Bell was a teenager, he and his family attended a church service in a town they were visiting. At the end of the service, they experienced a drama that is played out in a number of conservative congregations. The pastor invited...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do you, punk?”(Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry) San Francisco’s famously unhinged police inspector isn’t typically a source of theological insight. But his quotable quote spotlights our culture’s...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Don’t be an idiot. Be polite. If those two sentences don’t appear to be natural go-togethers, it’s because we’ve lost track of the origin of a pair of words that were once intimately related. Let’s start with the Greek word idiotes (id-ee-OH-tays). In ancient times...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
In the vast majority of human languages, nouns and verbs have all the fun. Those forms of speech are usually at the center of the action when it comes to communication.Prepositions, however, aren’t far behind. That’s because they express relationships...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Venice Academy of Arts Everyone agreed that it was a wonderful painting – Paolo Veronese’s ginormous depiction of Jesus and his disciples at the Last Supper. But was it really a religious painting? Church authorities in Venice in 1573 were...
