by Morning Reflections | May 3, 2022 | Uncategorized
One of the great things about owning a barn in the Midwest is that every spring and summer it becomes a home for barn swallows. These strikingly beautiful visitors are endowed with navy blue backs, cream-colored undersides, a dab of orange under the beak, and...
by Morning Reflections | May 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
During World War II, America’s Office of Strategic Services – the precursor to the CIA – was assigned the task of devising subversive ways to help defeat Japan. Some of the OSS’s initiatives could best be described as non-traditional. More than two...
by Morning Reflections | Apr 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
During the 1930s, the Soviet Union took aggressive steps to diminish the influence of the Russian Orthodox Church. As the dictator of a militantly atheistic regime, Josef Stalin ordered the execution of church leaders or their exile to Siberia. Priests were...
by Morning Reflections | Apr 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
“I’m tired of running this damn church.” If you’re a pastor who desperately wants to get the attention of your elders, try using a turn of phrase they aren’t expecting. That’s what Eugene Peterson did about 10 years into his efforts to launch a new congregation in...
by Morning Reflections | Apr 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
Lunch hour at school. High noon. For many kids it’s the loneliest hour of the day. Lunch hour is when you find out if you have friends. And everybody else finds out if you have friends, too. In the cruel subculture of most schools,...
