by Morning Reflections | Feb 23, 2022 | Uncategorized
Across the spectrum of global spirituality, is there anything unique to the Christian faith? Those attending a British conference on comparative religions in the middle of the last century debated that very question. When all is said and done, is there anything...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
Dee Dee Kuruneru pointed to the grayish line permanently imprinted eight feet up the wall of his nearly demolished seaside house. “That’s how high the water was,” he said. “It stayed there for ten minutes.” That extraordinary watermark was the legacy of the tsunami...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Zachary Taylor never voted in a U.S. presidential election until he was 64 years old. That’s when the career military officer cast a ballot for himself in the 1848 election that sent him to the White House as America’s 12th chief executive. But the record for a...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 18, 2022 | Uncategorized
It is difficult to overstate how unpleasant it was to live in a city in the ancient Mediterranean world. As historian Rodney Stark documents in his book The Triumph of Christianity, the earliest generations of Jesus’ followers tended to live and serve in urban...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 17, 2022 | Uncategorized
A few years ago, Laura Lee of The Futurist magazine catalogued some of the worst expert predictions in history. They included the following:“Law will be simplified [over the next century]. Lawyers will have diminished, and their fees will have been vastly...
