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...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 16, 2022 | Uncategorized
If you scan the horizon of professional sports in America, it’s impossible to miss the African American superstars. Who’s the greatest basketball player of all time? The current contenders are Michael Jordan and LeBron James, but MJ himself believes no one...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
During the Golden Age of fossil hunting in the 19th century, almost all of the discoveries in the field were made by amateurs. Most of them were well-educated, upper-class males.But the greatest amateur fossil hunter of all time was quite possibly an...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 14, 2022 | Uncategorized
What could be more appropriate on Valentine’s Day than a kiss?That could be understood in several different ways, of course. It’s a given that millions of people will be enjoying at least one Hershey’s Kiss today. Those 23-calorie guilty pleasures have been...
