by Morning Reflections | Oct 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
It’s possible that Rehoboam, the fourth king of ancient Israel, never saw it coming. Who knew that the outcome of his entire reign would come down to one defining moment?Rehoboam came to the throne upon the death of his father Solomon. As told in I Kings...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
Philip Yancey’s bestselling books almost always gravitate toward two subjects: suffering and grace.His new memoir, Where the Light Fell – a harrowing account of his upbringing in the fundamentalist subculture of the American South – reveals why those two themes...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
Edgar Allan Poe didn’t invent scary stories and melancholy poems.But his brooding works have made him, with the possible exception of Mark Twain, the most widely recognized literary figure in American history. Everything he wrote was influenced by the tragedy of...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 15, 2021 | Uncategorized
On a summer day in 1986, Lauren Schroff walked up to the intersection of 56th and Broadway in midtown Manhattan.She was a single, 35-year-old marketing exec who was helping fuel USA Today’s meteoric rise to “the nation’s newspaper.”As she prepared to cross the street...
by Morning Reflections | Oct 14, 2021 | Uncategorized
After 18 months of saturation news coverage of the pandemic, the televised images have become predictable.We see COVID patients lying in ICU beds. Exhausted nurses. Vials of vaccine rolling off pharmaceutical assembly lines. Running tallies of the...
