by Morning Reflections | Aug 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
I have never learned to drive a standard transmission car.Since futurists keep insisting that the age of autonomous (“driverless”) vehicles is just around the corner, the window to address this gap in my life is rapidly closing.My associations with standard...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 18, 2021 | Uncategorized
In the Bible’s four biographies of Jesus – the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John – exactly one person declines his invitation to “follow me.”What could possibly be so powerful or insidious that it would compel someone to walk away from the chance of a...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 17, 2021 | Uncategorized
“We have fallen upon evil times, and the world has waxed very old and wicked. Politics are very corrupt. Children are no longer respectful to their parents.”Those despairing words weren’t posted for the first time on Facebook last week. Archeologists...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 16, 2021 | Uncategorized
Earlier this month the world lost an incomparable storyteller.Walter Wangerin Jr., who had been a professor at Valparaiso University in Indiana since 1991, was the author of more than 30 novels. He also wrote numerous children’s stories, essays and plays, not to...
by Morning Reflections | Aug 13, 2021 | Uncategorized
Throughout the 1950s Mahalia Jackson, the Queen of Gospel, sang to packed-out church sanctuaries and public auditoriums.Numerous agents and producers beckoned her to do what is now called crossing over: She ought to go secular. She could be big. She...
