by Morning Reflections | May 6, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereIt was the first truly nationwide media event. Americans waited breathlessly on May 10, 1869, to receive word by telegraph that the final spike had been driven into the transcontinental railroad,...
by Morning Reflections | May 3, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereOrganized football is not part of my past.It’s definitely not part of my present or future, either. But that hasn’t kept me off the gridiron.For a number of years our extended family pursued a...
by Morning Reflections | May 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereIn director M. Night Shyamalan’s 2002 movie Signs, Mel Gibson plays Graham Hess, a man who used to believe in God.In fact, he used to be an Episcopal priest.But a seemingly random and meaningless...
by Morning Reflections | May 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereIt seems hard to believe, but just 200 years ago every respectable scientist believed that spoiled meat, all by itself, could generate maggots. The idea that non-living substances automatically...
by Morning Reflections | Apr 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereAccording to historian Paul Johnson, the first time laughter is mentioned in human literature comes from the book of Genesis. It rolls out of the mouths of a couple of senior citizens:...
by Morning Reflections | Apr 26, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereAt every level of basketball, Stacey King was a winner. As a power forward for the Oklahoma Sooners, he became a consensus first team All-American and The Sporting News Player of the Year in 1989....
