by Morning Reflections | Feb 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Shrove Tuesday is the holy day that got away. During the Middle Ages, it was a solemn day of preparation. On the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday – the traditional beginning of the season of...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 20, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. The first-ever presidential inauguration took place on April 30, 1789, in New York City. On that date, Washington D.C. – the nation’s capital that would ultimately be named for the first president – was still...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 17, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. When you think of an archeologist painstakingly excavating an ancient site, what kinds of objects do you picture coming into view? Coins, pottery, inscriptions, and shards of bone are valued finds. But one of the...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 16, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. There’s often a big difference between what other people say and what we hear. Not to mention the difference between what we think we hear and what we actually understand. Author and pastor Brian J. Dodd remembers...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 15, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. The memory of a visit to a rocky English shoreline inspired one of the 19th century’s most famous poems. In Dover Beach, published in 1867, the British poet Matthew Arnold declares that belief in...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 14, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here.Every year on Valentine’s Day, the age-old question seems to feel a bit more urgent: Does anybody out there really love me?According to Nancy Jo Sales’ harrowing book, American Girls: Social Media and...
