by Morning Reflections | Jan 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa displays the most beguiling smile in the history of painting. For that matter, hers may be the most famous smile in human history. Period. Mysteries...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. If you’re looking for drama and emotion, you wouldn’t normally hang out at a convention of Bible scholars. But the meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature at San Antonio in 2016 produced a moment that those...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 6, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. “I think this is the neatest gift you have ever given me.” My wife spoke those words to me about 25 years ago on Christmas Day. While every husband yearns to hear such praise, what Mary Sue had just unwrapped was...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 5, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here.When most people think of Mary Poppins, they smile.They picture the warm-hearted and charming Julie Andrews starring in the Disney adaptation of P.L. Travers’ famous children’s book. The English nanny,...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 4, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. “A picture is worth a thousand words,” according to the old adage. If that’s so, it’s difficult to calculate how many words it would take to express the worth of one of the most extraordinary...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 3, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here.“Hope is good thing, maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies” (Andy, wrongfully imprisoned in The Shawshank Redemption).“Let me tell you something, my friend. Hope is a dangerous...
