by Morning Reflections | Jul 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
If a single individual can be credited with the founding of modern American surgery, William Halsted should be mentioned first. During the late 1800s Halsted was one of the “Big Four” physicians who helped launch Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. A...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 28, 2022 | Uncategorized
The odds are good that at some point in your life you’ve had the chance to play a revolutionary musical instrument called a soft-loud. These days we usually call it a piano. For the better part of three centuries (the early 1500s through the...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 27, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s summertime, the season for hot dogs. There have always been two great mysteries surrounding the quintessential American snack: What are they really made of? And who actually invented them? The first mystery has become the stuff of urban legend – as in, why...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
In 1979, the Charlie Daniels Band proved that a song about fiddles could become a national hit.The Devil Went Down to Georgia is the account of an epic fiddle-playing contest between Satan and a young man named Johnny. Who is the ultimate virtuoso? The stakes are...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 25, 2022 | Uncategorized
When author and pastor Rob Bell was a teenager, he and his family attended a church service in a town they were visiting. At the end of the service, they experienced a drama that is played out in a number of conservative congregations. The pastor invited...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 22, 2022 | Uncategorized
“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do you, punk?”(Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry) San Francisco’s famously unhinged police inspector isn’t typically a source of theological insight. But his quotable quote spotlights our culture’s...
