by Morning Reflections | Jul 13, 2022 | Uncategorized
For more than 4,000 years, on three different continents, many of the smartest people in the world pursued a dream. They yearned to turn ordinary junk into treasure. It was the dream of alchemy. Through a combination of research, magic, and laboratory...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 12, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s back. It’s time for America’s annual mid-summer obsession with sharks. NatGeo’s Sharkfest, a four-week celebration of the fearsome eating machines, kicked off two nights ago. The Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, which begins on July 24,...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
For most of my life I have rooted against China. I was born the same year the Chinese announced they had become members of the exclusive club of nations who can deploy nuclear weapons. When I was a teenager, global sales of Mao Zedong’s Little Red...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 8, 2022 | Uncategorized
When digital technology arrived in church offices towards the end of the 20th century, it launched a timesaving revolution with regard to mundane tasks like bulletin preparation. It also provided some genuinely funny moments. One of them happened at a church that...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
“Blessed to be a blessing.” That turn of phrase never actually appears on the pages of Scripture. But it’s an accurate summation of God’s ongoing plan to rescue our broken world. God will bless a particular individual, who will in turn become the conduit of God’s...
by Morning Reflections | Jul 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Philosopher J.P. Moreland remembers the time he was invited to speak at a gathering on the validity of faith. A friend gave him fair warning. One of the guests, a man who was finishing up his Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins, was an outspoken skeptic of all things...
