Dimples

Dimples

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Did you hear the one about the golfer describing his pastor?  “His tee shots are a lot like his sermons: long, to the right, and always near a hazard.” Speaking of the little white balls that just provided...
Truth Tellers

Truth Tellers

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Pablo Picasso’s 1937 mural Guernica is one of the most emotionally disturbing paintings of all time. It is enormous, standing about 12 feet tall and stretching 25 feet side to side. It is stark, featuring...
Our Daily Bread

Our Daily Bread

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “How are you doing?”“Just fine, thank you.” That script, which most of us have followed more times than we can count, might constitute the world’s shortest conversation. But it hardly qualifies as a...
Ironically Speaking

Ironically Speaking

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Why is this picture such a hoot? It’s a wonderful example of irony. Irony is a form of humor that’s somewhat hard to define. Technically, it’s “a contradiction between what a statement or situation is...
The Tongue of the Wise

The Tongue of the Wise

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The funeral of America’s seventh president turned out to be a surprisingly memorable event. Andrew Jackson died on June 8, 1845, at the Hermitage, his private residence outside Nashville, Tennessee....
Doing Our Homework

Doing Our Homework

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Four minutes. They were the four longest minutes of Stanislav Petrov’s life. They also represented, arguably, the closest our world has ever come to nuclear catastrophe. On September 26, 1983, Petrov – a...