Failure Isn’t Final

Failure Isn’t Final

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereIn an episode of the TV series Boston Legal, Tom Selleck’s fiancé struggles with fits of uncontrolled laughter.The only way to break the spell is to remind her of a tragedy. Selleck speaks just two words:...
Not About Me

Not About Me

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereMy life is not actually about me.In my head and in my heart, I know that’s true.The problem, of course, is that I really have a hard time choosing to live as if that were true.I am constantly thinking about...
More Than Mediocrity

More Than Mediocrity

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereWhen challenged to name an influential president, most Americans gravitate to those four granite heads on Mount Rushmore.Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Teddy Roosevelt, after all, were undeniably key...
No Spectators

No Spectators

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThere has never been a shortage of utopian dreamers – individuals who believe they hold the key to humanity’s ultimate happiness.One of them was Alexander Scriabin, a Russian musician who became convinced...
A Fierce Devotion

A Fierce Devotion

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereAnne Rice stunned the literary world in 1998 when she announced she had become a Christian.As a self-described “pessimistic atheist” and the author of the supernatural thriller Interview With the Vampire...
Chewing on the Word

Chewing on the Word

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereWho’s the most dominant American individual in the history of the Summer Olympics?Sportscaster Mike Greenberg teases that question in Got Your Answers, a book that endeavors to settle “the top 100 greatest...