by Morning Reflections | May 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereIt’s hard to overstate the eagerness of many underage men to join America’s armed forces in World War II.Calvin Graham was one of them. In August 1942 he walked into a recruiting station in Fort...
by Morning Reflections | May 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereWho could have imagined that followers of Jesus would owe a debt of gratitude to Friederick Nietzsche?That particular German philosopher, after all, has long been regarded as one of history’s...
by Morning Reflections | May 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereLike a lot of people, Cliff Edwards wanted to hit the big time.Unlike most people, he actually succeeded. In 1909, Edwards dropped out of school in Hannibal, Missouri – he was 14 years old at the time –...
by Morning Reflections | May 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereHow did hurricanes get their names?It’s a long and interesting story.As Eric Jay Dolin reports in his book A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes, there were no standard naming...
by Morning Reflections | May 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereInvictus is one of history’s most enduring expressions of self-reliance.It came from the pen of William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), a highly regarded poet and literary critic during Britain’s Victorian...
by Morning Reflections | May 19, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here“I will tell you my secret: I have doubts.”Those are the opening words of John Ortberg’s 2008 book Faith and Doubt.As a general rule, we applaud individuals for such transparency. A confession of doubt...
