by Morning Reflections | Jan 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click herePhilosopher and cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett, who died last year at age 82, was one of the so-called Four Horsemen of the New Atheism.Along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 22, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereI love caves.I was in elementary school when I had my first chance to experience a real limestone cavern. I joined my family on a stroll through Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, and I was hooked for life.More than...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereOn a frigid night in January 1973, Senator John Stennis was mugged in Washington, D.C.He was accosted by two gun-wielding teenagers while walking between his car and the front door of his own house.After...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 20, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereMusic historians call it Stevie Wonder’s “classic period.”Pop music fans simply call it miraculous.During a four-year span (1972-1976), the Motown singer/composer, who had just turned 21, churned out five...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 17, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Hope is life’s extraordinary antidote for discouragement. That doesn’t mean that success always comes easily. Winston Churchill was once asked what most prepared him to sustain his lonely fight against...
by Morning Reflections | Jan 16, 2025 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereFor generations of toymakers, the Holy Grail was a doll which could talk.Thomas Edison gave it his best shot. During the late 1800s he planted actual phonograph records inside dolls. But the technology...
