by Morning Reflections | Dec 16, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereOne of the world’s most beloved Christmas songs sprang from one of the world’s closest calls to nuclear oblivion.For 13 days in October 1962, the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 13, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThe Episcopal vicar Phillips Brooks was moved by his visit to the village of Bethlehem in 1865 – the same year America’s Civil War finally ground to a halt.Standing in the traditional Field of the...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 12, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThe Horse and His Boy, the fifth book in C.S. Lewis’ children series called The Chronicles of Narnia, tells the story of a boy named Shasta.He doesn’t know it, but he is the twin son of a Narnian...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereOne of the world’s most popular Christmas songs actually started out as a She Done Me Wrong song.O Tannenbaum (or O Christmas Tree, as it is often sung in America) was written in 1824 by German...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 10, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereHow can we know what something is worth?Two recent auctions have challenged our capacity to answer that question.Last month, cryptocurrency businessman Justin Sun outbid six rivals at a Sotheby’s auction to...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereDuring the heart of the Depression, American folklorist John Jacob Niles was sampling original music of Appalachian hill folk.While passing through the rustic town of Murphy, North Carolina, in July 1933,...
