A Difficult  Spell

A Difficult Spell

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereEvery spring the month of May brings us not only the Greatest Spectacle in Racing – the Indianapolis “500” – but the Greatest Spectacle in Spelling, also known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee.This year...
Wounded Healers

Wounded Healers

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereAmerican playwright Thornton Wilder wrote a one-act play about a miracle that doesn’t take place.The Angel That Troubled the Waters debuted in 1928. It’s based on John chapter five, where the Gospel...
What Time Is It?

What Time Is It?

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereIt was the first truly nationwide media event. Americans waited breathlessly on May 10, 1869, to receive word by telegraph that the final spike had been driven into the transcontinental railroad,...
Sacked

Sacked

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereOrganized football is not part of my past.It’s definitely not part of my present or future, either.   But that hasn’t kept me off the gridiron.For a number of years our extended family pursued a...
Coincidences

Coincidences

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereIn director M. Night Shyamalan’s 2002 movie Signs, Mel Gibson plays Graham Hess, a man who used to believe in God.In fact, he used to be an Episcopal priest.But a seemingly random and meaningless...