To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Wayne Cordeiro, founding pastor of the New Hope Christian Fellowship in Honolulu, was once invited to compete in a traditional Hawaiian canoe race. The wa’a is a large, ocean-going canoe that features a balancing arm and seats six paddlers. As Cordeiro puts it, “Although navigating one of these ancient canoes may look… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Life is tough enough without making mountains out of mole hills. In her book Fierce Conversations, corporate trainer Susan Scott recalls the family job assignment given to her brother Sam. Every Saturday during his teen years, Sam awoke to the task of tackling the Mole Problem. “Our yard was mole central,” she writes. … Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Saturday Night Live, the one-of-a-kind comedy show that launched its 48th season earlier this month, has aired more than 10,000 sketches. Critics and fans agree that if there’s ever an authoritative Top 10 list of the best skits, it will have to include the April 8, 2000, sketch that’s come to be… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Most of us have seen, if only in the movies, the drama of a “hostage statement.” Unseen kidnappers force their hostage to sit in front of a camera and speak – perhaps assuring the world that he or she is alive and well, or to state the philosophy or demands or… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. More than six decades ago, an engineer from the Boeing company boarded a passenger plane driven by propellers. After introducing himself to the man sitting next to him, he began to talk excitedly about the project to which he had given much of his life – the development of the Boeing 707… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Like most kids, I grew up hearing that Christopher Columbus was the man who bravely stood up to the religious superstitions of the Dark Ages. Ignorant people – deceived by Catholic priests – were certain that the world was flat. If you sailed all the way to the edge of the Earth,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here. A number of years ago, author and sociologist Tony Campolo was a keynote speaker at a world missions conference in the Midwest. The audience included more than 10,000 collegians and twenty-somethings who had gathered to hear inspiring calls to change the world. Campolo stood at the platform and shouted, “Isn’t this conference great?” … Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Let’s face it. My hometown Indianapolis Colts need help. The Blue and White have once again staggered out of the gate at the beginning of the NFL season, hoping they will somehow catch up with the rest of the pack by Thanksgiving. So I’ve decided to make my move. It’s time to make… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. When Gary Haugen, founder of the International Justice Mission, was ten years old, he went camping with his father and his two older brothers on Mt. Rainier – the massive, snow-covered volcanic dome that towers over Seattle. The upper slopes of Mt. Rainier are not for people seeking casual day hikes. Haugen still… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. “Nothing buttery” sounds like a winning diet strategy. It’s actually slang for a philosophical perspective called reductionism, in which apparently mysterious realities are reduced to “nothing but” this or that. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the iconic father of psychoanalysis, pursued scientific reductionism with what can only be described as relentless zeal. According to Freud, human… Read more »
