To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Have you ever bought a product because it had a great rebate, but you never got around to sending it in? Manufacturers and retailers everywhere want to thank you. And they sincerely hope you sustain this helpful pattern of behavior – helpful for manufacturers and retailers, that is. Rebates are one… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The most tragic survivor of the sinking of Titanic was surely J. Bruce Ismay. The dapper, mustachioed managing director of the White Star Line often chose to travel on the maiden voyage of each of his company’s new ships. He wouldn’t have missed Titanic’s first cruise for the world. In retrospect,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Frances Jane Crosby, who was born in New York in 1820, developed a minor eye inflammation when she was six weeks old. Although there have been differing accounts of a local doctor’s efforts to address her condition, they all agree on one thing: He did not make things better. The little… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the summer of 1862, while the Civil War was raging between North and South, Union General Daniel Butterfield was searching for a new way to signal “lights out” at the end of the day. Butterfield wrote a simple tune that his bugler, Oliver Wilcox Norton, first performed at Harrison’s Landing,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Indianapolis International Airport is situated far enough outside the urban sprawl of the Hoosier capital that incoming jets fly right over local agricultural fields. Imagine that I am on a late summer flight and look down during our final approach and see nine words written in the standing corn: “Welcome Glenn… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A lot of rock stars try to be cool and rebellious. Not many aspire to forge partnerships with business, religious, and political leaders in order to eradicate AIDS, poverty, and malaria in Africa. Bono, the lead singer and chief creative force of the Irish super group U2, somehow manages to do… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Talk about a crazy job assignment. In 1835, a pair of pharmacists from the English town of Worcester were asked to recreate a fish sauce that a local dignitary said he had enjoyed on a visit to India. Lord Marcus Sandys entrusted the list of ingredients to John Lea and William… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Talk about a crazy job assignment. In 1835, a pair of pharmacists from the English town of Worcester were asked to recreate a fish sauce that a local dignitary said he had enjoyed on a visit to India. Lord Marcus Sandys entrusted the list of ingredients to John Lea and William… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The Haskell Free Library and Opera House is one of the most interesting places on earth. The northern part of the building is in Stanstead, Quebec. The southern part is in Derby Line, Vermont. The building has two different phone numbers and mailing addresses, each of which represents a different country. That… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The late Richard Halverson was Chaplain of the United States Senate from 1981 through 1994. Prior to that he had spent years as a local church pastor. A friend once asked him, “Dick, what was the most significant thing you did that brought vitality and spiritual strength to the people you… Read more »