To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here When the boogeyman goes to sleep at night, he checks under his bed for Chuck Norris. That’s one of hundreds of so-called Chuck Norris “facts” that for the past 20 years have fed a logic-defying cultural phenomenon and Internet craze. In 2005, talk show host Conan O’Brien began to tell jokes… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A few years ago, two first class passengers on a US Airways flight from Philadelphia to Seattle made arrangements to travel with a pet. Their “therapeutic companion animal” turned out to be a full-grown pig. Others passengers described the 300-pound hog as “enormous, brown, angry, and honking.” At first he was… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Many of life’s most memorable spiritual moments seem to come out of nowhere. They aren’t planned. They aren’t expected. They catch us off guard. It’s as if a curtain is suddenly pulled back, and we catch a glimpse, for just a fleeting moment, of the reality of the invisible world. And… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Generally the passing of a retired chemical engineer wouldn’t make a dent in the national news cycle. But Harrison Ruffin Tyler, who died May 25, was no ordinary citizen. He was the last surviving grandson of John Tyler. Yes, that John Tyler – the man who became America’s 10th president 184… Read more »
