To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Dr. David Livingstone, the celebrated 19th century British missionary, anti-slavery activist, and explorer of central Africa, arrived on one occasion at the edge of a large territory that was ruled by a tribal chieftain. He was commanded to stop at the perimeter and wait. According to tradition, the chief would come out to meet… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here At the doorway to this last weekend of January, snow covers something like 65% of the United States. Is your heart set on creating the tallest snowman or the most spectacular snow fort your neighbors have ever seen? If you’re hoping to challenge some existing records, you’d better get started early and recruit a… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here My two brothers and I lost our dad eight years ago this month. He stepped into the next world on January 12, which happened to be Mom’s birthday. She had left us a mere seven months earlier. Scott, Bruce, and I pictured Mom in heaven, looking up just in time to see her husband… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here For most of his adult life, Moses felt something like deep disillusionment and hopelessness. Having failed disastrously in his own strength to free his fellow Hebrews from slavery in Egypt, he fled into the Sinai wilderness. There he spent 40 years apparently doing little more than tending sheep and keeping his head down. Then,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Last weekend, American rock climber Alex Honnold got in a little exercise. In less than 90 minutes, he ascended Tawain’s Taipei 101 skyscraper aided only by his bare hands – no ropes or protective equipment of any kind. The building, one of the world’s tallest, rises 1,667 feet and has 101 floors. Honnold, wearing… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here All his life, Arland D. Williams, Jr., had been afraid of the water. As an undergrad cadet at the Citadel, where he was known as Chub, he had had to pass a water-safety and swimming test. Chub was afraid he wouldn’t be able to push through his fears. He did. But the biggest… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Nebraska is a place that I have never called home. It is a Great Plains state that I have experienced from time to time on my way to somewhere else. The Nebraska locale that I happen to know best is a small town along Interstate 80 called North Platte. To date I’ve stopped in North Platte… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Fernando Mendoza is too good to be true. The quarterback of the Indiana University Hoosiers, who won the Heisman Trophy last month as the nation’s premier college player, then led his team to the championship earlier this week (words I never thought I would type), is a genuinely gifted athlete. He’s tough. Yet joyful…. Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The internet and social media runneth over with stories of former believers who have seen the light and abandoned their faith. In his book Making Sense of God, Timothy Keller cites an articulate fellow named S.A. Joyce as representative of these newly liberated individuals: “It gradually dawned on me that in the grand scheme… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The April 8, 1966, cover of TIME is arguably the most famous in the magazine’s history. For the first time, the editors didn’t include an image. The black cover featured three huge words in red text: Is God Dead? That question was connected to the feature article, a survey of certain 1960s theologians who were… Read more »
