To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here You had one job. The internet teems with examples of work projects that fell just a tad short of perfection: misspelled words, mislabeled products, toilets installed upside-down, and highway direction signs that appear to beckon drivers into walls or over a precipice. You had just one thing to do. And if you mess… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Beirut, Lebanon, was once considered one of the most beautiful cities in the world. It was known as the Paris of the Middle East. All that changed during the Lebanese civil war of the 1970s. Beirut was devastated. Citizens fled the city as fast as they could. Sami was a Lebanese Christian who,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here I’ve had a lifetime love affair with the Indianapolis “500.” As a resident of central Indiana, it’s been relatively easy to make my way to the track on race day so I can join 300,000 of my closet friends. Back in the early 1970s, however, things got trickier. The date of… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In an episode of the TV series Boston Legal, Tom Selleck’s fiancé struggles with fits of uncontrolled laughter. The only way to break the spell is to remind her of a tragedy. Selleck speaks just two words: “Bill Buckner.” She immediately stops laughing. Why does that name, in the minds of… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here My life is not actually about me. In my head and in my heart, I know that’s true. The problem, of course, is that I really have a hard time choosing to live as if that were true. I am constantly thinking about myself. It takes no effort whatsoever. When I… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here When challenged to name an influential president, most Americans gravitate to those four granite heads on Mount Rushmore. Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Teddy Roosevelt, after all, were undeniably key difference-makers in our nation’s history. But it’s likely that the president who will most influence your speech today will be America’s eighth… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here There has never been a shortage of utopian dreamers – individuals who believe they hold the key to humanity’s ultimate happiness. One of them was Alexander Scriabin, a Russian musician who became convinced he had been chosen to write a masterwork that would usher in the very end of history. Born… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Anne Rice stunned the literary world in 1998 when she announced she had become a Christian. As a self-described “pessimistic atheist” and the author of the supernatural thriller Interview With the Vampire and its sequels, Rice seemed to be one of the least likely celebrity converts. She acknowledged that many of… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Who’s the most dominant American individual in the history of the Summer Olympics? Sportscaster Mike Greenberg teases that question in Got Your Answers, a book that endeavors to settle “the top 100 greatest sports arguments.” Track and field superstar Carl Lewis comes to mind. So does gymnast Simone Biles. How about… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Almost 30 years ago, I attended a Promise Keepers gathering of about 40,000 pastors in Atlanta. It was an assembly that represented hundreds of different church groups and denominational affiliations. We heard speaker after speaker. After a while their messages, many of which were genuinely inspiring, began to blend together. I… Read more »
