To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Years ago, when I was the senior pastor of a local congregation, I remember fielding a challenging question. How long would it take a visitor to our church to be introduced to our mission, vision, and values, and to know specifically what to do to become involved in living them out? … Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Let’s face it: Sean Astin is never going to live down Rudy. The 53-year-old actor is best known for playing the lead role in the 1993 film about Daniel Reuttiger, a real-life walk-on to the Notre Dame football team. He even lampooned himself in a commercial in which former NFL stars… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A number of people have made memorable comments about the end of life: Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75. Ben FranklinThe idea is to die young as late as possible. Ashley MontaguWhen you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it. Marlene DietrichI would rather die a meaningful death than… Read more »
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 »