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 »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In 1934, an African American pastor from Georgia embarked on a dream trip to the Old World. He sailed across the Atlantic. He toured the Holy Lands. Then he crossed the Mediterranean and journeyed to Berlin, where he attended an international conference of Baptist pastors. During his time in Germany, Michael King had a… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here There’s nothing quite as exhilarating as squeezing your body through a narrow sieve of limestone knowing there’s a hundred feet of solid rock just above your head. Spelunkers, at least, love that challenge. People with claustrophobia generally don’t have such a positive experience in “wild” caves. Nor do those who cut corners on their preparation. On a… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In 1903, a photographer from Seattle named Edward S. Curtis had a big idea. He dreamed of capturing the faces and the lives of North American Indians, something no one else had ever attempted. Curtis knew that the clock was ticking. The “old ways” of the First Peoples (and the people themselves)… Read more »
