To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. Growing up in the 1950s, my brothers and I did what we assumed every other American boy was doing. We collected baseball cards. At… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) is widely acknowledged as one of the most extraordinary musical geniuses of all time. The only people who didn’t seem… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. There’s no piece of real estate on Earth quite like the DMZ. The Korean Demilitarized Zone, which roughly follows the 38th parallel, divides North… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. It is a dreadful thing to be forgotten. For some people, the very fear of that thing is a real thing. It’s… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. Sometimes, in order to discover the truth, you have to step up and find out for yourself. That was the conclusion of Barry Marshall,… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. It’s a wonderful thing to live under the sun. Some of us may be reluctant to affirm that statement in the midst of a… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. “It was a dark and stormy night…” That’s the opening line from the 1830 novel Paul Clifford by English writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton. It is widely… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Does this guy look familiar? He’s The Most Interesting Man in the World. In truth, he’s an actor named Jonathan Goldsmith who starred in a series of TV commercials for a brand of Mexican beer between 2006 and 2016. Against a backdrop of gentle Spanish guitar riffs, a narrator would calmly recount the latest of… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Hospitals can be forbidding places. That’s true even for caregivers who usually feel at ease with others. People requiring hospitalization are generally not at their best. It can be uncomfortable walking in on a patient who is struggling physically, emotionally, and spiritually. When I was 25 years old I didn’t know the first thing… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. On May 12, 1935, William Griffith Wilson journeyed to Akron, Ohio, to try to close a business deal. The deal flopped. A familiar feeling of dread began to engulf him. He was a failure, and everyone surely knew it. Wilson needed an escape – a way to survive this sharp moment of disappointment. As… Read more »
