To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A few years ago, when I was serving as a workplace pastor for a healthcare company, one of our Black associates, seemingly out of the blue, asked me a question. “Are you planning to write a morning reflection about Juneteenth?” “I’d be glad to do that,” I answered enthusiastically. Then… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In the movie A Beautiful Mind, Russell Crowe plays Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash. The film recounts the true story of Nash’s descent into schizophrenia, followed by his agonizing attempts to regain something of a “normal” life as a Princeton University professor in the middle of the twentieth century. But the… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Someone asked me a while back about my taste in music. “ABC,” I answered. Anything But Country. I love classical symphonies, electronic big beat, bluegrass, rock and roll, jazz fusion – you name it. I’ve just never been able to resonate with mournful tunes about breakups, bankruptcies, “She got the gold… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The world’s most powerful brands, as represented by their familiar logos, are famously effective at influencing our thoughts. When I see the stylized words “Coca-Cola” – white on a sea of red or red on a sea of white – I imagine popping the top on a chilled soda can. When… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here What exactly does Jesus ask of his followers? Most of us quietly hope it won’t be too costly. Author Anne Lamott wonders aloud, “Why couldn’t Jesus command us to obsess about everything, to try to control and manipulate people…to stomp away to brood when people annoy us, and then eat a… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Like the contractors and foremen who are hoping to hire workers, Jesus Morales occasionally drops by one of the southern California parking lots or street corners where unemployed laborers gather early every morning, hoping to be chosen for a day’s work. But the 27-year-old doesn’t take any workers to a construction… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here If you’re a high school youth group leader in Indiana, there’s one event every year that is guaranteed to be a hit. Take a winter ski trip to Michigan! It’s not that Michigan has a mountain range or world-class slopes. But it does sit far enough north to receive generous quantities… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here What’s the most common element in the universe? That’s easy. Not even close. Chemists estimate that 92% of all the atoms in the cosmos are hydrogen – the simplest element on the periodic table, comprised of one proton, one neutron, and one electron. What’s number two? Also a no-brainer. It’s helium,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The summer months are once again upon us. That’s good news for people who love to read, since June, July, and August often provide opportunities to relax on a porch, deck, or beach with a great book. The bad news is that when it comes to the experience of reading, Americans… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “If there was ever a moment for prayer, no matter what you might believe, this was it.” That’s historian John Meacham’s assessment of what was at stake on June 6, 1944, as the Allies began Operation Overlord. It was D-Day. The combined military forces of the nations that opposed Hitler’s Third Reich… Read more »
