To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Some people wear Superman pajamas. Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas. That’s one of hundreds of so-called Chuck Norris “facts” that for the past 17 years have fed a logic-defying cultural phenomenon and Internet craze. In 2005 talk show host Conan O’Brien began to tell jokes about the martial arts fighter and actor whose… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here. During the past five decades, Morton Kondracke has been one of the most recognizable American political commentators. The independent-thinking journalist appeared as a panelist on The McLaughlin Group and co-hosted the lively televised conversations known as The Beltway Boys. Now at age 83 he continues to write for the non-partisan Capitol Hill… Read more »
Jesus said to his disciples: “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest” (Mark 6:31). On this Labor Day, our quiet place may not include spectacular scenery. But we can always stop for a few minutes. To breathe out a word of thanks for God’s gift of life. And to thank him for the privilege… Read more »
You received this email because 51 years ago Ray Tomlinson spent a few hours messing around. Tomlinson was a computer programmer working with ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet. In 1971 a whopping 15 computers had been linked to each other. Ray thought it might be useful one day to send messages between computers. The trick was to figure out a way… Read more »
Real men don’t use parachutes. That, at least, was the official position of America’s military commanders during World War One. The “Great War” (1914-1918) was the first time that airplanes were used in combat, or that anyone even imagined they had strategic military value. When Captain Eddie Rickenbacker – America’s “ace of aces” with 26 confirmed aerial victories – first squeezed into the… Read more »
Throughout the month of August, we’re taking a close look at 23 verses of the New Testament. They comprise Ephesians chapter one, which paints one of the Bible’s most comprehensive pictures of what it means for ordinary people to be “in Christ.” A man named David Rice Atchison was President of the United States for one day. And he didn’t even know… Read more »
Throughout the month of August, we’re taking a close look at 23 verses of the New Testament. They comprise Ephesians chapter one, which paints one of the Bible’s most comprehensive pictures of what it means for ordinary people to be “in Christ.” A quarter century ago Tom Smith, a pastor in South Africa, was on the fast track. Using his entrepreneurial spirit… Read more »
Throughout the month of August, we’re taking a close look at 23 verses of the New Testament. They comprise Ephesians chapter one, which paints one of the Bible’s most comprehensive pictures of what it means for ordinary people to be “in Christ.” There’s a well-worn story about a man who, on his way to work every morning, walked past a… Read more »
Throughout the month of August, we’re taking a close look at 23 verses of the New Testament. They comprise Ephesians chapter one, which paints one of the Bible’s most comprehensive pictures of what it means for ordinary people to be “in Christ.” Shortly before his death in January 1924, a feeble and incapacitated Vladimir Illich Lenin made it clear that he… Read more »
Throughout the month of August, we’re taking a close look at 23 verses of the New Testament. They comprise Ephesians chapter one, which paints one of the Bible’s most comprehensive pictures of what it means for ordinary people to be “in Christ.” The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco is one of the world’s most spectacular feats of engineering. It has also… Read more »
