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 »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. J.K. Rowling’s seven-volume series chronicling the adventures of Harry Potter is crowded with rich details. Readers are treated to magic, mythical beasts, evil wizards, elves, wands, pet owls, a flying broomstick game called Quidditch, and over 200 named characters – all set against the backdrop of a group of British schoolchildren trying their… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Do all dogs go to heaven? What we know for sure is that all dogs may go to church in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. That’s where a wood carving artist named Stephen Huneck, after suffering a life-threatening illness in 1998, decided to build the Dog Chapel, a place of worship dedicated to his favorite canines. Carved… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. There’s something about the earth’s most dramatic geological events – earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis – that make people want to fire God. A few weeks after the December 2004 earthquake that sent mountainous walls of water crashing onto beaches around the Indian Ocean, taking more than 225,000 lives, Ron Rosenbaum of the… Read more »
