To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Pablo Picasso’s 1937 mural Guernica is one of the most emotionally disturbing paintings of all time. It is enormous, standing about 12 feet tall and stretching 25 feet side to side. It is stark, featuring not a single vibrant color from his palette, but only blacks, whites, and grays. It is abstract, displaying classic Picasso… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “How are you doing?”“Just fine, thank you.” That script, which most of us have followed more times than we can count, might constitute the world’s shortest conversation. But it hardly qualifies as a meeting of minds and hearts. And in this context, “fine” almost never means everything is fine. “Fine” often serves as a one-word… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Why is this picture such a hoot? It’s a wonderful example of irony. Irony is a form of humor that’s somewhat hard to define. Technically, it’s “a contradiction between what a statement or situation is supposed to represent, and what it actually is.” Most of us know it when we see it. For instance, when a… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The funeral of America’s seventh president turned out to be a surprisingly memorable event. Andrew Jackson died on June 8, 1845, at the Hermitage, his private residence outside Nashville, Tennessee. Thousands came to pay their respects to the two-term chief executive and military hero. There was a solemn procession followed by hours of… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Four minutes. They were the four longest minutes of Stanislav Petrov’s life. They also represented, arguably, the closest our world has ever come to nuclear catastrophe. On September 26, 1983, Petrov – a lieutenant colonel of the Soviet Air Defense Forces – was the duty officer at the command center for the Oko nuclear early… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Throughout the season of Lent, we’re taking a close look at the Apostles’ Creed – one of the earliest and most concise summaries of what followers of Jesus believe. Very few Hollywood films feature a family praying together before dinner. After listening in on the table grace in Talladega Nights: The Legend of Ricky… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Throughout the season of Lent, we’re taking a close look at the Apostles’ Creed – one of the earliest and most concise summaries of what followers of Jesus believe. C.S. Lewis once imagined what it would be like to grow up in a prison. In a sermon that was ultimately published as The Weight… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Throughout the season of Lent, we’re taking a close look at the Apostles’ Creed – one of the earliest and most concise summaries of what followers of Jesus believe. The human body is extraordinary. That becomes apparent just by considering a handful of numbers. Your body is a teeming metropolis of something like 37 trillion… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Throughout the season of Lent, we’re taking a close look at the Apostles’ Creed – one of the earliest and most concise summaries of what followers of Jesus believe. Did you hear about the guy named Bubba who called 911 because his wife was going into labor? “Please send an ambulance,” he said, “because… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Throughout the season of Lent, we’re taking a close look at the Apostles’ Creed – one of the earliest and most concise summaries of what followers of Jesus believe. Lou Johnson was one of the heroes who helped the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Minnesota Twins in the 1965 World Series. Nicknamed “Sweet” Lou… Read more »
