To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Humanity’s most heartbreaking conflict produced one of its most heartwarming stories. Today there are at least a dozen memorials in five different countries that honor Wojtek, the bear that went to war. The saga of Wojtek (pronounced VOY-tech) began in the spring of 1942, when thousands of Polish soldiers and civilians… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here On August 15, 1943, Allied planes dropped high-explosive bombs on Milan, Italy. Their goal was to drive Axis forces, loyal to Hitler’s Germany, from their strongholds in the city. Despite the intentions of Allied pilots to spare, if possible, Milan’s irreplaceable art treasures, a bomb fell within 80 feet of the… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky once wrote, “Beauty will save the world.” He seems to have meant that when people struggle to find common ground – when reason and logic fail to unite people who can’t stand the sight of each other – there’s always a chance that beautiful things will build bridges… Read more »
Charlotte Bronte, an unmarried, impoverished woman who lived in the desolate moors of northern England, longed to write a novel. In 1846, at the age of 30, she submitted her first manuscript – The Professor – to a publisher. It was rejected. Four more publishers returned her manuscript, each time with a rejection notice prominently affixed to the front page. … Read more »
