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The Turning Point

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here  With the Civil War now 160 years in the rear-view mirror, historians continue to debate the point at which the Union prevailed. When was the high-water mark of the Confederacy? At what moment in what battle were the South’s hopes, realistically, finally thwarted?  No consensus has emerged. But the epic three-day conflict of July… Read more »

God is Nigh

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the summer of 1862, while the Civil War was raging between North and South, Union General Daniel Butterfield was searching for a new way to signal “lights out” at the end of the day.  Butterfield wrote a simple tune that his bugler, Oliver Wilcox Norton, first performed at Harrison’s Landing,… Read more »