To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The first fight of the Founding Fathers was about faith. The inaugural session of the Continental Congress – the group that would ultimately call for the drafting of the Declaration of Independence – convened in Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia, on September 6, 1774. Thomas Cushing, a lawyer from Boston, moved that the… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this Lent we’re looking at major “turning points” in Christian history – moments or seasons in which the story of God’s people took an important and often unexpected turn. Shortly after I entered seminary, Mary Sue and I hoped that we might be able to make some friends. … Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In 1942, a foreign army invaded and occupied American soil for the first time since the War of 1812. Japanese troops captured the Aleutian islands of Attu and Kiska, just off the coast of Alaska. An Allied force of some 35,000 Americans and Canadians were given the assignment of taking them… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Students in a class taught by Dr. Dallas Willard remember the day that one of their number was moved to a display of sheer arrogance. Until his death in 2013, Willard – a professor of philosophy at USC and the author of a number of books on Christian spiritual formation –… Read more »
