To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Revive and Restore sounds like a spiritual retreat ministry. In truth, it’s a consortium of biologists and geneticists who have been working for years to clone a number of creatures that used to walk and fly amongst us. Their flagship project is the passenger pigeon, billions of which lived in North America until they… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. “Mommy, why did God make mosquitoes?” That’s a very good question. And it’s one that grown-ups annually find themselves asking as spring weather morphs into the signature heat and humidity of summer that mosquitoes seem to love. “Mosquito metrics” are daunting. Entomologists know of at least 3,500 species, 175 of which are proud to call… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. In 2008, three former college schoolmates living in San Francisco came up with a novel idea. Since hotel accommodations in the Bay Area were both hard to find and exceedingly expensive, they devised a website that would help out-of-towners locate short-term living quarters and breakfast – essentially, an opportunity for guests to… Read more »