To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The Winter Olympics of Milano-Cortina was supposed to yield the greatest harvest of American gold medals of the past three decades. Instead, many of America’s made-for-TV superstars have experienced failure on an epic scale. Lindsey Vonn crashed in the women’s downhill and shattered her left leg. Mikaela Shiffrin, history’s most accomplished skier, has been… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Each day this month we’re looking closely at one of the 1:1 verses of the Bible – exploring what we can learn from chapter one / verse one of various Old and New Testament books. “In the days when the judges ruled, there was a famine in the land. So a man from… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here One of the world’s most beloved Christmas songs sprang from one of the world’s closest calls to nuclear oblivion. For 13 days in October 1962, the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union squared off in the Cuban Missile Crisis. At the height of Cold War anxiety, Soviet premier… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A half-century ago, the Ford Motor Company was embroiled in a national controversy concerning the Pinto, a compact car that sometimes burst into flames when struck from behind. One of the landmark accidents took place not far from my home in Indiana. A Chevy van ploughed into the back of a Pinto and… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Twenty-eight days from now, every American citizen age 18 and older will be free to do what approximately half the world can only dream about. We will have the opportunity to choose our own leaders. But this astonishing privilege once again seems to be compromised by a pervasive fog of disappointment,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Nuclear weapons, ominously, have found their way into both entertainment and the evening news in recent months. Oppenheimer, the story of America’s development of nuclear technology in World War II, recently took home seven Oscars, including Best Picture. Fallout, a post-apocalyptic TV series set in bombed-out Los Angeles, is a hit on… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here According to a recent edition of Smithsonian Magazine, it “stands as the single most important piece of 20th century futurism.” The authors weren’t talking about Brave New World, 1984, The Hunger Games, Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, or one of Israeli historian’s Yuval Noah Harari’s hair-raising prognostications. America’s most memorable glimpse into the future was… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Throughout the month of August, we’re looking at Ecclesiastes, that strange and seemingly “modern” Old Testament book that depicts what happens when humanity searches for ultimate meaning apart from God. When it comes to the subject of death, it seems that everybody has something to say: “Do not try to live forever. You will… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Over the course of a ministry that spanned more than four decades, Tim Keller taught people how to live. After he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2020, Keller began to focus on teaching people how to die – a mission that he completed last Friday morning when he left this world… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Noted marriage therapist John Gottman, who has observed thousands of couples in his Love Lab at the University of Washington, claims he can predict with 94% accuracy which relationships are headed for divorce. What’s the number one predictor? Gottman votes for contempt. Contempt is anger mingled with disgust – the settled conviction of someone… Read more »
