To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In 1885, Tsar Alexander III placed an order for an Easter gift for his wife. It wasn’t just any Easter gift. The leader of Russia’s royal family asked the master jeweler Peter Carl Faberge to create something special. Something fit for an empress. The result was a white enamel Easter egg,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl was gripped by a compelling idea. Was it possible that the indigenous people of South America, centuries before Columbus, had actually sailed across thousands of miles of open water and helped populate the Polynesian islands of the South Pacific? Heyerdahl and five companions decided to see if such a… Read more »