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Our Daily Bread

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To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “How are you doing?”“Just fine, thank you.” That script, which most of us have followed more times than we can count, might constitute the world’s shortest conversation. But it hardly qualifies as a meeting of minds and hearts. And in this context, “fine” almost never means everything is fine. “Fine” often serves as a one-word… Read more »

Daily Bread

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A feature film proved to be the ultimate recruiting tool for archaeology. Thousands of fans of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) dreamed of becoming the next Indiana Jones – the fedora-wearing, bullwhip-cracking adventurer who fends off scheming Nazis, slithering snakes, and ancient curses to recover the world’s most priceless artifacts. Real-life archaeology is considerably less dramatic.  In 1897, two… Read more »