Speak Up

The Tipping Point

Morning Reflections September 4, 2025 Comments Off

To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A few days before Christmas 1989, things looked precarious for authoritarian Communist leaders. The Berlin Wall had fallen. The Soviet Union was on the ropes. Revolutions were toppling Eastern European governments. Nikolae Ceausescu, who had ruled Romania by means of sheer brutality since 1965, was determined to be the exception. He… Read more »

Morning Reflections July 19, 2023 Comments Off

To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. When Adolph Hitler rose to power in the 1920s and 30s, Germany was thought to have one of the most Christianized cultures on earth. So where was the Church as the Nazis began their genocidal purges of “undesirable” people groups? Church leaders had to make a choice: They could speak up, or they could… Read more »