by Morning Reflections | Dec 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Not all of the best-loved Christmas songs are hundreds of years old.Mary, Did You Know? hasn’t yet celebrated its 30th birthday, but it’s already become something of a classic.Composer Buddy Greene and lyricist Mark Lowry – two members of the Gaither Vocal Band from...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 16, 2020 | Uncategorized
Father Gregory Boyle is the founder and director of Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles, a widely acclaimed gang intervention program.It’s a ministry that involves considerable heartache. As of 2017 and the release of his book Barking to the Choir: The Power of...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 15, 2020 | Uncategorized
Tennessee Williams’ most famous play, A Streetcar Named Desire, debuted on Broadway in 1947.A journalist who was able to find his way backstage asked one of the performers how he would summarize the play. The actor replied, “It’s about a guy who comes to take a...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
In an 1883 collection of Christmas carols, Away in a Manger was called “Luther’s Cradle Hymn.” This note followed: “Composed by Martin Luther for his children and still sung by German mothers to their little ones.” Nice try. Today we know that James Murray of...
by Morning Reflections | Dec 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
As recently as 125 years ago, some of the world’s brightest thinkers solemnly declared human beings would never fly.They were wrong.About the same time, engineers confidently predicted that the long-distance transmission of pictures was contrary to the laws of...
