by Morning Reflections | May 21, 2024 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereThe Haskell Free Library and Opera House is one of the most interesting places on earth.The northern part of the building is in Stanstead, Quebec. The southern part is in Derby Line, Vermont. The...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 27, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click hereFranciscan priest and author Brennan Manning was fond of recounting a story about American G.I.s in France during World War 2.One of their number had been killed in action.They approached the priest in a...
by Morning Reflections | Sep 21, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “An eye for and eye, and a tooth for a tooth.” Gandhi famously said that if we take that Old Testament dictum to its logical conclusion, the whole world will end up blind and...
by Morning Reflections | Jun 1, 2023 | Uncategorized
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. In the movies, when one gentleman offends or insults another, they immediately “throw down.” I challenge you to a duel! And just like that, out come the swords or pistols or some other means...
by Morning Reflections | Feb 21, 2022 | Uncategorized
Zachary Taylor never voted in a U.S. presidential election until he was 64 years old. That’s when the career military officer cast a ballot for himself in the 1848 election that sent him to the White House as America’s 12th chief executive. But the record for a...