To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Long-time residents of Chicago can still remember when their mayor moved into hell. Actually, Jane Byrne and her husband moved into the area on the Near North Side that had long been known as Little Hell. That name went back to the 1850s, when Irish immigrants lived in dismal conditions near a gas refinery… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Over the course of a ministry that spanned more than four decades, Tim Keller taught people how to live. After he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2020, Keller began to focus on teaching people how to die – a mission that he completed last Friday morning when he left this world… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. It’s Dandelion Explosion Season. About the time that daily temperatures hover in the mid-70s, countless trillions of dandelions suddenly begin to bloom. They thrive on all seven continents – even Antarctica. Historically, this member of the daisy family is prized as great medicine and great food. It turns out that dandelions are storehouses of pharmacologically… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Hollywood’s love affair with Indiana Jones launched an international passion for archeology. Who wouldn’t want to crack open the door of a long-forgotten temple – unseen by human eyes for centuries – in order to search for priceless treasures? OK, maybe crack open the door of a long-forgotten temple without all the cobwebs… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Residents of the American Southwest are hoping against hope they won’t have to face two “dead pools” this year. That sentiment has nothing to do with Deadpool, the wisecracking Marvel comic book character played by Ryan Reynolds. “Dead pool” is the worst-case scenario for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the nation’s two largest reservoirs… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Residents of the American Southwest are hoping against hope they won’t have to face two “dead pools” this year. That sentiment has nothing to do with Deadpool, the wisecracking Marvel comic book character played by Ryan Reynolds. “Dead pool” is the worst-case scenario for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, the nation’s two largest reservoirs… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. What profession creeps people out more than any other? We don’t need a scientific study to confirm what we already suspect: People are seriously creeped out by clowns. According to the digital news source Vox, more Americans are afraid of clowns than of climate change, terrorism, and even death. A few years ago, Dr. Frank McAndrew,… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Windsor Elliot was blessed with one of the world’s most beautiful faces. During her meteoric rise as a fashion supermodel in the 1960s, she appeared on the cover of Vogue four times, including the one displayed above. Diana Vreeland, the magazine’s editor-in-chief, coached her models with a simple six-word maxim: Fake it, fake it,… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Ron Popeil has almost certainly made an impact on your life, even if you don’t recognize his name or face. Popeil, who died two years ago at the age of 86, was the founder of Ronco, the company which gave birth to the Veg-O-Matic and dozens of other novelty inventions. In the 50s and… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Every time we tune in to a TV news broadcast, attend worship, or hang out with neighbors, it isn’t long before a familiar, soul-wearying subject rears its head: It’s Left vs Right. Liberals vs Conservatives. Progressives vs Reactionaries. What are the two sides fighting about now? And who decided that liberals should be called… Read more »
