To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In 1983, the Westfield chain of shopping malls in Australia decided to stage an ultramarathon between the cities of Sydney and Melbourne. The race would begin and end, to no one’s surprise, at the Westfield mall in each metropolis. That made the distance a staggering 543.7 miles. World-class ultramarathon runners –… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here More than 20 years ago, my three sons and I got to take the trip of a lifetime. We drove from our home in central Indiana to Alaska and back (9,210 miles in all). Following the Alaska Highway, we traversed the densely forested “wilderness” of the western Canadian provinces and Yukon… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Brace yourself for some dreadful news. If today is an average day, approximately 15,000 children will die somewhere on our planet of preventable or treatable causes. That number should break our hearts. If losing a child represents the deepest sadness, imagine multiplying such grief by 15,000. It’s hard to know even… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here So, are you ready to slip into the passenger seat of a car that drives itself? Ready or not, here they come. Most major car companies have been investing heavily in the design and production of autonomous vehicles. Tesla, Ford, Honda, and Mercedes-Benz have led the way, not to mention start-ups… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the time John Adams and Thomas Jefferson helped launch America in the 1770s, they became close friends. But two decades later, as they each took a turn as America’s president, they morphed into bitter enemies. Adams won the election of 1796, narrowly defeating Jefferson, and thus became the nation’s second… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Last month the world lost a one-of-a-kind character. Arthur Blessitt, a self-described hippie minister, died on January 14 at the age of 84 after a lifetime of crisscrossing the planet hauling a 12-foot cross. By his own reckoning, he walked 43,340 miles – that’s about 86 million steps – through 323… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here 206.8 is an oddly specific number. But that’s the figure that emerged from the research of socio-economist Randall Bell, who diligently studied the habits of more than 5,000 people from all walks of life. Bell concluded that there is a particular daily practice that makes it 206.8% more likely that you… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In the 1880s, northern Wisconsin was still essentially an unsettled and untamed wilderness. Teams of lumberjacks worked for years bringing in harvests of virgin timber to supply the needs of America. Logging camps were not for the faint of heart. Like the Wild West, these male-dominated communities tended to be governed by… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Here’s a pop music pop quiz: What’s the most frequently recorded song of all time, now estimated to have been covered by at least 2,200 different artists? Hint: It also happens to be a song that was literally dreamed up by its composer. In 1965, Paul McCartney awoke one morning with a… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here There’s a story about a pastor who became annoyed with a particular woman in his congregation. She claimed to have daily personal conversations with Jesus. More and more enthusiasts came to her house. They sang hymns and offered prayers of hope and desperation. He wondered if this was about to get out… Read more »
