To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Let’s face it. My hometown Indianapolis Colts need help. The Blue and White have once again staggered out of the gate at the beginning of the NFL season, hoping they will somehow catch up with the rest of the pack by Thanksgiving. So I’ve decided to make my move. It’s time to make… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. When Gary Haugen, founder of the International Justice Mission, was ten years old, he went camping with his father and his two older brothers on Mt. Rainier – the massive, snow-covered volcanic dome that towers over Seattle. The upper slopes of Mt. Rainier are not for people seeking casual day hikes. Haugen still… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. “Nothing buttery” sounds like a winning diet strategy. It’s actually slang for a philosophical perspective called reductionism, in which apparently mysterious realities are reduced to “nothing but” this or that. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the iconic father of psychoanalysis, pursued scientific reductionism with what can only be described as relentless zeal. According to Freud, human… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Henry Ford lived his entire life within a dozen miles of the Dearborn, Michigan farm where he was born. A guy who experienced almost nothing of the world nevertheless changed it in ways that are still reverberating today. Ford is arguably the most successful industrialist of all time. He is hardly remembered as… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. It can be a hoot to read some of the actual statements that have been submitted on auto insurance claim forms. Here’s a handful that have been floating around the internet the past few years: “Coming home, I drove into the wrong house and collided with a tree I don’t have.” “My car was… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. In AD 165, during the reign of Marcus Aurelius, a virus brought the Roman Empire to its knees. A deadly epidemic swept across the Mediterranean world. Historians guess that it was smallpox, making its first incursion into a population that had no immunity. Whole cities and provinces were abandoned and fell into ruin. … Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. When a woman named Angi realized that her marriage had come to an end – that her husband had really left her and wasn’t coming back – she wondered how she could possibly survive the pain. Even after the judge declared the finality of her divorce, she couldn’t bear to remove her… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Michael Simone, a pastor in Virginia, calls it Broom Theology. As a young man Simone worked for a trucking company. On slow days at the warehouse, when there weren’t many trucks to load, he and his friends would tend to stand around. That’s when one of the older warehouse bosses would always say,… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. King Arthur is alive and well. That’s good news for someone who reigned in England some 1500 years ago, and whose very existence is questioned by numerous medieval scholars. With the passing of time, an astonishing number of legendary stories have become attached to his name. Purdue professor Dorsey Armstrong, an… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Author and pastor John Ortberg has playfully imagined how the book of Genesis might read if God approached work the way we so often do: In the beginning, it was nine o’clock, so God had to go to work. He filled out a requisition to separate light from darkness. He considered making stars… Read more »