To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here What’s the most common element in the universe? That’s easy. Not even close. Chemists estimate that 92% of all the atoms in the cosmos are hydrogen – the simplest element on the periodic table, comprised of one proton, one neutron, and one electron. What’s number two? Also a no-brainer. It’s helium,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The summer months are once again upon us. That’s good news for people who love to read, since June, July, and August often provide opportunities to relax on a porch, deck, or beach with a great book. The bad news is that when it comes to the experience of reading, Americans… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here “If there was ever a moment for prayer, no matter what you might believe, this was it.” That’s historian John Meacham’s assessment of what was at stake on June 6, 1944, as the Allies began Operation Overlord. It was D-Day. The combined military forces of the nations that opposed Hitler’s Third Reich… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Years ago, when I was the senior pastor of a local congregation, I remember fielding a challenging question. How long would it take a visitor to our church to be introduced to our mission, vision, and values, and to know specifically what to do to become involved in living them out? … Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Let’s face it: Sean Astin is never going to live down Rudy. The 53-year-old actor is best known for playing the lead role in the 1993 film about Daniel Reuttiger, a real-life walk-on to the Notre Dame football team. He even lampooned himself in a commercial in which former NFL stars… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here A number of people have made memorable comments about the end of life: Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75. Ben FranklinThe idea is to die young as late as possible. Ashley MontaguWhen you’re dead, you’re dead. That’s it. Marlene DietrichI would rather die a meaningful death than… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Have you ever bought a product because it had a great rebate, but you never got around to sending it in? Manufacturers and retailers everywhere want to thank you. And they sincerely hope you sustain this helpful pattern of behavior – helpful for manufacturers and retailers, that is. Rebates are one… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here The most tragic survivor of the sinking of Titanic was surely J. Bruce Ismay. The dapper, mustachioed managing director of the White Star Line often chose to travel on the maiden voyage of each of his company’s new ships. He wouldn’t have missed Titanic’s first cruise for the world. In retrospect,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Frances Jane Crosby, who was born in New York in 1820, developed a minor eye inflammation when she was six weeks old. Although there have been differing accounts of a local doctor’s efforts to address her condition, they all agree on one thing: He did not make things better. The little… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the summer of 1862, while the Civil War was raging between North and South, Union General Daniel Butterfield was searching for a new way to signal “lights out” at the end of the day. Butterfield wrote a simple tune that his bugler, Oliver Wilcox Norton, first performed at Harrison’s Landing,… Read more »
