To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here New York City has always been a harrowing place to live. During the 1850s – a long time before the arrival of subways and skyscrapers – the city was deeply unsettled. As depicted in Martin Scorsese’s 2002 feature film Gangs of New York, the streets roiled with conflicts between rich and… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here It’s hard to overstate the eagerness of many underage men to join America’s armed forces in World War II. Calvin Graham was one of them. In August 1942 he walked into a recruiting station in Fort Worth, Texas. The recruiting officer had a pretty good idea Calvin was too young to… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here It appears that something monumental happened in 2023. Demographers will need to crunch a lot of numbers over the next few years just to be sure. For now, there are compelling reasons to believe that two years ago, for presumably the first time in history, the global fertility rate slumped below… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here What happens when children talk to God? If the missives found in Children’s Letters to God (Workman Publishing, 1966) are any indication, what we get is a good deal more honesty that we generally hear in prayers offered by adults. Cartoonist and playwright Stuart E. “Stoo” Hample collaborated with Eric Marshall… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here During the course of a single year (1905), a young man named Albert Einstein submitted several papers to a German physics journal. This was surprising, since Einstein had no scientific pedigree, no university affiliation, and no laboratory to conduct experiments. He was employed at the time in the Swiss national patent… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every day during this season of Lent we’re looking at the miracles of Jesus – his spectacular displays of supernatural power that are reported in the Gospels. In his book Final Words, Adam Hamilton, senior pastor of the Church of the Resurrection in Kansas City, recalls a conversation that happened years ago… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Dr. Paul Offit loves children. As a pediatrician specializing in infectious diseases and immunology, he’s long been at the center of the debates swirling around the efficacy of vaccines. When he thinks that parents or politicians have made choices that put kids at risk, he doesn’t hesitate to speak up. That includes writing an… Read more »
One of the great things about owning a barn in the Midwest is that every spring and summer it becomes a home for barn swallows. These strikingly beautiful visitors are endowed with navy blue backs, cream-colored undersides, a dab of orange under the beak, and distinctive forked tails. They build their nests high up in the rafters of buildings and barns,… Read more »
