To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here August 14, 2003, was the night that the lights went out in New York City. A blackout shut down the power grid in eight states, mostly in the Northeast, and almost all of the Canadian province of Ontario. Approximately 55 million people had no air conditioning, microwaves, or cell phones for… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here This is that special time of year when monarch butterflies grace our gardens, not to mention the milkweeds growing alongside farmers’ fields. For a long time, these beautiful, fragile creatures were at the center of one of the great mysteries of science. Every fall, people both east and west of the… Read more »
To listen to this reflection as a podcast, click here. Who was the first president of the United States? That may sound like the easiest question on an American history pop quiz. But over the years a surprising number of different answers have been proposed. It really comes down to when America actually became a nation. The Fourth of July commemorates 1776’s Declaration of Independence… Read more »
When Dr. J. Robertson McQuilkin died in 2016, he left behind a glittering ministry track record. During his 88 years he served as a Bible college faculty member and the headmaster of a Christian school. He and his wife Muriel and their four children journeyed to Japan, where over the course of a dozen years he planted five new congregations. He… Read more »
