Today is Columbus Day, although Christopher Columbus didn’t sight land in the Americas on a Monday. His decisions and their consequences should cause us to think about this day. And what happened to make it a recognized day on Monday is a story worth pondering. Download the podcast here!
When it comes morning greetings, I can identify with something the late Christopher Hichens said: “How ya doin’?’ I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, ‘A bit early to tell.” I asked my wife that question one morning recently, “Just getting awake,” she answered, and I immediately wondered …
Herodotus mentioned it in ancient Greece as early as the 5th century, B.C.E; Ponce de Leon went looking for it in Florida in 1513; and in the twentieth century, Este Lauder made a fortune from devotes desiring it. Still, no one has discovered the Fountain of Youth. As hard as we may reach for it, …
We want to know that in the end, there is something beyond the end. We desire some assurance that when that Abyss finally creeps to our doorstep, we will somehow be able to step over it into the beyond, into an Everlasting that’s kind and good to us. A dear lady in my church spoke …