Music & the Spoken Word Library

You’ll Never Walk Alone – Sunday, April 14, 1985

If we would have our way, we would book ourselves a safe passage through this life.

The Silence of Growth – Sunday, March 31, 1985

The world shouts its demands at us in many ways. Voices over a thousand radio stations jangle at once. Undigested bits of information come creeping...

What’s In A Name? – Sunday, March 17, 1985

Shakespeare's Juliet, on her balcony pondered a question that gives cause for consideration yet today. "What's in a name?" she asked. "That which we call...

Fostering Aesthetic Awareness – Sunday, March 10, 1985

For many of us, life is a visit to a large picture gallery—a gallery where most of the paintings are facing the wall. Our senses...

The Workmanship of Mine Hands – Sunday, March 03, 1985

One of life's more youthful and exciting times is the annual renewal of the earth called spring. It's a time when one can have a...

The Power of Praise – Sunday, February 17, 1985

More than a hundred years ago the famous English man of letters, Samuel Johnson, said, “The applause of a single human being is of great...

Facing Problems – Sunday, February 10, 1985

In much of the Northern Hemisphere it is the long, gray season when life seems a little harder for want of sunshine.  We battle flu...

Life is Good – Sunday, February 03, 1985

Often our lives are so full of the bounty of this world that it is easy for us to say, "Life is good." We have...

Being Anonymous – Sunday, January 27, 1985

There are among us those whose names are household words, whose lives and actions are common knowledge to all: movie personalities, sports heroes, politicians and...