Music & the Spoken Word Library

Just Let the Fire Warm You – Sunday, March 27, 2022

When he was nearing 80 years old, Archbishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa was asked in an interview, “Have you found that your relationship to...

Showing Our Love – Sunday, March 20, 2022

Hundreds of years ago, Shakespeare wrote this timeless wisdom: “They do not love, that do not show their love.”[1] Yes, love is a feeling, an...

The Mighty Vasa – Sunday, March 13, 2022

On a Sunday nearly 400 years ago—August 10, 1628, to be exact—not far from here at the navy shipyard in Stockholm, the mighty Swedish warship...

The Focus of Our Lives – Sunday, March 06, 2022

For two years, the pandemic has given us something this world has rarely faced—a common hardship. While everyone’s experience has been different, no person, no...

In the Direction of Hope – Sunday, February 27, 2022

In one of George Bernard Shaw’s plays, a successful young woman challenges the idea that we are victims of our circumstances. “I don’t believe in...

Those Who Make us Better – Sunday, February 20, 2022

A young man once asked Warren Buffet, one of the world’s foremost investors, what advice he would give on how to be successful. He might...

No Tinge of Regret – Sunday, February 13, 2022

For many people, life is filled with busyness. There’s nothing inherently wrong, of course, with being busy. But it’s also not inherently a virtue—especially when...

Timeless Tales – Sunday, February 06, 2022

Here at Copenhagen’s City Hall Square, on one of the city’s busiest streets, stands an impressive bronze statue. The street is known as H. C. Andersens...

Of Miracles and Examples – Sunday, January 30, 2022

Have you ever felt like you needed a miracle? In the midst of calamities global and local, shared, and private, we wish we could change...