Music & the Spoken Word Library

The Great Highway – Sunday, July 5, 2020

On the 10th day of May 1869, at a remote promontory north of the Great Salt Lake, Central Pacific Railroad official Leland Stanford struck a...

“But One Life to Lose for My Country” – Sunday June 28, 2020

Nathan Hale was a schoolteacher, fresh out of college, teaching in a one-room school in New London, Connecticut, when the American Colonies went to war...

Just Like Dad – Sunday, June 21, 2020

Good fathers make a big difference in the lives of their children—bigger, in fact, than they might realize. Fathers often try to share with their...

Of Bridges and Transitions – Sunday, June 14, 2020

Life is often compared to a pathway. And, as most of us know by experience, that pathway is rarely smooth and straight. Rather, it takes...

Allowing Change over Time – Sunday, June 07, 2020

Not long ago, a man ran into an old high school friend, one he had not seen for many decades. He remembered his classmate as...

For Love to Flourish – Sunday, May 31, 2020

To be human is to love. We become our best and truest selves only when we stop focusing on ourselves and start loving others. Love...

“The Emblem of the Land We Love” – Sunday, May 24, 2020

The flag of the United States has flown on the earth and the moon, on the home front and the battlefront, in conflict and in...

Doing in Order to Become – Sunday, May 17, 2020

Life is full of important things to do. But if we let those to-do’s fill up our lives, we may be missing something essential about...

Charity: The Greatest Reward of Motherhood – Sunday, May 10, 2020

Much of the world’s most important work is done by people who don’t get much recognition. Teachers, farmers, laborers, military personnel, emergency responders, and so...