Music & the Spoken Word Library

When Christmas Comes-Sunday, November 29, 2015

Part of what makes Christmastime so delightful are simple carols like this one, an old nursery rhyme set to a traditional melody:Christmas is coming,The geese...

Prayer of Thanksgiving – Sunday, November 22, 2015- Thanksgiving Special

Some 400 years ago, the Netherlands suffered through a prolonged and bitter war with Spain as it sought religious and political independence. At last, celebrating...

Knowledge versus Wisdom – Sunday, November 15, 2015

We live in a day when more knowledge is literally at our fingertips than ever before. With the click of a button or the touch...

A Symbol of Freedom – Veterans Day Special – November 8, 2015

The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. That moment in 1918 marked the end of World War I and the beginning...

Courage to Endure – Sunday, November 1, 2015

Long-distance runner John Stephen Akhwari represented Tanzania in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with an unforgettable performance in the marathon. He did not...

Good Books – Sunday, October 25, 2015

For hundreds of years, men and women and even nations have been shaped by influential books. If it’s true that we are what we eat,...

The Still, Small Voice of Conscience – Sunday, October 22, 2017

About 45 years ago, the Watergate scandal led to the resignation of a United States president and shook the nation to its core. A young...

A Home That Lasts Forever – Sunday, October 18, 2015

Recently an older home was demolished to make room for a new house to be built on the same property. Over the decades, that home...

The Power of Preparation – Sunday. October 11, 2015

In one of his legendary fables, Aesop, the master storyteller, tells of an encounter between an ant and a grasshopper. It was a sunny summer...