Music & the Spoken Word Library

Choosing Good – Sunday, June 24, 1984

One of the most intriguing paradoxes of human nature is our capacity to encompass virtue and vice, strength and weakness, righteousness and sin in a...

The Best of Life – Sunday, June 17, 1984

When we were young, most of us were admonished by our parents to eat our vegetables before the dessert. As adults, we are counseled to...

When We Can’t Wait – Sunday, June 10, 1984

The present has an endless feel about it. When it is summer, the sun seems like our natural inheritance, and we can hardly believe that...

Just One Person – Sunday, June 03, 1884

Ours is a dependent society. In fact, we are so specialized that we depend on each other for virtually everything. Some raise the food we...

A Day for Reflection – Sunday, May 27, 1984

As Memorial Day tributes cause us to reflect about those who have passed on, we should remember that all is well with them, that we...

The Tie That Binds – Sunday, May 20, 1984

As we look at society we see not merely individuals, but groups—couples, families, towns, cities, governments, Wherever we find a society, we find people bound...

Just a Mother – Sunday, May 13, 1984

What a mistake it is to think that motherhood is outdated or menial, or that being a mother is not prestigious.

Freedom and Helplessness – Sunday, May 06, 1984

It is ironic that at a time when we have technology that probes the expanding edges of our galaxy and the spinning center of an...

The Power of Persuasion – Sunday, April 29, 1984

We see today conflicts and clashes in many parts of the world. The battling armies march under various banners and arguments rage under a number...