A Light For This Year – Sunday, January 06, 1980
The turn of a decade, perhaps even more than the turn of a year, is a time for reflection, a summing up of where we've...
Music & the Spoken Word Library
O the kind words we give…
January 30, 1972
The words of an old song suggest a subject: "Let us oft speak kind words to each other, At home or wher-e'er we may be...
Self-Searching
January 23, 1972
There is a proverb that says: “Believe no tales from an enemy’s tongue.” But perhaps we can believe our own examination of ourselves.
We Can All Be There
January 9, 1972
One of the most gracious and considerate men of our acquaintance, and one of the busiest also, puts at ease those who come to call...
Why Not Now?
January 2, 1972
“Build the more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!”1 This is more than a line of finely phrased poetry. It suggests...
Where one door shuts, another opens… – Sunday, January 01, 1960
There is maxim quoted in Don Quixote which this day somehow suggests: "Where one door shuts, another opens. . .."1 We come to an end...
The essence of all that Christmas is – Sunday, December 25, 1960
We have spoken before of the several sides of this season. But beyond all else, all the festivities, all the gathering of families and friends,...
Home—and Christmas – Sunday, December 18, 1960
What can one say for a season where so much is intermixed? There is thoughtfulness for others, but a thoughtfulness preoccupied with a bustling of...
What takes our time – Sunday, December 11, 1960
Last week we talked of the waste of worshiping the average, and that the average is neither an absolute nor an ideal and is not...