Coming Together – Sunday, September 12, 2021
I’m here in Essex County, New Jersey at the Eagle Rock September 11th Memorial, overlooking Manhattan Island. On that morning, twenty years ago, I was...
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The Labor of Love – Sunday, September 5, 2021
Labor, by definition, is hard. It can be exhausting, uncomfortable, even painful at times. So why do we do it? There are many possible motivations for labor, but the greatest...
Things Bigger Than Basketball – Sunday, August 29, 2021
When Gideon George arrived at New Mexico Junior College, the newest member of the Thunderbirds’ basketball team, he found things to be quite different from...
A Treasure to Be Discovered – Sunday, August 22, 2021
If we open our hearts and listen, we can learn a lot from those who are a few steps ahead of us in life’s journey....
Grow in Patience and Wisdom – Sunday, August 15, 2021
On a particularly hot summer day, a woman jokingly asked her husband to go online and order some cooler weather. The husband got on his...
Of Kindness and Rabbits – Sunday, August 08, 2021
Decades ago, researchers measured the effects of diet on the heart health of rabbits. Not surprisingly, rabbits that were fed fatty foods developed cholesterol problems....
Seeing and Knowing – Sunday, August 01, 2021
A beloved poem from the 1800s tells of six blind men who wanted to find out what an elephant is like. So they went to visit one. Each man approached it from a different direction, each taking hold...
A Step of Faith – Sunday, July 25, 2021
From here in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 1850 and 1900, nearly 20,000 Danes set out across the ocean. Their final destination was Utah Territory in the western United States. Their purpose was to gather with fellow believers. They were pioneers of faith. Along with thousands more across Scandinavia and tens...
Persevere with Hope – Sunday, July 18, 2021
If you’ve ever been to a baseball game, you know that something special happens in the middle of the seventh inning. It’s called the seventh-inning stretch. Reportedly, this...