Mar 27, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
March Madness is a thrilling demonstration of wholesome competition. But let’s think beyond basketball. Ours is a competitive culture. Much of our social life expresses it. Winning is everything! Though a good thing in many ways, competition can be an enemy,...
Mar 23, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
In his classic volume, The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis offers 31 imaginary letters from Screwtape, the primary personality of Hell, to his nephew Wormwood, a junior devil just starting his first assignment on earth. The purpose of the correspondence, done...
Mar 20, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
I’m writing this on Saturday, the second day of March Madness. Our family has a good time each year, each filling on a NCAA Tournament Bracket. We have a trophy that is given to the person that does “the best” on choosing winning team. The trophy has traveled from...
Feb 26, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
Robert Waldinger, a Harvard psychiatrist is the director of the longest -range study of human contentment ever conducted, the Harvard Study of Adult Development. Beginning in 1938, the study tracked more than 700 people throughout their lives, eventually including...
Feb 21, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
This Wednesday, February 22, beginning in the afternoon, you may begin to see people with a dark smudge on their forehead. If you don’t know, your thought may be, “He didn’t wash his entire face.” If a person senses that you may be questioning his dirty foreword, he...
Feb 17, 2023 | Pondering and Kindling
“We are more than we think we were.” Isn’t that a gripping idea: more than we think we are! This truth was solidly underscored in my mind and conviction when I read the story of French pastor Ivan Carluer, who founded a church in the Créteil neighborhood of Paris....
