Whether you realize it or not, this evening we are present at creation. First, there was the creation of the world – signified by the fire that burned at the entry to our church, fire that was then blessed and spread into hundreds of pinpoints of light throughout this church. We heard the unforgettable story…

Sixty years ago, the psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote a best-selling book about his experiences as a prisoner in Auschwitz. “Man’s Search for Meaning,” is considered to be a classic about the worst nightmare of the last century. Frankl describes how men, women and children coped with the horrors of the camp – how they were…

When I was growing up, like a lot of families, mine had one of those small, cheap Kodak Instamatic cameras. You used those flash bulbs that looked like ice cubes…and got these little square pictures back from the drug store when you had them developed. My dad must have taken hundreds, if not thousands of…

If you somehow forgot to change your clocks this morning and “spring forward,” you can blame a man named William Willet. It was Willet, an English builder and outdoorsman, who is responsible for Daylight Saving Time. In 1905, while horseback riding before breakfast, he noticed that a lot of fellow Londoners slept through the best…

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