The Power of Music

Many music genres carry words of power that can give hope, resilience and strength that have the capacity to lift the souls of mankind – the popular song “You Raise me Up”,  the Hymn “It is Well with My Soul” and “Climb Every Mountain” from the Rogers and...

Observing the Earth

Observing “The beauty of creation” from the distance of space, NASA astronaut Victor Glover shared his perspective from the windows of the Orion [Integrity] spacecraft, while recently undertaking the Artemis II mission. Looking back at us all, he observed this...

Hope That Outlasts the Dark

The theologian Jürgen Moltmann once wrote that those who hope in Christ “can no longer put up with reality as it is” — they begin to resist it, to contradict it, to imagine something better. Moltmann points to a stubborn kind of hope — one that creates a holy...

God is with us and gives us hope

When things feel heavy, and we are afraid, angry or bewildered, God holds us close and travels with us. The New Testament of the Bible tells how Jesus went out of His way to go through Samaria and then subsequently spoke to a Samaritan women.  At this time, Jewish...