For every high school football player that eventually makes it to the NFL, there are hundreds of thousands who don’t. Only 7.1% of those who play football in high school end up playing the sport in college, and just 1.6% of those who play football in college end up playing in the NFL. Still, some […]
The Cost of a Resurrection Life
AZT was the first drug used to treat HIV, being licensed to treat HIV in 1987. It wasn’t a miracle cure. In those early days, it could only be counted on to increase lifespan by about a year. But at the time any improvement in survival was something. Then in 1996 the whole landscape of […]
Light Equals Life
The sea was luminous in specks and in the wake of the vessel, of a uniform slightly milky colour. When the water was put into a bottle, it gave out sparks… Such was the sea as Charles Darwin described it in his notes while aboard the Beagle, just off the Canary Islands, on January 6, […]
The Virtue of Hope in the Age of Coronavirus
A sermon on John 4:5-42 given by the Rev. Teri Daily on March 15, 2020… Our world has changed drastically in the past two weeks. Two weeks ago we began Lent with face-to-face Sunday worship and Wednesday night soup suppers; now we find ourselves joining one another online and eating meals at home. Two weeks […]