Country Singer Merle Haggard's Restless Soul

Country music icon Merle Haggard (1937-2016), had 38 of his albums appear on Billboard's country-music top 10 charts (more than a dozen made it to ...

Study Reveals the Upside of Stress

In 1975, Salvatore Maddi, a psychologist at the University of Chicago, began to study the long-term impact of stress on employees at the Illinois Bell ...

'Stealth Secularism' Hooks Us Through Stories

Christian apologist Nancy Pearcey uses the following story to show how "stealth secularism" can bypass our critical grid and hook us emotionally: ...

Jim Carrey's Search for Fulfillment

What will enough ever be "enough"?

Comedian Jim Carrey presented a similar struggle at the 2016 Golden Globes ceremony. Before announcing the ...

Actor Heath Ledger Still Needed God

Every year there are a few shocking celebrity deaths in the world of entertainment that create brief searches for meaning among their fans. After one ...

World Famous Guitarist Finds Real Purpose

Christopher Parkening, considered to be the world's greatest classical guitarist, achieved his musical dreams by the age of thirty. By then he was ...

Busier Than Thou

An article on Quartz begins, "In an era of limitless technology and information, life can feel at once empowering and overwhelming—especially ...

Famous Painter Haunted by 'God Questions'

The lonely artist had made up his mind. Today was the day he would end it all for good. He climbed the tropically wooded hill behind his Tahitian hut, ...

The 'Murti-Bing Pill' Helped a Nation Escape Reality

During the height of Marxism in Eastern Europe, the Polish poet Czeslaw Milosz (pronounced Ches-wav Me-wosh) explained how so many intelligent people ...

Researchers Urge Us to Accept 'Good Stress'

Research has revealed that a certain kind of stress is good for us. Kelly McGonigal, a researcher at Stanford University, argues that challenges and difficulties ...