The Advantages of Material Success

Undoubtedly people feel those who have made it in the marketplace have more of everything to contribute.

Communication Postures

When men and women speak, they say as much with their postures as with their words, observes communication theorist Deborah Tannen:

Differences in physical ...

We Are Like the Moon

Men are like the earth and we are like the moon; we turn always one side to them and they think there is no other.

The Folly of Human Assumptions

A traveler, between flights at an airport, went to a lounge and bought a small package of cookies. Then she sat down and began reading a newspaper. Gradually, ...

It's What's Inside that Counts

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

God Uses Broken Things

God uses broken things. Broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the ...

Shortcomings of Television

Television relies for its effectiveness on tricks, not perceptiveness, complete with canned laughter, studio applause, and special effects--a medium fated ...

Faith Blossoms on the Other Side

A certain lady loved flowers and plants. She planted a rare vine against the stone wall near the back of her yard. She nurtured it, and it grew well. ...

Peanuts on Inner Peace

I saw a Peanuts cartoon with Lucy saying to Charlie Brown, "I hate everything. I hate everybody. I hate the whole wide world!"

Charlie says, ...

The Wisdom of the Cross

I used to struggle with [overconfident intelligentsia] while living in Boston. I would leave the town of Lexington, where my family and I lived, and I ...