Expert Claims Loneliness Seeps into Our Whole Body

John Cacioppo, the director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, is the world's leading expert on loneliness. ...

Fire Ants Float by Becoming One Super-organism

For years scientists were baffled by the mystery of floating fire ants. When placed in water, an individual fire ant will flounder, struggle, and then ...

What Church Membership Looks Like

In his book The Pastor, Eugene Peterson describes his wife Jan's understanding of what it means to be a pastor's wife. As I read Peterson's ...

Psychiatrist Identifies the "Gauntlet of Silence" Among Men

In his book Invisible Men, Dr. Michael E. Addis tells the story about meeting a middle-aged man named Patrick. Although by all accounts Patrick was an ...

Worshipping with People We Didn't Hand-Pick

Writer and NPR commentator Heather King, a recovering alcoholic who has come to faith in Christ, reflected on her initial experience with the church:

My ...

The Epidemic of Loneliness at Christmas Time

A British medical doctor named Ishani Kar-Purkayastha shared a story about his interaction with Doris, an 82-year-old hospital patient. Two days before ...

A Family Outing to the Apple Orchard: The Ideal Versus the Real

In a sermon, Stewart Ruch said:

In family life and in church life, there's always a huge gap between the ideal and the real. For example, every autumn ...

U.S. Marine Lieutenant Leads by Example

At the age of 23, Second Lieutenant Karl Marlantes was in charge of 40 marines during an intense battle in the Vietnam War. Marlantes had moved his men ...

Onlookers Band Together to Save Man from Burning Car

On September 12, 2011, Brandon Wright, a 21-year-old Utah State University student, was driving his motorcycle en route to the school's computer lab ...

Brazilian Leader Provides a Lesson on Friendship

Pastor Michael Woodruff recalls:

Americans are good at many things, but being friends and sharing life is not one of them. Our iconic figures—the ...