Contemporary Thinkers Attempt to Define Marriage

In his book The Future of Marriage, David Blankenhorn has culled the following contemporary attempts to define marriage:

• "Marriage is, more than anything else, the expression of love" (George Easterbrook of the New Republic).

Young Woman Longs for Honest Love, Not Just Self-Esteem

Christian psychologist Mark McMinn recounts a story about meeting a young woman in his church who had recently come to Christ.

She described her childhood ...

Journalist Finds One Universal Joke: Making Fun of Others

Lance Morrow, an award-winning journalist with Time magazine, once set out to write an article asking if there was one universal joke, told everywhere ...

David Brooks on Our Need for Relationships

[The 19th century English poet] Samuel Taylor Coleridge described how his own [son], then three-years-old, awoke in the night and called to his mother. ...

Fred Rogers ("Mr. Rogers") Created Rather Than Complained

In a moving tribute to Fred Rogers, Jonathon Merritt recounts how Rogers chose to reform society through his gentle and persistent influence on a children's ...

Human "Love Hormone" Only Goes So Far

Scientists have identified a specific, love-inducing, trust-building chemical called Oxytocin. Psychologists refer to it as the "hormone of love." ...

Columnist David Brooks Reflects on Overconfidence

"We're an overconfident species," contends New York Times columnist David Brooks. Brooks calls it a "magnification of the self," ...

Arnold Schwarzenegger Admits Frailty and Denial

In April, 2011, Newsweek magazine featured an article about Arnold Schwarzenegger, movie star and former governor of California. Here are some of the ...

Stanford Psychiatrist on the Dangers of Internet Use

A new book by a Stanford psychiatrist provides a sober warning about how our use of the internet is making us more angry, selfish, and impatient. In his ...

Navy SEALs Succeed by Focusing on Others

The elite team of Navy SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden on May 1, 2011, is still largely shrouded in mystery. But in a recent article in The Wall Street ...