Inside the Joy

While attending a 2008 awards presentation at the Strathmore Music Center, a concert hall just outside of Washington, D.C., author Mark Gauvreau Judge ...

Importing the Idol of Consumerism

David Livermore writes in Serving with Eyes Wide Open:

My friend Ashish came from Northern India to visit me in Chicago. We were eating at Gino's Pizzeria ...

The Irony of Television

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your house.

—David Frost, English ...

Reasons for Image Obsession Among Girls

In an article for Psychology Today magazine, Hara Marano writes about the constant pressure girls face concerning their image. Deprived of an internal ...

Praying Against the Consequences of Sin

Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

—Fred Allen, U.S. ...

Research on Honesty and Deceit

In 2008, New York Magazine ran a comprehensive article about research concerning kids and lying. In one study researchers gathered a group of children ...

The Fire of a Spiritual Awakening

I doubt if there is a problem—political or economic—that will not melt before the fire of a spiritual awakening.

—President Franklin ...

The Problem with Peacemakers

Peacemakers are honored insofar as they speak about peace as something already victoriously won that we can celebrate as part of our glorious past or ...

"Affluenza": Swollen Expectations

Affluenza is an hour-long PBS documentary about consumerism and its harmful effects on the family, the community, and the environment.

The clip begins ...

Gradual Secularization

Unlike Israel's exile, our process of secularization is not clearly marked by a hostile takeover. We are losing the land by way of a thousand little ...