Pluralism Is Like a Sport without Rules

I love sports. But here is a sporting experience I would never want to have. Imagine being thrown into a game without knowing when it started, when it ...

Job Applicant Sacrificed Integrity for Money

In his book Every Good Endeavor, Pastor Tim Keller provides the following helpful illustration:

At twenty-seven years old, Howard was given an opportunity ...

Paul McCartney Still Has Something to Prove

In an interview with Esquire Magazine, former Beatles star Paul McCartney, now aged 75 (as of 2017), was asked if he felt that he still had something ...

Millennials Are Choosing Pizza, Push-Ups, and Video Games Over Church

The New York Post recently stated, "Millennials Are Choosing Pizza, Push-Ups and Video Games Over Church." The article quoted a NYU professor ...

Hidden Camera Catches Man Yielding to Social Pressure

On August 10, 1948, a pioneering television producer named Allen Funt debuted a hidden-camera reality TV show called Candid Camera. The genius of the ...

'National Geographic' on Why We Lie

In the fall of 1989 Princeton University welcomed into its freshman class a young man named Alexi Santana, whose life story the admissions committee had ...

Evidence Shows Money isn't the Key to Happiness

The 2015 American Freshman Survey asked thousands of incoming students about their goals and aspirations. The highest proportion (81.9 percent) checked ...

Youth Feel Pressured to Maintain Happiness Façade

Donna Freitas in her thought-provoking book The Happiness Effect, argues that the real downside of social media is that it demands fake happiness. She ...

In the Time Spent on Social Media You Could Read 200 Books

In an article on Quartz, author Charles Chu claims, "In the time you spend on social media each year, you could read 200 books." Here's how the math behind ...

The Internet Trains Us toward Superficial Thinking

Nicholas Carr, an expert on how technology is shaping our minds and lives, lamented how the Internet is, in his words, "chipping away at [his] capacity ...