Small Town Embittered by Anonymous Gossip

In September 2011, The New York Times ran an article about a small town in Missouri called Mountain Grove. Gossip and rumors have always existed in this ...

Research Shows Our Favoritism Towards Attractive People

Although we like to believe that beauty runs only skin deep, research shows that it pays to be good-looking. A survey by Newsweek concluded, "In ...

Steve Jobs on the Power of Death to Help Us Live Now

Steve Jobs shares:

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly ...

Secular Reporter Praises the Work of Evangelicals

In 2011 New York Times editorialist Nicholas Kristof wrote a column praising the work of many evangelical Christians. Kristof begins by noting that at ...

The TV Show "Hoarders" Exposes Our Misplaced Affections

The TV show "Hoarders" features the true stories about people with compulsions so strong that they can't let go of their "stuff." ...

Creation Care Is a Biblical Issue

Like most trends, going green has become a source of pride …. According to the Institute for Grocery Distribution, nearly 70 percent of today's ...

Former Royal Sarah Ferguson Aims to Get Herself Right

Sarah Ferguson is an English ex-royal. Commonly called "Fergie" and well known to readers of tabloids, the red-haired former Duchess of York ...

Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola on Taking Risks

"An essential element of art is risk. If you don't take risks, how are you going to make something really beautiful that hasn't been seen ...

Parents Who Worry Too Much About Their Kids Self-Esteem

In an article in The Atlantic titled "How the Cult of Self-Esteem Is Ruining Our Kids," therapist Lori Gottlieb observes a growing trend: parents ...

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).