When 'the Beautiful Game' Turns Ugly

The Economist reports that over half of humanity will watch at least part of the World Cup. You might disagree with soccer's designation as "the ...

Watch Counts Down Time Left Before Death

The Tikker is a wristwatch that counts down your life so you can make every second count. The Tikker allows you to watch as a dot-matrix screen displays ...

Susan Sarandon Rejects Church but Fears Death

In an interview, actress and social activist Susan Sarandon talked about having long-given up on "organized religion." Sarandon who "nurtures ...

Film 'Gravity': 'Nobody Ever Taught Me to Pray'

In the movie Gravity, veteran astronaut Matt Kowalski (played by George Clooney) is in charge of the Shuttle Explorer's STS-157 mission to repair ...

Life-sized Dolls Illustrate Grief and Loss

We've all experienced the loss of loved ones. Family, friends, neighbors, valuable members of our community taken by death, or perhaps simply having ...

Kay Warren's Advice for Comforting Grievers

Rick and Kay Warren's son Matthew committed suicide at the age of 27 after a long struggle with mental illness. About a year after his death, Kay ...

Pop Culture's Zombie Craze Reflects Death-Fears

An article in the Wall Street Journal says, "By all observable metrics, zombies are totally hot right now." Another article claims that zombies ...

Tim Keller: The Resurrection Will Restore All Things

Tim Keller tells the following story:

When my wife was growing up, every summer her family spent two weeks at a small compound of cottages on the shores ...

The Shortest and Longest Living Animal

There is a cave in New Zealand that has an unusual species of glowworms. The inside of the cave is lit up (it's an extraordinary sight) by thousands ...

Johnny Depp on Death and Meaning

In an interview with Rolling Stone Johnny Depp magazine said:

I went around for years thinking, "Well, what's it all for? All this stuff that ...