Woman Dismayed to Learn Plant She Tended is Plastic

Caelie Wilkes was proud of her little succulent plant. But just when she was ready to take the next step in caring for it, she realized her efforts were ...

Marriage is Not a Magical Fantasy

People magazine reports that congrats are in order again for Justin Bieber and his wife, Hailey Baldwin. The couple retied the knot, on September 30th, ...

A Coach Improves Tiny Things by One Percent

British Cycling was in a desperate situation. Since 1908, British riders had won just a single Olympic gold medal. Their performance was so bad that a ...

For Elite NBA Players, Pressure is Biggest Opponent

By the time an elite player ascends to the NBA, that player has hoisted an almost incalculable number of shots, both in games and in practice. One would ...

The Upside of Stress

Researchers at Stanford and Florida State University asked a broad sample of US adults, ages eighteen through seventy-eight, to rate how much they agreed ...

Suffering – A Path to Greater Godliness

In his blog, Randy Alcorn discusses why God allows suffering in the lives of his people:

Mountain climbers could save time and energy if they reached the ...

The Domino Chain Reaction of Faith

In Chase the Lion, Mark Batterson writes that in 1983 Lorne Whitehead published an article about the domino chain reaction. You can picture it in your ...

Famous Musician's Wisdom on Marriage

The singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen (a Jew who seemed to have an interest in the person of Jesus Christ) once called marriage "the hottest furnace ...

Old Trees don't Get Taller, They Bulk Up like a Bodybuilder

Old trees may not grow taller every year, but they do keep bulking up—like a human bodybuilder. That's the summary of recent research into the ...

Screenwriter Challenges Secularism and Atheism

Do Christians just have faith in God because we need a source of comfort? In an interview for Los Angeles Review of Books, Hollywood screenwriter Dorothy ...