Ronda Rousey's Identity in Winning

Sports Illustrated had named Rhonda Rousey the "world's most dominant athlete." And she had had quite a run at that point: the first US woman ever to ...

App Designer Explains How We Get Hooked

How do Silicon Valley tech gurus design a successful app, an app that will hook consumers and then keep them hooked so they keep coming back to the app? ...

Worship No Other Gods—Except Celebrities

A few research psychologists have looked into the relationship between religiosity and celebrity worship. The team, consisting of a researcher from England ...

Passengers Love Their Bags More Than Life

On Tuesday, September 8th, 2015, a British Airways jet caught fire at the Las Vegas airport, sending smoke billowing into the air, after suffering what ...

Award Given to Frivolous Research Projects

Every September, 1,100 well-dressed guests gather at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre, a building crafted with ornate woodwork and golden pillars, ...

Tim Keller: Christ's Love as Only a Concept

Tim Keller writes:

Many years ago, in my first pastorate, I met with a teenage girl in our congregation. She was about sixteen at the time, and she was ...

Modern Marriages Loaded with Ridiculously High Expectations

In a popular TED talk titled "The secret to desire in a long-term relationship," psychotherapist Esther Perel, who has counseled hundreds of ...

Broken People Praying to a Broken Buddha

Pastor/author J.R. Vassar writes about ministering in Myanmar (Burma) and coming upon a broken Buddha:

One day we were prayer walking through a large Buddhist ...

Landon Donovan on the Fickleness of Praise

Former pro soccer star Landon Donavan was the standard-bearer of American soccer for more than a decade. When Donovan was growing up in California, he ...

The High Value on Becoming Famous

The drive to become famous is becoming a high value for many people in our culture. That's the conclusion of two social observers. In a speech, New ...