'Stealth Secularism' Hooks Us Through Stories

Christian apologist Nancy Pearcey uses the following story to show how "stealth secularism" can bypass our critical grid and hook us emotionally:

In the ...

Nearly Half of Americans Ashamed of Debt

There is, apparently, a stigma attached to carrying credit card debt. More than a third of Americans say they would be embarrassed to let others know ...

Accident Victims Happier Than Lottery Winners

In 2010 The New Yorker magazine summarized the findings of an earlier study published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. The researchers ...

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 ...

Billionaire Tweets About His Emptiness

In 2014, software giant Microsoft paid $2.5 billion to acquire Mojang AB, the Swedish company that created the worldwide gaming sensation Minecraft. The ...

Ship Stuffed with Gold Sinks Off Wales Coast

On the 25th of October in 1859, the steam clipper Royal Charter rounded the island of Anglesey off the coast of Wales on what was supposed to be the celebratory ...

Envy Leads to Man's Downfall

Through a Rotary Club sponsored program, Clayton Lush had built schools at villages in the Solomon Islands. He also hosted a Christmas carols show for ...

Researcher Claims Credit Cards Make Us Forgetful

In the early 1990s, a behavioral scientist at the University of Chicago named Dilip Soman set out to study the effects of consumer credit, on the human ...

You Can't Take It with You … (Chevy Edition)

During his five decades running a Chevrolet dealership in Nebraska, Ray Lambrecht held onto his customers' trade-ins (and quite a few new models too), ...

The Story Behind the Self-Storage Movement

In the 1960s Jim Knuppe was building apartments in the Bay Area around San Francisco. Apartments are cramped and usually do not have garages, and Mr. ...