Why We Become So Attached to Our Belongings

Our excessively materialistic culture has not gone unnoticed by researchers. Journalist and author Francine Russo offers a roundup of the primary research ...

Crossfit Is My Church

A 2012 Pew study tracked the rise of a new religious group: the “nones,” or the religiously unaffiliated. One-fifth of Americans—and ...

Football Is Tom Brady's Religion

Tom Brady, quarterback for the New England Patriots, is on a spiritual quest.

Football has become Brady’s religion, said Gotham Chopra, a filmmaker ...

Does Success and Fame Fill Our Emptiness?

Does wealth, fame, and success fill the emptiness in the human heart? Two contemporary celebrities who seemed to have everything have shared a similar ...

Study Debunks 'Find Your Passion' Advice

Americans love to say things like "follow your passion," "pursue your dreams," or "do what you love and love what you do." ...

Yale's Most Popular Class Ever: Happiness

The most popular course in the history of Yale University was offered in the fall of 2017—PSYCH 157: Psychology and the Good Life. Nearly one-fourth ...

Object Lesson Compares Human Life to Eternity

Phil Cooke and Jonathan Bock share in their recent book that author and speaker Francis Chan has the best illustration of eternity that they've ever seen. ...

Searching for Elusive Treasure

Last summer, 53-year-old Jeff Murphy was hiking in Yellowstone National Park when he disappeared. Park investigators found his body on June 9, where Murphy ...

Robin Williams Discovered that Work Is No Solace

Robin Williams's August 2014 suicide was devastating to those who knew him best—and it also came at the end of a long and difficult decline. According ...

Max Lucado Temporarily Lost the Joy of the Lord

Author and Pastor Max Lucado recently reflected on his experience of losing the joy of the Lord to a spirit of gadgets and gauges. Lucado said:

For years ...