Heart Attack Victims Find Meaning in Trial

It's hard to find meaning in the midst of tragedy. But in her book The How of Happiness, researcher Sonja Lyubomirsky shows that people who find some ...

Tim Keller on Our Riches in Christ

Imagine you're a billionaire, and you have three ten-dollar bills in your wallet. You get out of a cab, and you hand the driver one of the bills for ...

Tangled Web: When a ‘Solution’ is More Dangerous than the Problem.

Some silly people are terrified of spiders. If you're one of them, then a recent story from the New York Times is for you. Apparently, a Seattle man ...

Navy Seal Admiral Advises Don't Fear 'Circuses'

Admiral William H. McRaven, a 36-year Navy SEAL veteran, gave the commencement address to the Class of 2014 at the University of Texas in Austin. He titled ...

We Want Happiness but Suffering Forms Us

We live in a culture awash in talk about happiness. In one three-month period, more than 1,000 books were released on Amazon on that subject.

But notice ...

Author Tries to Find a "Cure" for His Anxiety

In an article in The Atlantic magazine, Scott Stossel shares openly about his lifelong attempts to deal with the anguish of anxiety. From an early age ...

How Shepherds Submerge Their Sheep in Antiseptic

British shepherds often take sheep and rams, one by one, and throw them into a dipping trough, a huge vat filled with an antiseptic liquid. The shepherd ...

Man Miraculously Rescued from Capsized Ship

On May 26, 2013 at 4:30 A.M. the Jascon 4, one of three tugboats towing an oil freighter off the coast of Nigeria, started to sink. Harrison Odjegba Okene, ...

National "Get Over It" Day

Letting go and moving on is a difficult, painful process. Bad relationships, bad decisions—we tend to revisit the moments when we were not-so-smart ...

Persecuted Nigerian Pastor Praises God

The Nigerian city of Jos sits on Africa's great fault line between the Muslim north and Christian, and thus has faced terrible things in recent years. ...