Actor Ben Affleck Reflects on Our Brokenness

In an interview in The New York Times, award-winning actor Ben Affleck reflected on the pressure to hide our broken areas. When he watches other movies ...

Tom Hanks on the Fear of Faking It

In his film (2016), A Hologram for the King, Tom Hanks plays a middle-aged American businessman who is sent to Saudi Arabia for a special project. The ...

The Law Can't Set Us Free to Play

Imagine you are twelve years old again, and you love baseball. All your heroes are baseball players, all your extracurricular time is spent either with ...

Psychologists Identify the 'Imposter Syndrome'

In 1978, two American psychologists, Pauline Clance and Suzanne Imes, observed what they called "the impostor syndrome." They described it as ...

Must-Have Christmas Gifts by Year

The website Statistic Brain has tracked the "must-have Christmas gift" for the past few decades.

In 1983 everyone had to have a cabbage patch ...

Gratitude Is the Natural Response of a Rescue

Imagine you fall off the side of an ocean liner and, not knowing how to swim, begin to drown. Someone on the deck spots you, flailing in the water and ...

Musician Jerry Lee Lewis Ponders the Afterlife

"Jerry Lee Lewis makes no apologies for his life," said Simon Hattenstone in The Guardian newspaper. He was described as "the rock 'n ...

Actor Rob Lowe on Karma

"I try to hold on to the things I believe to be good and true. Good things happen to good people. Karma is real. There is a larger, better plan for ...

A Surprise Invitation to Baseball Hall of Fame

Skye Jethani uses the following personal story to illustrate the beauty of God as a Trinity, a party of love and goodness and power:

Have you ever found ...

Man Tries to Outspend His Gift Card

John Zahl writes in "A Gift (Certificate) That Never Expires”:

A few years ago, a friend and the owner of a local high-end department store ...