High-Tech Way to Cope with Death

A South Korean virtual reality (VR) company has recently undertaken the challenging task of reuniting a mother with her deceased daughter in VR. Jang ...

The Church Is the Conscience of the State

"The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the ...

The Power of Touch for NBA Teams

Dr. Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology and the scientific adviser for Pixar's film Inside Out, claims that human touch is the "the foundations ...

Brainwashed by Jesus or the World?

A friend of mine described the reaction when he went home, as a young teenager, and announced to his mother that he'd become a Christian. Alarmed, she ...

Warnings About Sharks and Hell

British evangelist Rico Tice says, "Loving people means warning people." He illustrates with the following personal story:

I was once in Australia ...

Pot, Selfies, and Facebook—Welcome to the New Individualism

After analyzing a new Pew survey, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat claims that we're in a new and deeper "age of individualism." In ...

Walls Keep People Out and Drive Us Crazy

Human beings have always been preoccupied with building walls. In the first century, the Roman emperor Hadrian built a 75-mile wall across Roman Britain. ...

Michelangelo's Final Work Didn't Achieve Greatness

Michelangelo's final work was called Rondanini Pietà, on which he worked for ten years. Giorgio Vasari, a contemporary of Michelangelo, wrote ...

Judgment for a Crime Measured by the One Against Whom It Is Committed

Colin Smith addresses people who object to God's judgment on sin:

You may say, "Wait a minute. How can any sin deserve everlasting destruction? ...

David Brooks on Our Need for Relationships

[The 19th century English poet] Samuel Taylor Coleridge described how his own [son], then three-years-old, awoke in the night and called to his mother. ...