Harvard Debate Team Upset by Surprise Contenders

Months after winning a national title, Harvard's debate team faced their toughest opponent yet—a group of prison inmates from New York. An article ...

The Necessity of Sadness

A fascinating article on Christianity Today about Pixar's film Inside Out reminds us that sadness is also a necessary (but sometimes lost) part of ...

Documentary Records Insecurities of Young Men

For the documentary "The Mask You Live In," a scene shows a U.S. school teacher giving a group of high school boys a circular piece of paper. ...

Actor Nick Nolte's Advice on Failure

When asked by GQ magazine about the best advice he has to offer, actor Nick Nolte said,

This is going to sound strange, but my best advice is to accept ...

The Tennis Star Who Hated Tennis

When Andre Agassi's memoir came out, the key revelation of the book was this: Andre Agassi—a former number one ranked player in the world, winner ...

'Fatigue Flaw' Leads to Airline Crash

On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232 was cruising blandly along on autopilot at thirty-seven thousand feet a seven-foot number one fan disk broke ...

Robin Williams on the Power of Addiction

On August 11, 2014, the actor Robin Williams took his own life. The 63-year-old actor, who was loved by many fans and fellow actors, was an admitted abuser ...

Dad Sees People Need His 'Special Needs' Son

Greg Lucas writes about taking his special-needs son, Jake, to his annual dentist appointment. After a particularly challenging visit, Jake was afraid ...

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 ...

The Foolishness of the Cross vs. Love of Power

Historian Garret Fagan summarizes how the Romans—the culture encountered by the early church—viewed the values of strength and weakness:

Ideas ...