The Puzzle of Bad Living

The puzzle is why so many people live so badly. Not so wickedly but so inanely. Not so cruelly but so stupidly. There's little to admire and less ...

Hollywood's Influence, Our Responsibility

Even if we personally avoid the movie industry products, those products will have an ongoing impact on both the dreams and the fears of our culture. ...

The Person of the 90s

Lee Strobel offers a unique perspective on life in the 90s: If you really are a person of the 90s: ...

You feel like life is whizzing past you at 90 miles ...

The Prevalence of Peer Pressure

More than a hundred years ago, Soren Kierkegaard warned that the age of the crowd was upon us. In such an age, said Kierkegaard, people would not think ...

Toxic Waste

TV is not just a vast wasteland; it is a toxic-waste dump. The problem isn't that nothing is there; that would be bad enough. The problem is that ...

A More Dangerous Stroll

We're so smart in America we can walk on the moon, but it's not safe to walk in the park.

A Peaceful Existence

My wife and I were taking a bus trip through the mountains, and the bus broke down right in front of a hillbilly grocery store. The woman there had never ...

Packaged Truth

Were he still broadcasting, Walter Cronkite might end his newscast with "and that's the way we say it is" to better represent the tenor ...

The Generation of the Self

While evangelicals reject "unbiblical Narcissism," there is little remorse today for the sinful self; prime concern centers, rather, on self-potential, ...

Replacing Success with Service

Writer Philip Yancey notes that toward the end of his life, Albert Einstein removed the portraits of two scientists--Newton and Maxwell--from his wall. ...