J. I. Packer on Leisure

We should "choose the leisure activities that bring us closest to God, to people, to beauty, and to all that ennobles." –J. I. Packer

Bringing Our Souls to Work

Tim J. McGuire, former editor of the Minneapolis Star Tribune and former president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, speaking at a seminar ...

Living Fast-Paced Lives

A Tacoma, Washington, newspaper carried the story of Tattoo the basset hound. Tattoo didn't intend to go for an evening run, but when his owner shut ...

Turning to Panic Rooms for Security

In the movie Panic Room Jodie Foster plays a woman who is frightened by burglars who have broken into her New York City condo. She retreats with her daughter ...

Working to Death

Sherman James, an epidemiologist [someone who researches epidemic diseases] at the University of Michigan, describes a personality type named John Henryism. ...

Rest Is Productive Too

The story is told of two men who had the tiring job of clearing a field of trees. The contract called for them to be paid per tree.

Bill wanted the day ...

George Clooney's Insomnia

In Men's Journal, writer Doug Stanton talks about actor George Clooney's obsession with work:

"Most of the time," [Clooney] says, "I ...

Humility Brings Rest

Give me humility, in which alone is rest, and deliver me from pride, which is the heaviest of burdens.

Idol of Exhaustion

I do not mean to make an idol of health, but it does seem to me that at least some of us have made an idol of exhaustion. The only time we know we have ...

Need for Rest

In The Twenty Four Hour Society, Martin Moore-Ede says our most notorious industrial accidents in recent years—Exxon Valdez, Three Mile Island, ...