Humans Prefer to Sin Unobserved

Dallas Willard writes about a 2-and-a-half-year-old girl in her backyard who one day discovered the secret to making mud (which she called "warm ...

Children Who Can Delay Gratification Become More Successful

Around 1970, Walter Mischel launched a classic experiment. He left a succession of 4-year-olds in a room with a bell and a marshmallow. If they rang the ...

Laura Bush on Abstinence

During her 2006 trip to West Africa, First Lady Laura Bush said:

"I'm always a little bit irritated when I hear the criticism of abstinence, because ...

Man's Coffin Designed for Pornography

A Russian man named Vladimir Villisov specially designed his own coffin to accommodate his vast collection of pornography. "The girls in those magazines ...

Choices Breed Dissatisfaction

Author Bill Bryson noticed many changes when he returned to America after spending 20 years overseas. One observation he made involved the amount of choices ...

Poem Illustrates Human Nature

In a poem entitled, "Autobiography in Five Short Chapters," Portia Nelson writes these words:

Chapter I: I walk down the street. There is a deep hole ...

Python Explodes After Swallowing an Alligator

Wildlife researcher Michael Barron was making his way through Florida's Everglades National Park when he stumbled onto a gruesome demonstration of ...

"Fever Pitch": Passionate Commitment

Fever Pitch, is the romantic comedy about one man's obsession with his favorite baseball team, the Boston Red Sox, and how that obsession comes between ...

Hurricane Katrina Unleashes Human Nature

Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast throughout the last week of August, 2005—destroying buildings, flooding cities, and leaving millions ...

"The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" Illustrates Sin's Effect

In The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the character, Edmund Pevensie, personifies gluttony, the sin of excessively using things in themselves legitimate, ...