Crowd Pressure Influences “Home Field Advantage”

Sports fans around the world can rely on one fact about their sport: the home team wins more often than the visiting team. A 2011 Sports Illustrated article ...

We Imitate What We Admire or Worship

G. K. Beale writes in “We Become What We Worship”:

When my two daughters, Hannah and Nancy, were about two- or three- years-old, I noticed ...

Businessman Kicks Shady Dealer Out of His Office

Pastor Steve May shared the following in a sermon:

Years ago I was involved in a business meeting in which one of our clients tried to persuade my boss ...

The Power of Renaming Things

In 1977, fish merchant Lee Lantz traveled to Chile and "discovered" the toothfish, a species the locals deemed too oily to eat. Thirty years ...

Man Encounters Lazy Shoe Repair Shop

I read a story in the L. A. Times a long time ago. A guy goes to the house where he grew up and knocks on the door. Because he hadn't been there for ...

Michael Jordan Shreds Gear

If any athlete was known for focus, it was Michael Jordan. In Jordan's book, Driven from Within, Fred Whitfield, president and chief operating officer ...

Sheryl Crow Embraces Multiple Religions

I believe in God. I believe in Jesus and Buddha and Mohammed and all those that were enlightened. I wouldn't say necessarily that I'm a strict ...

Christians Struggle with Opposing Desires

We want to be a saint, but we also want to feel every sensation experienced by sinners; we want to be innocent and pure, but we also want to be experienced ...

Husband Realizes His Own Selfishness

Dave Goet z writes in Death by Suburb:

I've asked my wife through the years to support me in different ventures. When we were first married, I was ...

City Slicker Brands His Cattle to Death

A New York family bought a ranch out West where they intended to raise cattle. Friends visited and asked if the ranch had a name. "Well," said the would-be ...