Hopelessly Hooked on Media

Americans spend an average of five and a half hours a day with digital media, more than half of that time on mobile devices, according to the research ...

What Actors Have Done to Prepare for a Role

For her role in Black Swan, Natalie Portman trained with New York City Ballet dancer Mary Helen Bowers for eight hours a day, six days a week for the ...

One Woman's 1,000-Day Journey

CNN recently featured the story of a woman who went for a rather long stroll—a walk that lasted 1,000 days and "took her through two continents, ...

Worship No Other Gods—Except Celebrities

A few research psychologists have looked into the relationship between religiosity and celebrity worship. The team, consisting of a researcher from England ...

Loving God Only For His 'Trust Fund'

Tim Keller uses the following scenario to illustrate how we can sometimes love God just for the good stuff he's "supposed" to give us (based on our terms, ...

Mozart Worked Hard to Be Creative

In 1815, Germany's General Music Journal published a letter in which allegedly Mozart described his creative process:

When I am, as it were, completely ...

Worshipping God: Duty or Delight?

In a recent TV commercial a young man is struggling with whether to go through with an arranged marriage. In his home country arranged marriages were ...

NASA Space Shuttle's Point of 'Negative Return'

To illustrate Christ's call to discipleship, Pastor Tommy Hinson shared that on some evenings, he and his son, Riley, enjoy watching YouTube videos of ...

Your Time in the Sun/Son

There is a new app that calculates your sunburn risk. You fill in your region, enter your skin type, and say whether you are wearing sunscreen or not. ...

Young Man Dies Trying to Save His Cell Phone

In January 2014 a 26-year-old man died after he fell into the frigid waters of the Chicago River. Shortly after midnight, Ken Hoang, a visitor from St. ...