Psychiatrists Identify 'The Paris Effect'

Psychiatrists call it "The Paris Effect." It simply means the disappointment that many first-time visitors to Paris experience after hyped up ...

Billionaire Tweets About His Emptiness

In 2014, software giant Microsoft paid $2.5 billion to acquire Mojang AB, the Swedish company that created the worldwide gaming sensation Minecraft. The ...

Busier Than Thou

An article on Quartz begins, "In an era of limitless technology and information, life can feel at once empowering and overwhelming—especially ...

Judd Apatow: Success Can't Heal You

In an interview with Rolling Stone, director Judd Apatow responded to the interviewer's statement: "You've said that as an entertainer, all ...

Michael Jordan's Victory Without His Father

A.J. Swoboda writes in his book “The Glorious Dark”:

People of my generation are like Michael Jordan.

I vividly recall watching one of Jordan's ...

Actress Jennifer Lawrence on Her Anxiety

The actress Jennifer Lawrence, famous for her role in The Hunger Games films, has had a long battle with anxiety and insecurity. In a 2014 interview, ...

Bob Dylan Reflects on the Nature of Happiness

In an interview in AARP magazine, singer and poet Bob Dylan talked about his new music, life on the road, and true happiness. Towards the end of the interview ...

The Quiet but Deep Influence of Jesus' Life

In some ways, our biggest challenge in gauging Jesus' influence is that we take for granted the ways in which our world has been shaped by him. For ...

We Can't Have 'Ordinary' Experiences Anymore

Joe Queenan, writer for the New York Times and GQ, criticizes what he calls our culture's "inability to accept the ordinary." Queenan says ...

Apollo 13 Blackout vs. 400 Years of Silence

To illustrate the 400-years of silence prior to the coming of Jesus, Del Tackett compares it to the Apollo 13 incident. On the evening of April 13, when ...