Award Given to Frivolous Research Projects

Every September, 1,100 well-dressed guests gather at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre, a building crafted with ornate woodwork and golden pillars, ...

Tim Keller: Christ's Love as Only a Concept

Many years ago, in my first pastorate, I met with a teenage girl in our congregation. She was about sixteen at the time, and she was discouraged and becoming ...

Modern Marriages Loaded with Ridiculously High Expectations

In a popular TED talk titled "The secret to desire in a long-term relationship," psychotherapist Esther Perel, who has counseled hundreds of couples who ...

Selfie Mania at a Baseball Game

Editor's Note: Here are two illustrations with basically the same theme. Use one or both of them.

This is the age of the selfie. People love to see themselves ...

The Temptation of the Buddha-Mummy

Deep in our hearts, the dark part of us wants to be worshiped and adored. We desire power, attention, fame, praise, and many other things that are God's ...

Broken People Praying to a Broken Buddha

Pastor/author J.R. Vassar writes about ministering in Myanmar (Burma) and coming upon a broken Buddha:

One day we were prayer walking through a large Buddhist ...

Landon Donovan on the Fickleness of Praise

Former pro soccer star Landon Donavan was the standard-bearer of American soccer for more than a decade. When Donovan was growing up in California, he ...

The High Value on Becoming Famous

The drive to become famous is becoming a high value for many people in our culture. That's the conclusion of two social observers. In a recent (2014) ...

World War 2 'Cargo Cults'—Faith Without Power

Natives of the islands of the South West Pacific had very little, if any, contact with the modern world and its many technological advances. So during ...

Yoga Instructor Urges Trust in the Goddess within You

Yoga Journal is a popular American magazine that has almost two million monthly readers. A recent article by Sally Kempton, an internationally recognized ...