Weary Immigrants Meet by Phone for Virtual Church

The New York Times ran an article about Chinese immigrants in the United States who meet by phone at night for worship and fellowship. More than one hundred ...

Principal Uses FaceTime to Read to Students on School Bus in Snowstorm

A principal from the Lower Moreland School District took action to keep students calm when their bus was stuck in terrible traffic due to a snowstorm. ...

The Bible's High View of Singleness

In her book The Significance of Singleness, Christina Hitchcock writes:

A journalist named Kate Bolick wrote an article for The Atlantic magazine looking ...

Can Artificial Intelligence Provide Intimacy?

MIT professor Dr. Sherry Turkle tells the following story:

Years ago I spoke with a 16-year-old girl who was considering the idea of having a computer ...

Lonely Man Asks Pornographer for 'You Are Loved' Video

An episode on the podcast "The Butterfly Effect" tells the story about a couple named Dan and Rhiannon who run a company that provides what's ...

Suspicious Neighbor Calls 911 on Legislator Visiting Constituents

A local lawmaker running for re-election was going door-to-door to check in with members in her district when she got a surprise visit from a local deputy. ...

Christians Creating Community in Apartment Complexes

Phil Cooke and Jonathan Bock write that in 1997, Stan Dobbs left a career in the computer industry and packed up for seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. While ...

What the Amish Can Teach Us About Community

For the past 100 years the Amish have resisted new technological advancements like the television and the automobile. But during the same time they've ...

Loneliness Is an Epidemic with Physical Impact

Researchers created a banal scenario: a group of people would play a frivolous game of catch, tossing the ball to one another to pass the time, trying ...

US Surgeon General Says Loneliness Is Health Care Crisis

From 2014 to 2017 Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States. From this vantage point he identified one of the ...