Jail Becomes Luxury Hotel

Boston's Charles Street jail used to be home to the city's most notorious characters. Among its former inmates was Frank Abagnale, Jr., the con artist ...

Children Play with a Bomb

Children will play with virtually anything they get their hands on. It's no surprise, then, that when Dutch children in the town of Barneveld uncovered ...

Nature Helps Depression

America is swimming in a sea of Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil! In 2006 alone, over 190 million prescriptions were given for antidepressants. The swim is a ...

Confusing Work, Play, and Worship

Earlier in this century, someone claimed that we work at our play and play at our work. Today the confusion has deepened: we worship our work, work at ...

Statistics on America's Down Time

Percentage of adults who participated in the following leisure activities at least once in the previous 12 months:

Dining out: 48.3 percent

Entertaining ...

J. I. Packer on Leisure

We should "choose the leisure activities that bring us closest to God, to people, to beauty, and to all that ennobles." –J. I. Packer

A Christian's Time Off

Where did we come up with this concept of "spare time," anyway? Is there any time for which we aren't accountable to God? Is there any time ...