Stats on Our Excessive Social Media Use

The following statistics suggest that our culture is being subjected to information overload:

• 73 percent of adults now use a social networking site of some kind.

I Would Walk 10,000 Miles

The New York Times recently had a story about an extreme adventurer (Swiss woman Sarah Marquis) who in various travels over three years has walked nearly ...

The New Social Technology: Loss of Solitude

Sherry Turkle, Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at M.I.T., has interviewed hundreds of people of all ages about their daily fixations ...

Black-hole Resorts Designed to Help You Unplug

In an article titled "The Joy of Quiet," author Pico Iyer mentions a cliff-top room in Big Sur where people pay $2,285 a night partly for the privilege ...

Study Finds that We Can't See Money on Trees

Does money grow on trees? Even if it did, many of us might not notice it. That's the conclusion from a team of researchers who were studying something ...

Study: People Prefer Electrocution to Quiet Time

We all crave a "little peace and quiet," from time to time, but a new study sheds (ahem) shocking light on how hard it actually is for us to ...

Our Greatest Need—to Behold God

Perhaps the greatest thing we can do as a Christian community is to behold. Behold our God. Behold his creation. The church has exiled beauty from its ...

Pot, Selfies, and Facebook—Welcome to the New Individualism

After analyzing a new Pew survey, New York Times columnist Ross Douthat claims that we're in a new and deeper "age of individualism." In ...

Early Church Leader's Story Reads like Current News

Once upon a time, there was a boy who grew up in a household of faith. As a young man, he was quickly singled out as a top student who was marked by key ...

Nelson Mandela on the Power of Words

It is never my custom to use words lightly. If 27 years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand ...