Man Is Trapped by Perfectionism

Author Brené Brown was at a book signing where a woman and her husband approached her with books to get autographed. After Brown signed the books, ...

Fitness Coach Says Admitting Weakness Increases Resilience

Steve Magness, a performance coach who has worked with Olympians and professional athletes, has become an expert on resilience. Magness notes that admitting ...

Food Drive Saved by Christmas Volunteers

In 2018, when Dale and Julie Marks bought their home in the Beaverdale community of Des Moines, they were excited because the community is known for its ...

High School Freshmen ‘Translate’ the Beatitudes

Dr. Emily McGowin, assistant professor of theology, at Wheaton College writes:

When I taught high school, one of my favorite assignments was having my ...

The Amazing Skill of the Lowly Pigeon

There are 290 species of pigeons in the world, but only one has adapted to live in cities. But that one species has an amazing skill—the ability ...

Delaware Community Rallied Around Lowly ‘Christmas Weed’

Many communities are forced to reckon with good things that somehow slip through the cracks. In Claymont, one of those things ended up as a blessing.

The ...

Strength in the Midst of Error

Strong people make as many and as ghastly mistakes as weak people. The difference is that strong people admit them, laugh at them, learn from them. That ...

Knowledge of Our Neediness

In our more honest moments, all of us know what needy people we are.

Enormous Barrier

A feeble, nominal Christianity is the great obstacle to the conversion of the world.

Life in the Ordinary

The culture conditions us to approach people and situations as journalists do: see the big, exploit the crisis, edit and abridge the commonplace, interview ...