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A Good Night’s Rest

Americans sleep about two hours less a night than a century ago. Many assume less sleep means more productivity. Science and scripture would question that.

Freeze Dried Food

I don’t teach business principles. I don’t teach biblical principles. When friends ask why, I tell them principles are freeze-dried food.

Paying Attention?

Confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh begin tomorrow. Few Americans will pay close attention. Fewer still will pay attention to the larger story.

Why TED Talks Are 18 Minutes

TED Talks are making an impact. One reason is TED presenters speak for no more than 18 minutes. Scripture and neuroscience support this limit.

Why Few Start With Why

Simon Sinek says great leaders and organizations start with why. While a popular talk, a simple exercise reveals few organizations actually start with why.

Putting Our House In Order

The framers of the US Constitution recognized three steps for sustaining liberty. Christians generally dislike the second step. That’s why our house is not in order.

Spot On

Two years ago, Huffington Post suggested nine reasons why Bono was “spot on” about what it’s like to search for God. What do you think of them?

None Of The Above

What does it tell us that the majority of American Christians seem to know next to nothing about the majority of Americans?

Making Progress

“The scandal of the evangelical mind is there is no evangelical mind.” That was Mark Noll’s frank assessment of evangelicalism in 1994. We’ve since been making progress, evident in new works such as the Society of Christian Scholars.

Four-Fresco Faith

Do Raphael’s frescoes indicate our modern approach to apologetics is madness? Three apologists of the 20th century might say yes.