Not too long ago, I attended a men’s weekend retreat. One of the leaders mentioned that, years earlier, he had chosen a “life verse” from the Bible that he memorized and lived by. He urged us to choose a life verse, as well. I thought about that for a week....

A fitness instructor at my gym was at the grocery store the other day. Two people were ahead of her in line: a middle-aged man and a woman in her 70s. When the total was rung up for the woman, the man pulled out some cash and paid her bill....

  A few days ago, I strolled into my local grocery store to find a mother squatting down to talk to her tow-headed daughter. I’m guessing her little girl was around three years old, that cantankerous age when you begin to wonder why you had a kid in the first place. Tears...

  It’s a new national sport to make fun of Justin Bieber and Miley Cyrus. Their wild antics have made them juicy targets, to be sure. Though I am not guiltless, I’ve become increasingly uncomfortable bashing such celebrities. I am becoming more aware that I share some profound things with them. And so do...

  Last week was big news for discovery geeks. After being kept a secret for eight years, an ancient submarine forest is being explored about ten miles from the shores of Mobile, Alabama. The bald cypress forest, sixty feet deep in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, has been buried under sediment for...