Have you ever played the prosperity game? It’s a mental exercise that asks how you would spend ever increasing amounts of money. Here’s how it works. Each day, for twenty days, you receive a sum of money and you must…
“Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.” George Bernard Shaw in Caesar and Cleopatra Shaw has had lots of fans in recent years. “Constructivists”, as…
What were you thinking about as this film ended? What images from the film linger most vividly in your mind? Why do you think you were struck by them so forcefully? In one of Inception’s central scenes 19th century opium…
“Give away some of your stuff. See how it feels,” says Tammy Strobel in a widely read article from the New York Times, But Will It Make You Happy? The article explains how a growing number of Americans are attempting…
Perhaps it's a luxury to ponder calling as a subject. History is full of humans who understood their calling (not that they would have ever called it that) as their very day-to-day survival. These days, and in this part of…
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Marilynne Robinson www.thedailyshow.com Marilynne Robinson's new book, Absence of Mind: The Dispelling of Inwardness from the Modern Myth of the Self, is a collection of lectures she delivered at Yale last year. You can…
Tim Keller shares some thoughts on daily prayer and Bible reading in a brief blog post, Scraps of Thoughts on Daily Prayer – interesting to get a little insight into his own disciplines; invaluable in sharing some helpful resources which…