There is an intriguing quote that I often share with men as they struggle with life. It comes from the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Cheever who said, “The main emotion of the adult American who has all the advantages of wealth, education and culture is disappointment.” I think a lot of us over time begin […] Read more

Over the last twenty years, Time magazine has had three cover stories on the pursuit of happiness. In each of these editions they were not examining how happy we have become, but commenting on the rise of unhappiness and discontentment among us. In one of the older but still relevant articles, Geoffrey Cowley quoted psychologist […] Read more

What is love? Join Dr. Mark Gignilliat from Beeson Divinity School, as he teaches on the book of Song of Solomon, also called Song of Songs. This book of lyrical poetry is a collection of 10 simple poems, where the couple speaking are freely describing their marital intimacy with joy and freedom. Song of Songs […] Read more

So many of the men I work with are in the third or fourth quarter of life. I was recently reading Psalm 90 and came across these words from the Psalmist: “As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, or if due to strength eighty years, yet their pride is but labor […] Read more

Every quarter I like to share quotes that I have encountered in my reading and research that have been meaningful to me. I call them “Nuggets of Wisdom.” ***** “If our only main contact with people is electronic, then we can’t have real feelings. We can’t know each other . . . We may get […] Read more

In the last few blogs I have reflected back on my own spiritual journey and how the mind and the heart each play a role. First in my mind, I believed that God existed and Jesus was the Son of God. I believed it because I saw that the evidence to believe it was sufficient. […] Read more

In the last few blogs I have reflected back on my own spiritual journey and how the mind and the heart each play a role. First in my mind, I believed that God existed and Jesus was the Son of God. I believed it because I saw that the evidence to believe it was sufficient. […] Read more

As I look back on my own story of faith, I can see how the mind and the heart both play a crucial role. I remember as a teenager hearing a presentation on the “Evidence for the Resurrection” and I went home thinking, “This is really true!” Over the years, that belief was fortified when […] Read more

This is the second part of a blog that ran on July 11, 2022. In next week’s blog, The Mind and the Heart – Part 3, I will look at the role of the mind and the heart as it relates to the issue of faith. ***** Recently I have been teaching on one of […] Read more

Modern technology brings about change so quickly that the harmful effects are generally not discovered before they are irreversible and before we realize how destructive the effects can be. Back in the 1960’s, the eminent scientist Harlow Shapely wrote on the five factors he believed that could potentially destroy Western civilization. The first was nuclear […] Read more