Does your child view the world like a cup that is half empty? Recently my child returned from school and shared with us the worries of her friends about problems with school safety. Online news ...

A positive optimist promotes a vision of a better future to motivate people to strive for it. A negative optimist also hopes for a better future but focuses on what keeps us from achieving it.

Since this column reflects on current events and life experience, I am constantly searching the news for information. It is a daunting task. The headlines alone are depressing, let alone the ...

If you feel less stressed, sad, angry and worried than a year ago, you're in good company, according to Gallup's latest annual report into the world's mood. Even as the world faced warfare and ...

The Sunday morning service had just ended. Members of the congregation were filing out of the church, shaking hands and exchanging greetings. I had never ministered here before but felt at ease with ...

While many of us recently celebrated Easter Sunday, this seems an appropriate time to reflect upon our country's changing attitudes toward Christianity. Although America never installed a state ...

Aaron Renn outlines individual, institutional, and missional strategies for adapting to a hostile culture. Rarely does an essay cause such a stir as Aaron Renn’s “The Three Worlds of Evangelicalism.” ...