How to start reading the Bible for beginners: the Gospel you were told to open has its hardest page first. Here is the verse where the story actually starts.
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How to Stay Motivated When No One Is Watching
Struggling to stay motivated when no one is watching? The problem is not your discipline. It is a missing signal – and here is how to build one that works.
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“Be Yourself; Everyone Else Is Already Taken” Isn’t Wilde
No evidence Oscar Wilde said “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” The earliest copy in print is from 1999 – and what he did write is better.
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Disgrace Ending Explained: Why Coetzee Ends With a Dog
Disgrace ending explained: J.M. Coetzee gives Lurie two confessions, one to save his job and one for nothing. Why the novel closes on a dog he gives up.
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Did Elijah Have Depression? What God Did First
Did Elijah have depression? He asked God to end his life in 1 Kings 19. God’s first answer was not a sermon. It was a meal, sleep, and then a second meal.
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Tenzing Norgay and Hillary: Who Reached Everest First?
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary said they reached the top of Everest almost together. Then Tenzing answered the question himself, and gave the honour away.
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Genetic Risk for Depression: Why Moving Helped Most Where Risk Ran Highest
Genetic risk for depression is not the final word. In 23,517 adults with fitness trackers, moving more eased symptoms most for those with the highest risk.
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Greek Word for Redemption: What Does “Apolytrosis” Really Mean?
What does apolytrosis really mean? A full word study of ἀπολύτρωσις (Strong’s G629) — the ransom price behind the Greek word for redemption, and why Ephesians 1 uses it twice.
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Human-Authored Books: Why We Now Label Who Wrote Them
Human-authored books now carry labels in the US, UK and France. What each one checks, what none of them can prove, and why we care so much who made a thing.
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Jehovah Rapha Meaning: Nobody Was Sick When God Said It
Jehovah Rapha meaning, from Exodus 15:26: God took the name Healer at a bitter spring, three days after the Red Sea, with nobody in the story sick at all.