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Happiness is . . . ? How would you finish the sentence? What do you think happiness is? Positive psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, in The...
The Secret Global Conspiracy
I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’ve seen a lot of conspiracies on the internet lately. The same theme seems to run through them...
Your Mental Health Matters For More Than Just You
We know from new research that children whose mothers are depressed may respond differently to stress, have altered immunity and be at greater risk...
Do You Need A Screen-Free Sabbath?
I am from the last generation to have had an analog childhood—a “Xennial” (the micro-generation between Gen X and Millennials born between 1977 and...
I consider myself a fairly honest person. But when someone asks that innocent question, “How are you?” I’m often tempted to twist the truth. Don’t get me wrong, most of the time, I am pretty good. But there have been moments I have been upset and seasons where I’ve...
The Value of Fatherhood
What are your values? Psychologists tell us that values emphatically communicate what is most important to us. When values are “intrinsic” (in other words,...
My Point of No Return
They say that as an aircraft sits at the end of a runway and begins to increase its thrust, there is an imminent stage...
I remember attending a life celebration held for two siblings who had tragically passed away. The sisters, aged two and five, drowned while playing outside their family home in Suva, Fiji. The incident came as a shock to their families, who never thought anything so awful would happen to...
Pray As You Can
I’m going to be honest with you. I find prayer really hard. If I had to give reasons for all my tears over the...
A Birthday Out of the Blue
Until that point in our marriage, my wife and I had shared a car. She worked in the city, close to public transport and...
It’s night-time. A diamond-sprinkled sky is my ceiling. A valley stretches west with tree branches soaring high, reaching tall toward the precious stars above. If I had my own personal temple where I prayed, conversed and cried to God, this might be it. A mini valley with wind singing...
The Guts to Change
We are not a completely solitary being as we are accompanied by microscopic bugs. Believe it or not, there are more microbial cells (40...
How to Build a Better Brain
The first time he saw a living human brain, neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta says it became “a powerful and life-changing experience”. The brain is not “grey...
The generally accepted scientific theory of origins may be usefully regarded as having two components—one concerning life’s beginning and the second concerning subsequent development. Processes of chemical evolution are thought to have produced the primordial cell and hence the first life-forms. This theory suggests that organic molecules formed from...
Just how close are humans and chimpanzees?
Chimpanzees and humans are very similar, but is that a sign of a common ancestor or something else?
Can science explain everything?
Is it possible for a science book to comfortably sit on the shelves of both someone who believe in God and someone who doesn't? Adrian Petre thinks so.
Would you consider yourself a good person? I want you to be truly honest with yourself. Looking at your relationships, values, actions, thoughts and the motives of your heart, would you say you were “on the whole” good? Chances are, you probably do consider yourself a good person. You...
Our Preoccupation With Death
I was scrolling through my phone’s app store one day when I saw something that left me bemused. It was an exercise monitor for...
Hollywood’s Disability
When the doctor first told my wife and I that our son was going to be born with a disability, I was uncommonly brave....
