When I began to write this post, I looked for a dozen passages in the Scriptures that Christians in the West largely ignored in practice, despite mentally assenting to the truths contained therein. But what scared me as I delved into this was that far too many passages of the Scriptures are simply i...

Jesus looked at them and said, “With man it is impossible, but not with God. For all things are possible with God.” —Mark 10:27 Read that verse again. Now I want to ask a question: Is it true? If any of us had to think even a split second about the answer, then something’s wrong....

Article by Zen Habits contributor Jonathan Mead; follow him on twitter. Not getting enough items on your To-Do list checked off? Do you feel guilty because you’re not doing enough? I’ll be the first one to admit that I don’t always remain calm, zen and un-phased when I don’t ...

We watched the penultimate teaching from The Truth Project this evening at church. It dealt with labor. I found it a good teaching, showing that work can be a joy because God Himself took joy in His work. Best of all, the teaching touched on the need for Christians to support the arts and those skil...

During my weekly Stumble Upon architecture trip (yes, I am addicted to the SU architecture channel like crack) I found some amazing offbeat and beautiful structures you have to see… Casa Batllo : The House of Bones - at Sooth Brush. They’ve got loads of interior pics posted - the best co...

I feel like I just wrote a post on balance the other day. Oh yeah, it wasn't even a month ago. And yet, balance is what's on my mind .... again. Life is good. But life is busy these days. I'm finding that my room is extremely cluttered, which is always a warning sign for me that my life is a bit out...

Via Explainst: This Scientific American article describes their elegant experiment to see how people react when something “feels� difficult. They presented two different groups of college students with printed instructions for a regular exercise routine. While the wording was the same in both se...

Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Mary Jaksch of the Goodlife Zen blog. When we see a wilting plant, we know what to do, right? We water it. But when we are exhausted and stressed, it’s often difficult to recover. The problem is that the exhaustion many of us suffer from can’t be ...

Post written by Leo Babauta. Follow me on Twitter. It’s hard, from within the storm of every day life, to see things with real perspective, to know what’s important and what’s simply pressing on our consciousness right now, demanding attention. We have people emailing us for inform...

I ran across this hugely successful chart on Dean Foster's home page (and noted that he and his Wharton colleagues have a nice blog picking apart statistical errors committed in public.) This is a histogram plotting the historical year-on-year returns of the S&P 500 index, binned into 10%-le...