I was speaking at a conference about ambition and how, as Christians, we can navigate the tension between selfish ambition and passion as we work. After the talk, during a Q&A time, a woman who owned a construction company put up her hand. She had a comment rather than a question: “I’ve enjoyed what you...
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In the United States, we have the privilege of living under a government elected by and accountable to its citizens. We also have a history of robust civic engagement in the political process. The last several years have witnessed a degree of polarization not seen for decades in American political life. This polarization has prompted...
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Peter Attia is a medical doctor with an impressive resume: Stanford, Johns Hopkins, NIH, and the rest. He also wrote one of the bestselling books (so far) of 2023: Outlive. Attia is the figurehead of the longevity movement—a movement dedicated to preventative medicine, as I understand it, to enable maximum flourishing for the maximum amount...
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A couple weeks ago, we began a short series of posts from TWI looking at what we can learn from church history about how to faithfully follow Jesus in the political sphere, with Kaitlyn Schiess looking at Augustine and the City of God. Our next contributor is Rev. Dr. Michael Allen, the John Dyer Trimble...
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Editor’s Note: This post was originally published in November of 2016. When I was a boy, my grandfather and I spent summers buying cattle throughout Colorado. Mostly of course, he was the buyer, but there were moments when, with a certain twinkle in his eye, he would let me be the bidder, nudging me to...
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You and I have both been leaving a movie when a surprise scene after the credits shows up – a “credit cookie.” You may think these are a modern development, but filmmakers have been doing them for years. Wikipedia gives me a list of some of the most known: Night of the Living Dead (1968),...
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