Last year, my wife got me an iPod Shuffle for Christmas. Now, as far as the technology drool factor goes, the Shuffle is a pretty humble device. No screen. No apps. No GPS. No voice activation. No Angry Birds. Nothing but a gigabyte or two to store a c …

Fewer Americans than ever are getting married these days, according to a new report from the Pew Research Center. And that begs two important questions: Why? And how does this trend potentially influence faithful Christians who care deeply about marria …

Last week, TIME magazine announced the winner of its 2011 Person of the Year award. Its choice joins previous winners: George W. Bush, Bono, Bill and Melinda Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and others. Like them, this year’s winner is responsible for positive c …

Evil is seemingly easy when a person in authority says you can do it. That was the chilling result of a social experiment conducted nearly 50 years ago. People were brought in and told to electrocute a person sitting in the chair. Since the person in a …

I was sitting in a faculty meeting the other night and snickered as the conversation turned to how we can better reach our millennial students: “The millennials have completely integrated technology into their lives. The millennials are extreme multita …

Were you born between 1982 and 2004? If so, you are a millennial. Having been born in 1989, I am undeniably a millennial. I don’t mind being put in an age category; age is irrefutable and therefore nothing I can change. I’m 22 and perfectly OK with tha …

Back in the early ’90s, “Saturday Night Live” did a mock self-help show called “Daily Affirmation With Stuart Smalley.” Stuart Smalley (no relationship!) was a spoof on individuals who were obsessed with 12-step programs and who had become addicted to …

Call me a nerd, but my fascination with the internet and how we use it led me to read a book on that very subject. In The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains, Nicholas Carr makes a compelling argument that because of this new medium, the …