We’re living in the dystopian future Neil Postman predicted 40 years ago: Brett McCracken says, “From the rising of the sun to its going down, we scroll our way through the day. We scroll our way through life. And we are scrolling ourselves to death.”
Five hard truths about marriage most couples learn too late: Psychologist Mark Travers’s findings echo truths in the Bible, “One of the biggest misconceptions about marriage is that truly compatible people don’t argue. But not only is conflict inevitable, it’s also essential.”
The daily battleground we often ignore in therapy culture: Casey McCall says, “We live in a therapeutic age that trains us to label every emotional struggle as disease. We are trained to identify illnesses for which we bear no responsibility. Our mental state is determined solely by forces outside our control.”
The wilderness between who you are and who you are becoming: Christopher Cook says, “The biblical pattern is not obedience followed by reward. It is obedience, followed by wilderness, followed by formation.”
What Americans remember most about high school: Taylor Orth reports, “Most Americans (54%) say that if they could, they would go back and do high school over again — 12% say they would do it again exactly the same and 43% say they'd do things differently this time. 40% of Americans say that once was enough. Most Americans say their high school experience played a role in determining the adult they would become: 35% say it played a major role and 43% say a minor role.”

Photo by Eliott Reyna on Unsplash