Category: Colson Center

Certain lifestyle choices strongly correspond to long-term success: staying in school; avoiding pregnancy outside of marriage; regularly attending church; and abstaining from drug abuse, heavy drinking, and risky sex. Decades…

John and Maria discuss a recent commentary on Haiti before exploring an article by Trevin Wax on the lean toward politics by progressive Christians. That discussion leads into a new…

I recently watched a video of Pakistani tribesmen trying cheesecake for the first time. I know that might sound random, but it was kind of awesome.  Though “diversity” has morphed…

Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru, in 1959 – the illegitimate son of Don Juan de Porres, a Spanish nobleman. His mother, Ana Velázquez, was a freed African…

On Saturday Night Live last week, in a sketch featuring “Goober the Clown,” Cecily Strong ridiculed Texas’ heartbeat law. Strong told her abortion story using “fun clown stuff” like balloon…

In 1974, philosopher Robert Nozick proposed a thought experiment he called “the experience machine.” He hoped to challenge hedonism, the belief that the highest good in life is finding the…

John and Shane discuss a recent article in The Atlantic by Peter Whener about the abandonment of Jesus’ teachings by evangelicals. The listener asks how Christians should respond to these claims.…

In 2017, Yale researcher Michael Kraus discovered that the best medium for communication was voice-only. Scientists have a couple of theories as to why.   First, voice-only is just less…

Last week, at 34-years-old, baseball great Buster Posey retired. Drafted by the San Francisco Giants, he went on to help win three World Series. Retiring means leaving a $22 million…

I heard recently of a retired nurse with a great tagline: “Everyone should have a job they truly hate, so that when they get a job they love they can…