Fact: People who feel they are making strides up their personal evolution ladder are often not just healthy and happy but wise, or at least in the general vicinity of "wise." For centuries, the ...

Rashawn Slater surely didn’t become an offensive lineman to speak in public. The thought of addressing a large group makes the 6-foot-4, 315-pound left tackle shrink away. But he knows resistance is ...

We have all been targets of proverbial wisdom, particularly when we were young. A large part of the job of parenting in the old days was to bombard one’s offspring with warnings and advice in the form ...

During a question and answer session headlined by writers Stephen King and Lee Child at Sanders Theatre recently, King made a few casual—albeit illuminating—comments about his writing process. Asked ...

A pastor who grew weary of the usual Sunday morning “That was a good sermon” comments determined to find out just how effective all his “good” sermons were. He began to ask his people questions, such ...

I’m not a big fan of cut-and-paste columns. It seems kind of lazy, like breaking a contract with readers who expect new, fresh content 52 times a year. Having said that, some stuff is too good not to ...