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Why Starting Over Every January May Be the Wrong Goal0
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- December 31, 2025
For millions of Americans, the start of the new year brings a familiar ritual as we pledge to be fitter, happier, wealthier, or more disciplined versions of ourselves. A recent YouGov poll found that roughly 25% of Americans want to exercise more in 2026, whereas 23% want more happiness and 22% want to eat healthier.
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What Makes Us Happy?0
Everyone wants to be happy. As Aristotle explains in “The Nicomachean Ethics,” happiness is the thing we desire for its own sake. We don’t pursue happiness as a means to some other good; it appears to be the final end people pursue in life. The other things we aim at – wealth, pleasure, relationships –
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Pew Plan: The Wellness Program No One Discusses0
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- November 20, 2025
“[L]et us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.” – Hebrews 10:24-25 Want to live a longer, healthier, and more upbeat life? Doctors, researchers, and other
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Finding Heaven in Hard Things1
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- November 5, 2025
“Is this heaven?” Shoeless Joe Jackson asks Ray Kinsella in Field of Dreams. I’ve always loved that line. Growing up on an Iowa farm, we had our own ball field behind our house. My dad built a backstop for my brothers and me long before Kevin Costner ever heard “The Voice.” On summer evenings, Dad would
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Creativity Is the Antidote to AI0
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- October 30, 2025
I recently had the fun of participating in a choral performance premiering a new oratorio on the life of John Newton, the slave-trader turned Christian minister and writer of the beloved hymn, “Amazing Grace.” One never knows how something new will be received, but when the audience leapt to its feet in a wave at
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Growing Old With Gratitude21
Now that I’ve spent a few years as what we euphemistically call a senior citizen, I’ve discovered that the autumn of life isn’t so bad. I’ve also learned that all that talk about “old age is not for sissies” is junk. Sissy or not, the years keep on passing. You want to see an example
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Why Starting Over Every January May Be the Wrong Goal
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Why Starting Over Every January May Be the Wrong Goal
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Pew Plan: The Wellness Program No One Discusses
- Religion, Culture, Family, Featured, Health, Philosophy, Western Civilization
- November 20, 2025
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Finding Heaven in Hard Things
- Culture, Education, Featured, Health, Religion, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
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