Yes, you read that post title correctly. Social media has significantly improved my life. Now: many people lament the effects of social media on the body politic, reporting how Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and the rest accentuate our differences and polarize our...

Several years ago, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal played an exhibition match called "The Battle Of The Surfaces" in which half the court was grass and the other half was clay. The arrangement made me think of the line from Hotel California:  "this could be heaven or...

Yesterday's message ... Hinged on the fact that in Exodus 1, the Hebrew midwives are named while the all powerful Pharoah is anonymous.  A tiny detail with an enormous impact. Noted some parallels between Pharoah's attempts to erase a generation and the culture wars...

Where do we find today's biggest movers and shakers? On Wall Street?  Washington DC?  The Silicon Valley? These are the ones who shape our lives, what we believe, and how we spend our time. But who influences the next generation? Is it YouTube?  Hollywood?  The Video...

Bill Simmons, who is a Boston-bred, Ringer-based author and columnist, has written the definitive history of the NBA with his The Book Of Basketball. In this, the quickest 800 page read of my life, Simmons is in turn unfiltered, poignant, statistical, profane,...

In yesterday's post, I had the nerve to ask whether a degree from Princeton University (or any other "elite" school for that matter) is more of a burden than a blessing. In case you're curious, here I am as a college sophomore in backhand mode playing a match against...

That question looks and sounds absurd, does it not? Why would I even ask if graduating from one of the most prestigious universities in the country could be anything but an honor?  Why raise the possibility that it could be as much albatross as advantage? Only someone...

I was away this past weekend celebrating my wife Julie's college reunion. (Well, my college reunion, too, but it was her 35th and only my 34th and those "5" or "0" reunions are a big deal at our alma mater.) So in my absence Wayne Hobson preached.  Wayne is our Pastor...

Here are the first five bottom lines for #EyeRollers: You can only love your enemies when you realize you're the loved enemy. Sometimes you have to sacrifice what is precious to preserve what is sacred. Your anger fades when you faced the ones you anger. The greatest...

I have shared with many of you before that there are two kinds of people in the world:  those who talk to think and those who think to talk. People who talk to think are also known as verbal processors.  They are the kind of folk who will talk to you for ten minutes...