Behavior shapes beliefs..

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow..

It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz.

I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the hone….

I prefer the earlier birth control techniques, which ranged from the delicious (using honey as a spermicide) to the aerobic (jumping backward seven t….

Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight..

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat..

After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a comp….

Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness..

Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why..

There's a lot of food restriction in the Bible, but it does say you're allowed to eat crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. I decided to take advantag….

I grew up in a very secular home with no religion at all, so I was starting from zero..

Its sort of my job to feel good..

I'm all for cafeteria religion. I think there's nothing wrong with cafeterias - I've had some great meals at cafeterias. I've also had some horrible ….

There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, whi….

More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving..

There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great & p….

Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge b….

One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder..

Since I was relatively new to the Bible, I was surprised by the Old Testament God. He's wrathful, but at other times, He's incredibly compassionate. ….

A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses..