I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better..

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….

Jealousy is a useless, time-wasting emotion that's eating me alive..

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

I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant..

The Bible improved my ethical IQ. I started to act like a good person. I tried not to gossip, and lie, and covet, and just by pretending I was a good….

A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy who’s doing….

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….

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosin….

In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another..