Choosing Hope

A little girl pounds her chest in front of the gorilla habitat at the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha. The alpha male silver-back charges the w...

We are finalizing our 2014 federal and state tax returns today. And no, we won't get a "refund."  If we did, we would have f...

A variety of wild and crazy (or not so wild and crazy) ideas that come out of reading Thaler and Sunstein's book, Nudge: Improving Dec...

Soren Kierkegaard wrote  “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”  So we routinely make decisions based on ...

When we think about congregational stewardship, we need to take into account what has been labeled the “mere-measurement effect.” When peo...

I'm back at my research for a book on the positive psychology of stewardship. Whenever possible, givers should be equipped with ways t...

Extraversion May Be Less Common Than We Think - Association for Psychological Science