In The Church of Facebook, author and musician Jesse Rice delivers a valuable treatment on both the origins of Facebook, and the subtle but overwhelming effects Facebook has on its users. With Gladwell-esque style, Rice writes with precision and below-the-surface insight. This is not a Christian book...

I bought this T-shirt and it’s been kind of an albatross to me. I love the shirt but it’s the attention it attracts that frustrates me. It’s a red T that says “2 Weeks” on the front in bold white letters. Every time I wear it someone, or many someones, ask me, “Hey, Brian, what’s in two...

“No, no, forty dollar is good price,” she said. “Fifteen dollars is my final offer,” I replied, which I knew was a lie. But that’s how the bartering goes in third-world countries – you just keep telling lies until someone gets tired of it. It’s an understood...

I usually spend my Sunday evenings in my warm house watching “Desperate Housewives” on my plasma T.V. Tonight I’m doing something different. Very Different. I’m checking into homeless shelter, as a homeless person. Why? 1) I need to discover what it’s like to be in solidarity...

In his second book, Sex God, Rob Bell delivers a fashionable treatise for dealing with sexuality in the open. “It’s always about something else,” Bell says, “Something deeper. Something behind it all. You can’t talk about sexuality without talking about how we were made....