I’ve always gone to church. At age 11, my heart was captured and thus I began my Christian transformation by walking down the aisle during the very traditional invitational song, Just As I Am. So growing up in a large Baptist church, being involved in everything from vacation bible school, youth group, mission trips and...

Mindfulness is the chosen capacity to be fully present in the moment in which you are living. All too often we spend our waking thought life engaged in thinking about the past or the future. Very rarely are we 100 percent present with ourselves and our surroundings in any given moment. When you’re mindful, you...

Students can increase the value of their textbook investment. Information in the body of books is the primary content area but taking a few minutes to review both the front pages and end pages of books can dramatically increase their efficiency as tools in helping students attain success in their related courses. One of the...

People talk about community as if it were a canned good they could grab off the grocery store shelf— “I want to see more community.” Okay abstract thinker, how do you propose we encourage people to interact with and belong to something? Community functions as a byproduct of a larger goal or focal point. For...