There have been so many words this week. Columns. Blogs. Facebook posts. Sermons. So many attempts to use language to describe the...

Our world is evolving at a blistering pace. The prevalence of the internet during the past 20 years has caused massive shifts in the way...

The following is a sermon I delivered at Valley Temple on Friday evening, December 29th, 2023. In my work with wedding couples, I’ve...

It is no small feat to tell a story with a foregone conclusion. After all, much of what makes a story engaging is the anticipation of...

There is a war raging in the Middle East. But there is also one being fought on social media. And they both scare me in equal measure. We...

The first time I read The Cuckoo’s Calling, I didn’t know who wrote it. It was the debut novel by an unknown writer, Robert Galbraith,...

If a book makes you want to keep reading to figure out what happens but massively underwhelms in the end, how do you evaluate its...

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ones.” Winston Churchill is quoted as saying this in 1947. You’d...

“But what if it had been your family?” This is the question people always seem to ask when discussing the death penalty. What if YOU were...

As our societal awareness of mental health has grown, so too has an industry focused on selling us the best ways to take care of our...

Sometimes a song hits you in just the right moment. The weather might have the perfect conditions, or the feelings of the day might...

“You stand on the shoulders of giants.” This was a popular refrain in my youth group growing up, and I believed it. I looked up to and...

There are a LOT of self-help books out there. This does beg the question: if the books are any good, why do we need so many? It seems...

The trailer for the new Netflix movie Luckiest Girl Alive caught my attention. Mila Kunis is a favorite of mine, and a suspenseful drama...

The following is a sermon delivered on April 21st, 2023 at the Valley Temple in Wyoming, Ohio. This week’s Torah portion,...

During the hardest parts of the COVID shutdown, my wife and I watched a lot of stand-up comedy. There was something refreshing about...

Life’s too short to read bad books. And the old adage about “don’t judge a book by its cover” is a lot of phooey. Because you can usually...

The sports industry has been surprisingly puzzling in the past decade or so. During a period of entertainment innovation, you would think...

Everything starts from a place of relationships. This is true in every industry, but is perhaps most often ignored in a business setting....

Books on personal growth are as popular as ever, likely because it is pretty darn difficult to be a human being in the modern world....