Learning To Live The Good Life 101 + Have A Little Faith

October 5, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Living The Good Life 101 In the world of higher education, it's not unusual for campuses to host visiting professors and guest lecturers by the dozen, all vying to bring the buzziest theorists, authors and scientists to speaking halls across the country. Typically, the topics might include the power of entrepreneurship, the war against women, whither the global economy, or writing fiction. But an upcoming two-day lecture and seminar by William Irvine at Brown University will deliver an unexpected message to the busy, stressed and often career-oriented Ivy League audience of students and faculty: how to live "the good life" with happiness and success. Continue reading... Why One Man Says He Landed On The No-Fly List Comic Does GENIUS Religion Series Under Pressure Hobby Lobby Agrees To Carry Jewish Holiday Items Hobby Lobby Update WATCH: Pope Francis Follows Footsteps Of Namesake Pope Emeritus' 'Explosive Revelation' About Francis Hobby Lobby Update Hobby Lobby Update Dear Parents With Young Children In Church HOWARD J. CURZER A Rising Tide Floats One Boat: Noah's Response to Climate Change As climate change comes crashing down upon us, we will face many hard choices between saving species and saving individual animals. Should we follow Noah's lead? Continue reading... JAMES D. TABOR The Christians as the Romans Saw Them: Superstitious, Depraved, Obstinate, and Foolish This sort of religious segregation from common expressions of Greco-Roman piety -- from swearing allegiance to the Roman Gods and to the Emperor to participation in activities associated with pagan temples -- effectively marginalized those adherents to "Christ as a god" from the rest of society. Continue reading... REV. LARRY HOLLON Online Communion Sparks Questions for Digital Age Is it crazy to discuss conducting this most historic act of faithfulness through a mediated form that is foreign to our historic understanding? Continue reading... SUSAN RAVA God and Alzheimer's A voice in the center of my being told me that I belonged, not in Montana, but with my parents. What voice was this I heard? For me, it was God who directed me to accompany my father and mother in their decline. Continue reading... RYAN THOMAS NEACE Do Church Small Groups Need a Therapist? One of the most disturbing commonalities is the capacity of small group leaders to ignore what's going on in and among the group in real-time, instead tending exclusively to what they believe is the subject at hand (usually bible study). In so doing, they grossly limit the power of the group to make operative Christ's work in their midst. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003