In 1954, Air Force flight surgeons ran a now-famous experiment on spatial disorientation. They put pilots in a flight simulator, spun them through banking turns with no window to the outside world, and asked them to trust only their instruments — not their bodies. Every one of them
Read MoreSolomon became king of Israel while he was still a very young man, stepping into the shoes of his father David — who was, by every measure, a legend. Solomon hadn't built anything yet. He hadn't proven anything yet. One night, at a place called Gibeon, God appeared to him in a
Read MoreNear the very beginning of the Bible, in the second chapter of Genesis, God plants a garden and puts a tree of life at its center, fed by a river that flows out to water the whole earth. It's the first picture Scripture ever gives us of a flourishing world — and notice the word: planted. Not a
Read MoreIn 2003, a nineteen-year-old named Elizabeth Holmes dropped out of Stanford to found a company called Theranos, built on a genuinely good idea: cheap, simple blood testing that could catch disease early and save lives. She didn’t sit down on day one and decide to defraud
Read MoreThere's an old story about a village terrorized for years by a dragon no one could see. Every great warrior in the kingdom tried to fight it and failed — how do you strike something with no visible shape? Then one day a boy, not trying to be brave, just fumbling with a bucket, threw
Read MoreAt a dinner party a few months ago, a man made a joke at someone else’s expense — the kind that gets a laugh from the table by embarrassing someone else. He knew, before it even left his mouth, how it would land. He said it anyway, because the laugh in that second mattered more
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