In 1997, National Community Church was just getting off the ground. We were meeting in the movie theaters at Union Station, and one day after church I was walking home. We lived on F Street; F Street dead ends into Union Station. I came to the [...]

On December 31st, 1759, Arthur Guinness leased a 4-acre piece of property in Dublin, Ireland. That’s where Guinness built his brewery, which he saw as a form of philanthropy. Guinness beer was less alcoholic than gin; it was more nutritious than [...]

Almost half a century ago, Ellen Langer conducted a rather unorthodox experiment involving octogenarians. She called it the Counterclockwise Study. The year was 1979, but she created the world of 1959 by retrofitting an old monastery where those [...]