On this day, one hundred and sixty years ago (1854, for those who struggle to do math on the weekend 🙂 ), Henry David Thoreau’s book Walden was published. In it he chronicled the two years he spent living in a one-room cabin he’d built for himself by Walden Pond on the property of his...

From time to time I’ll hear Christians discuss the merits of happiness. Oddly, as wonderful as happiness might at first glance appear, in these conversations I often hear it discussed with a measure of suspicion. Happiness, they say, is fleeting, transient, and too often an object of desire,...