Do you ever wonder who you are and what your purpose in life is?  I hope so.  It would be a tragedy if you didn’t.  As far as we can tell, to wonder about who you are and your purpose in life is a distinctly human ability.  Unlike all other

Humans are believing machines.  Who are we? Where did we come from? What is worth pursuing in life?  What should we avoid?  What, if anything, gives life meaning and purpose?  What does success in life look like?  How does life work best?  How should we relate to others?  Everything we

Aleksandr Sozhenitsyn was a captain in the Soviet Army during World War 2 and also spent eight years in the Soviet gulag prison system.  More importantly for us today, he is the author of one of the most important books ever written – The Gulag Archipelago (link to an abridged

Sometimes we can feel like it’s only the big things that matter and if we want our lives to matter we need to prioritize and give our lives to the big things. We can live our entire life believing that our significance is “somewhere out there.” I love that this

The Bible has a lot to share with us on the purpose of life from it’s combined centuries of experience and there seems to be a paradox that runs through these insights – a paradox on how we are to hold the purpose of our lives. The paradox of purpose