I’m a TED junkie, and I love watching videos from some of the most brilliant minds today. Here is a recent talk from a British author named Matt Ridley that I absolutely loved, with one of the best titles for a talk I’ve ever seen. This is a profound 16 minutes if you take the time to watch it.

One of the things that was amazing to me about being in Egypt is how much of their history reinforces and further explains things that I’ve read about in the Bible for years. There were two areas where this really stood out to me. First, Egyptian culture in general. One of the nights we were there we took a boat trip around on the Nile River. We had a local Muslim friend with us and he was telling us about…

In light of the book I just finished, and the book I’m soon to begin about Abraham Lincoln, I came across a new Snopes article that details the fact from the legend when it comes to our most famous president. Did Lincoln really endure “constant failure and defeat from the time he was born until he was elected President?”

In case you haven’t seen the commercial telling the story of Norma McCorvey, aka Jane Roe, please watch this video. Her situation changed how our entire country operates (perhaps you’ve ever heard of Roe v. Wade?) and now her story has an amazing new twist. You can find out more at virtuemedia.org

I’m approaching 200 pages of my first Lincoln book of two this winter, and I came across an incredible story. On February 8, 1855, Lincoln was running to be a senator of Illinios. He needed 51 votes to win. This was when senators were chosen by the politicians themselves instead of the vote of the people. At one point in the voting, Lincoln had 47 votes acquired, only 4 short of victory. The senators basically boiled down to three groups:…