I got reading a bit of Seneca’s On the Shortness of Life this afternoon. Seneca was a Stoic philosopher, meaning that he belonged to a camp that “preached freedom from passion by following reason” (Wikipedia). Seneca’s main point is that it’s pointless to complain about how short life is. Life, he says, is plenty long enough; the main...

A couple of years ago at my school, our chaplain asked me to create a Bible reading plan that our students could follow from September to June, reading through the whole Bible in slightly less than 10 months. A quick search of the internet revealed that virtually every reading plan out there starts January 1st and ends on December 31st. Never one to back down from...