![The Habit of Keeping Divine Company The Habit of Keeping Divine Company](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/61017.jpg?h=168&w=300)
A recent study on the habits of cell phone users reveals disturbing trends:
• 9 percent of U.S. adults are using their smartphones while they have sex.
• 35 percent are using their phones in a movie theatre.
• 33 percent are using them on a dinner date.
![A Matter of Priority A Matter of Priority](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60497.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Busyness has become a celebrated lifestyle today. If people aren’t busy, we think less of them. In Overwhelmed, Brigid Schulte writes, about time researcher Ann Burnett, who studies Christmas letters and notes the rise of people sharing about their busy lives over the ...
![Lead Me On: I Love Me, I Love Me Not Lead Me On: I Love Me, I Love Me Not](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60496.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Former NBC anchor Brian Williams has had a rough 2015, and last month it got worse.
His viewing audience was informed earlier this year that Williams lied about certain experiences he claimed happened to him during his time reporting in war-torn Afghanistan, and after several ...
![Can We Really Be Like Christ? Can We Really Be Like Christ?](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60756.jpg?h=168&w=300)
Jesus is the example par excellence of obedience and self-sacrifice held up to the church, but Paul also uses his experiences, and those of his coworker Timothy and his friend Epaphroditus, as examples of selfless service. In recent years, an attempt to connect the Christ ...
![Malestrom: Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World Malestrom: Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60755.jpg?h=168&w=300)
The book:
Malestrom: Manhood Swept into the Currents of a Changing World
By Carolyn Custis James
Published by Zondervan
Why I Picked Up This Book:
I attended the Missio Alliance National Conference, where men and women gathered to consider what it means to be #TrulyHuman. ...
![The Church that Cliques The Church that Cliques](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60486.jpg?h=168&w=300)
My husband and I were visiting a church while out of town. Upon arrival we noticed very quickly we were not greeted with friendly faces. After making it inside, an elder introduced us and helped us find children's church then walked us into the sanctuary. During the meet ...
![Finding Godās Strength in Our Weakness Finding Godās Strength in Our Weakness](https://www-images.christianitytoday.com/images/60485.jpg?h=168&w=300)
I have a long history of denial—of masking my weaknesses and soldiering on. I’m not exactly sure how or when I learned this paradigm or, more importantly, why I believed it was somehow more spiritual than other options. It worked as both a ministry model and a ...