Flinders University sleep health experts are working on developing improved solutions for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) to ward off a range of health risks, including cognitive decline, according to a release from the university. Heightened risk of cognitive function decline from undiagnosed OSA—particularly in middle-aged men living in the community—is the focus of one of…
One of the primary tasks of spiritual leadership is the ability to make prayerful, wise decisions. Yet many leaders find it difficult to invest the time and space necessary for sharp discernment. The result is that our decisions become dull, lacking precision and power. Over time, flippant decision-making inflicts tremendous consequences on us and those…
After six humid summers in Burma (now Myanmar), where temperatures topped 100 degrees, Adoniram Judson (1788–1850) hadn’t seen a single convert. Malaria, dysentery, and other diseases threatened the weary American and eventually took the lives of several members of his beloved family. Excruciating trials on top of terrible disappointments punctuated his 38 years of gospel…
A new study investigating the link between sleep and cerebral spinal fluid flow in birds shows that rapid eye movement (REM) sleep is accompanied by the activation of brain regions involved in processing visual information, including optic flow during flight. The study, published in Nature Communications, further demonstrates that ventricular cerebral spinal fluid flow increases…
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging consumers to stop using The Boppy Company infant loungers that were recalled in September 2021, as well as Momaid loungers that don’t comply with federal safety standards for infant sleep products. The loungers recalled in September 2021 are the Boppy Original Newborn Loungers, Boppy Preferred Newborn…
The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves. So many of us have been patiently waiting for the arrival…
Audio Transcript Good Monday. It’s a big week for us on the podcast, with two hot topics on the table. I’ll put them back to back because they’re related to one another. Both are very relevant for this season in church life, where social media plays a large role in our culture — or at…
Suffering changes our vision. Just as our natural eyes can’t see as well in the dark, in suffering we struggle to see beyond our pressing needs. Everything looks hazy — except our problems, which seem disproportionately clear and intense. It takes the eyes of faith to see past our present circumstances to the presence and…
In the book of Romans, the apostle Paul gives a simple yet profound exhortation to Christians that illuminates our fight with sin: Make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires. (Romans 13:14) The exhortation suggests that not only do we sin by gratifying sinful desires, but we can actually create space for such…
We often think of creation — forests and oceans, tornados and earthquakes, lions, tigers, and bears — as wild and untamed compared with normal life. And we’re not wrong. When God placed Adam into the world he had made, even before that world fell into disorder through sin, he charged the man “to work it…