The depressed brain—dopamine starved and flooded with cortisol—badly needs a good belly laugh, but can the raunchy humor of Sarah Silverman and Amy Schumer possibly be healthy?
Through their vows, and in their communities, the Sisters of Life embrace the poverty of the expectant mothers they support, bringing the Pope’s vision of a “Church of the Poor” to life.
IBM’s new ad campaign featuring Watson the supercomputer is selling the message that AI has arrived. But consciousness remains a mystery, and a true thinking machine is still far beyond the reach of science.
We’re all born with the desire to go beyond ourselves, to make a positive difference in the world, even to the point of self-sacrifice. Our capacity for empathy and conscience makes that possible.
In the world of pop spirituality, the cult of failure is often the cult of success in disguise. For Christians, "embracing failure" is a radically different experience.
The essence of women is that we’re made to nurture, made for relationship, made to bring new life into the world. The world desperately needs to recover the "eternal feminine."
Backed by groundbreaking clinical research, Columbia psychologist Lisa Miller is proposing a new vision of parenting that makes nurturing "natural spirituality" the first priority for a child’s mental health and happiness. Could her work spark the next religious awakening?
Unlike the wildly popular mindfulness app called Headspace, Christianity can’t be packaged, promoted, or marketed. It’s already every human being’s birthright.
Mindfulness is not spirituality. It’s a practice based on neuroscience that anyone—religious or not—can use to quiet the mind and reduce anxiety and depression.
When I was in deep grief, I often had to refer to a checklist in the morning just to summon the will to get out of bed. The torpid pace of depression was an iss... Read More ...
Only by recovering a sense of awe and reverence for the mysteries hidden in nature and in the heart of the human soul—together with our children—can we restore hope for their future and the future of the earth they will inherit from us.
His presence at Mass hyper-focused my attention. I saw in a whole new way how in the Penitential Rite we establish why we've come. We're all sinners. We're all broken.
