Lessons from a Physician About Hope
Dr. Leif Hass shares what he has learned about hope as a foundational element to healing, “what stifles it, what helps it spring forth, what social settings and cognitive states nurture it, and what...
View ArticleSoaring: Birds and their Human Foster Parents
For the northern bald ibis bird, hope takes flight not just metaphorically, but quite literally. Once extinct in central Europe, today, these birds are reclaiming their skies, thanks to the unwavering...
View ArticleThe Fault of Time
Erica Berry takes us on a journey from predictability to uncertainty recalling a visit with her grandparents after horrific Montana wildfires and charred ponderosa pines. “To love the trees, to live...
View ArticleThe Feminine Principle and Balance of Power
"Personal growth and human development are as old as the hills perhaps two of the more popular banners flapping in the breeze [in] the 21st century. So what’s new? Aren’t these two old chestnuts that...
View ArticleMimes Directing Traffic in Bogotá Had Surprisingly Loud Impacts
In 1995, a mayoral candidate in Bogota, Colombia, began his campaign with a slogan: “arm yourself with love.” Past efforts to “mitigate waves of violence with, well, violence, had proven ineffective.”...
View ArticleOn Community: The More-Than-Human World
Instead of imposing our human world onto the “more-than-human” world, Tess James helps us understand how the world arrives for her. “I step into the human world through the mirror of the...
View ArticleTwo Sides of the Orchard
In 2011, Ezra Sullivan joined a harvest crew in an apple orchard at the base of the Andes Mountains in Argentina. Half of the orchard was well tended in neat rows. They worked it in a task focused,...
View ArticleIn the Wake of LA Fire Destruction, 3 Faiths Worship Together
The First United Methodist Church on Colorado Boulevard in Pasadena, CA is a landmark on the Rose Parade route to which people throng every New Year’s Day. Now, it is a safe space for two other...
View ArticleAs their car rolled downhill, a stranger rushed in to help
In what was a life-changing and potentially life-saving experience, a young stranger saw a car rolling backwards, chased after it, and was able to stop it right before it would have rolled into a busy...
View ArticleLessons from a Physician About Hope
Dr. Leif Hass shares what he has learned about hope as a foundational element to healing, “what stifles it, what helps it spring forth, what social settings and cognitive states nurture it, and what...
View ArticleSoaring: Birds and their Human Foster Parents
For the northern bald ibis bird, hope takes flight not just metaphorically, but quite literally. Once extinct in central Europe, today, these birds are reclaiming their skies, thanks to the unwavering...
View ArticleTrading Cards of Unexpected Heroes Go Viral in Rural Japan Town
In the rural Japan town of Kawara, young kids are collecting trading cards “where the stars aren’t fantasy creatures, anime heroes or even famous baseball players, but ojisan (middle-aged or older...
View ArticleOn Moral Imagination
At age 25, Jacqueline Novogratz left a Wall Street career to co-found a microfinance bank in Rwanda. Read about a life-changing experience that was a turning point in which she said, “Every one of us...
View ArticleWill AI Strengthen or Weaken Human Connections?
"In the face of overlapping mental health crises among young people and a mounting loneliness epidemic, technologists, investors and product developers are racing to build generative AI products to...
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