After performing 30 funerals for possibly preventable deaths during his first year in small-town North Carolina, pastor Richard Joyner set out to find a path toward healing for both congregants and the community. Decades later, here’s how a small Baptist congregation and its neighbors are reaping physical and social wellbeing.
Wisdom is not on a throne or in a temple. When Proverbs closes in a 21-verse acrostic that sums up the book, Wisdom is found caring for family, leading a company, and, yes, trading in the marketplace.
In politics. At church. Online. Just look around and you’ll see we’ve got an addiction to being right — and loudly. Is it truth we’re after or something else?
Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Chances are, when you read or pray Jesus’ words from the Gospels, you’re not thinking about how God’s will for humanity plays out in your day job. Maybe you’ve never even thought about your job’s significance beyond your paycheck. There’s a …
While the data around children and technology is not wholly conclusive, statistics do point toward healthier lifestyles when technology use is structured and monitored, which is what START is striving to help parents and teachers discover.
Why those at the nation’s most prestigious university place the search for human flourishing in the empirical sciences.
Somehow, that we should love what we do became an axiom. But the romance might be fleeting.
Anne Porter was a wife and mother of five, and her family’s busy South Hampton home became a respite for friends suffering breakups and mental health crises. One particularly busy summer, Anne wrote to her mother that they seemed to have gained the reputation as “rest home for broken-down New Yorkers.” Those childrearing years — …
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Earlier this year, Reagan-era statesman George Shultz died. And amid the celebrations and reflections on his life and work, one of his defining routines resurfaced, what one New York Times writer calls the “Shultz hour.”
The error in all our policy responses to the pandemic hasn’t been that we lack the desire to help those forced out of their livelihoods. The error is the notion that the government alone can fix the problem.
In his new book, the unmistakable Japanese-American painter suggests a way, a practice, of knowing God and the world that isn’t expressed in art — it starts there.
What about crypto? So you can understand what everyone is talking about.
