Repeated disappointment has a way of hardening expectations and making hope feel risky, even naive. Here is reassurance that hope doesn't disappear after disappointment; it simply changes form, ...

Living with bipolar disorder can test your sense of hope. Yet with purpose, support, and connection, it can be rediscovered and renewed. Hope guides us through our darkest times. Without it, we stay ...

A man wrote to me two weeks after his wife had died, and then again a couple of weeks later. He was ambivalent about this blog, on one hand finding the shared experience validating and on the other ...

(RNS) — At a time of upheaval, the Duke University theologian and environmentalist urges people to connect to others and nature. (RNS) — Norman Wirzba was not expecting that his book of essays about ...

The point is that progress moves so slowly at times that it can seem almost imperceptible. But steady effort over time can ...

These are difficult times. Many of us are feeling isolated from others and a sense of disconnection from what matters to us. And the hits keep coming. In 2023, former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy ...

James Cole can’t help but gush over his twelve-year-old daughter, Emmy. “She consistently amazes us,” says Cole of the tween who was just two years old when she was diagnosed with high-risk ...

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