The End of Disease?
Is illness morally evil, or is it the morally neutral result of organisms like viruses and bacteria and cancer cells all doing their best to survive and replicate, just as they were created to do?
Posts tagged with ‘Healing’
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How the Days of Awe Nourish Our Emotions
Amid the sweetness and celebration of Rosh Hashana, rituals like Yizkor and hearing the sound of the shofar open up access to emotions that we often bottle up.
How Scientific Questioning Impacts Faith
Answering difficult questions about the world and comforting people in a time of need requires the best wisdom from both religion and science.
The Quest for Perfect Vision
The quest for perfect vision—or any other repair or improvement in our physical bodies—often obscures bigger-picture things, like the moral and ethical implications of such research.
Can Americans Learn to Grieve?
How can the workplace and our other social institutions help dispel the myth that everyone is just in it for themselves?
How Do We Deal With Fear?
Can religion — as a source of creative meaning — “inoculate” us against the fears that naturally arise?
It’s Time to Zoom Out
We shouldn’t stop consulting traditional world maps, with their borders and demarcations. But we could probably all benefit from a glance at the Pale Blue Dot map, too.
Where Does Trauma Reside?
What scientific and religious tools can we use to help us deal with trauma?
We Need Light to See Each Other
We are mindful of that web that connects all of us, and we will, God-willing, emerge to tread more softly, honoring one another in our shared human vulnerability.
What Time Is It in America?
When we join hands we do so with wounds still open.
