With guidance, her anger could become a force for good. I’ve since begun teaching Neff’s Fierce Self-Compassion program, ...

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While there are high-level critics of diversity today, research finds that diversity is good for society—and it has a long ...

When the Commonwealth Club World Affairs, in San Francisco, invited me to interview Steele about the book, I jumped at the ...

A new study suggests that caring for a grandchild helps improve your thinking and memory and may help prevent cognitive ...

While sex can become compulsive and problematic for some people, there is little research on love as a true addiction.

Judging someone’s thoughts or actions should take into account how much agency they have and the good or bad they are doing.

It’s time again for the Greater Goodies, honoring movies from the past year that exemplify human strengths and virtues.

For Christians, forgiveness and love are the two cardinal virtues. Even back then, however, that prescient administrator ...

There is pressure to forgive in many settings, including the church. But this culture can change—and people can find more ...

At the end of winter break at a West St. Paul, Minnesota, elementary school, more than 50 students did not return to class. At the time, federal immigration agents were conducting military-style ...

When life feels rough, our instinct may be to retreat and withdraw from the world. But reaching out and helping others can make our lives more full by increasing our sense of significance, and ...