A letter to my goddaughter on the occasion of her First Communion
St. John said, "We love because He first loved us." This means our capacity to love comes directly from God, that it can’t be taken away, that it will never end.
Mary Baker Eddy
Christmas: The hope of health and healing for us all
‘A life of meaning and purpose is one focused less on satisfying oneself and more on others. It is a life rich in compassion, altruism and greater meaning.’
A spiritual perspective on California’s death penalty initiatives
Whoever wrote “An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth” wasn’t saying people can’t be reformed, only that there are times when they shouldn’t be allowed to.
Is racism contagious?
Chances are that we do more to protect ourselves from the common cold than any tendency we may have to see people of another race as a threat to our well-being.
Is The Force in ‘Star Wars’ a metaphor for God?
What’s depicted in “Star Wars” is not a moral but an amoral force; that is, something lacking any particular moral standard and, therefore, very much unlike God.
TEDMED conference inspires fresh thinking about health
The ideas that have the greatest impact on health and medicine aren’t confined to any one field of endeavor or period of history.
There is a cure for Alzheimer’s
To say there is no cure for a particular disease is not to say that no one has ever been cured of that disease.
Exercising our ‘inalienable right’ to better health
‘God has built a higher platform of human rights, and He has built it on diviner claims.’
Can you cure your body with your mind?
After years of suffering from a debilitating disease, author Danea Horn made a commitment to herself: ‘You will heal yourself with your mind.’
Training yourself to think differently
‘Be very careful how you interpret things, because you’re looking at the world with a bias, whether you think you are or not.’
The ‘preposterous’ proliferation of preconditions
The rush to label people with one medical condition or another has gotten out of hand. What’s the cost? What’s the remedy?
New Year’s Revelation: Father Time is a liar
According to the Wall Street Journal, it’s possible that everything we think about aging may be wrong.
Does being spiritual and religious make you uncool?
Maybe not, especially when you consider that the moral uplift that comes from regular study of scriptures often leads to better health.
Moving from the right to die to the desire to live
Brittany Maynard’s decision to 'die with dignity' provides an opportunity to look at life and death in an entirely new light.
A little humility can lead to a lot of health
'None of us in medicine have the answers we tell you we have,' says Betsy Nabel, 'because the universe of what we don’t know dwarfs that of what we do.'
Are you identifying yourself as a disease?
Despite our best efforts to distance ourselves from this or that condition, there are powerful forces pushing us to do the opposite.
Mistaking our genetic makeup for the human spirit
‘Our genome sequence is the genetic blueprint of our biological self, but how much does it, or will we let it, define who we are?’
Would you ever talk to a Christian Scientist about health?
‘Having a conversation with a Christian Scientist about health care is like asking the Amish how to drive a car.’ Ouch.
TEDMED 2014: ‘The time for thinkers has come’
The ideas that have the greatest impact on health and medicine aren’t confined to any one field of endeavor or period of history.
Back to school: Better grades don’t require abuse of prescription drugs
Asking kids to ‘just say no’ is not enough, especially when the apparent reward outweighs whatever risk is involved.