Casual Sex is not More Fun or Less Complicated

Our casual hookup culture may promise greater independence and excitement. It's a means to sex without too many (or any) strings attached. But that ...

Harvard Professor Worries 'Is Life Cosmically Irrelevant?'

Harvard professor James Wood, in a New Yorker article "Is That All There Is?" tells of a friend, a philosopher and a convinced atheist, who ...

A Rising Plague of Melancholy

Research reveals that depression is now the most common serious medical or mental health disorder in the United States. According to the World Health ...

Without Hope, Suicide Rates Rise

In a powerful article titled "Dying of Despair," psychiatrist Aaron Kheriaty observes the startling rise in deaths from suicide and drug overdoses. ...

Belgian Hotel Rents Fish to Lonely Guests

Traveling by yourself isn't always the most fun: You might start to miss home, your family, your friends. A hotel in Belgium has come up with an idea ...

Women Face Conflicting Advice When Juggling Work, Home, and Personal Life

In 2013 Sheryl Sandberg, a Harvard Business School grad, a former assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury, and Chief Operating Officer of Facebook, ...

Terminal Cancer Patients Question Life's Meaning

William Breitbart, the chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at New York's Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, specializes ...

Latino Christian Laments Lack of American Friendships

"In Mexico they wanted to be my friends because they wanted to do missions to me, but when I moved to the United States no one wanted to be my friend." ...

Climber Trapped in Crevasse Goes Deeper into the Void

In her book The Vulnerable Pastor, Mandy Smith tells the story of mountaineer Joe Simpson, shared in Simpson's memoir Touching The Void:

Thousands ...

Secular Writer Discovers Her Child's 'Prayer Life'

In an article in The New York Times Magazine, writer Dana Tierney described how both she and her husband John had rejected their childhood faith. They ...