Recently I read the book, “ Cheering for the Children ” by Casey Gwinn. This is an amazing book and while not written for church leaders or children’s ministers it is a worthwhile read to anyone...
Beware the mention of natural causes, as in my mother's obituary: "Norita Wyse Berman, a writer, stockbroker and artist ... died at home Friday of natural causes. She was 60." Sixty-year-olds don't die of natural causes anymore. The truth was...
Is our culture of relentless achievement and success driving our young people to suicide? You would certainly think so, given the prevailing narrative in the media about the recent spate of suicides on college campuses: one high-achieving student...
Twenty percent of children are picky eaters but most grow out it. Research suggests that picky eating can also be a sign for hypersensitities that can occasionally cause social anxiety and depression. [To listen to this story go to http://www.npr.org/2015/08/03/...more-than-a-nuisance ]
Thomas Jefferson's vision of democracy has endured in one of the defining documents of U.S. history. But the 607 slaves who toiled in his Monticello estate have left few traces to remember them by. "To understand Thomas Jefferson,...
First, a timeline: On July 13th, Sandra Bland was found dead in her jail cell. The 28-year-old African-American woman had been arrested in Hempstead, the county seat of Waller County, Texas, on the charge of assaulting a police...
On a windy Tuesday evening at a classroom by the sea, dozens of students looked up from their books as the monsoon rode in on black clouds — first a taunting drizzle, and then a Biblical deluge sweeping down and under flip-flops and...
For many African Americans, tuning into the nightly news and skimming through social media timelines has become an exercise in maintaining psychological well-being. The barrage of videos in which police officers attack and kill black people,...
High levels of job stress may increase the risk of sick leave due to mental health disorders, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed data from nearly 12,000 workers in Sweden. Over five years, about 8 percent of the workers took mental...
What makes a baby laugh? The answer might reveal a lot about the making of our minds, says Tom Stafford. What makes babies laugh? It sounds like one of the most fun questions a researcher could investigate, but there’s a serious scientific...
For all their social benefits, electric vehicles have so far remained the province of the rich. Snazzy Teslas start at $70,000, BMW’s i3 will set you back $43,000, and even the relatively cheap Ford Focus Electric and Nissan Leaf cost...
"Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born...
Genetics describes DNA sequencing, but epigenetics sees that genes can be turned on and off and expressed differently through changes in environment and behavior. Rachel Yehuda is a pioneer in understanding how the effects of stress and trauma...
Rachel Yehuda, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience and the director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine speaks with Krista Tippitt, host of On-Being , about how trauma and resilience cross...
A friend and I were sharing how powerful this cover is and how it's a time when both rape survivors and incest survivors feel bonded. The stories told and the way women were responded to (or not responded to) resonates with survivors of adult sexual...