Why We Need More Play, Recreation, and Leisure in Our Lives
The author Stuart Brown, M.D., details the intriguing encounter between a twelve-hundred-pound Polar Bear and a Canadian Eskimo sled dog in the book Play: How...
Why Is Gen Z Disconnecting from the Church?
The decline in church attendance in the U.S. over the last few decades has been widely discussed and written about. Young adults who have...
Reflections on the 2018 Human Trafficking Research Conference
When I hear the words “research conference,” I think of poster boards filled with charts and data, PowerPoint slides full of acronyms, or abstract...
Breaking Poverty’s Cycles
What can we do in response to a global and local crisis?
In September 2015, a photograph of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi's limp body on a...
How Do We Live Like Every Day Is Earth Day?
How can we talk about sustainability in a way that motivates us to keep striving for better, while encouraging others to join us on...
What Disney Gets Wrong About Its Princesses and Heroines
How far has Disney come from its early days of promoting traditional and limiting gender roles? This is an especially potent question today at...
After Mass Tragedy: Moving Beyond Our Initial Response
In December 2017, the fires in Ventura, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Diego, California, were still burning when the vast majority of news...
Women & STEM
Although there are talented women in every field, the gender gap in many science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields is well documented.
According to...
The Courage to Listen Well
You’re hiking along a shallow stream, green foliage to your left and right, sharp stones pressing through the soles of your boots. You spot...
Charlottesville: How to Heal
The news coming out of Charlottesville, Va., was disturbing on many levels, but one piece of news made my body tense and my head...
Adventuresome Civility: The Brave Work of Finding Common Ground
This season is brimming with questions of who we are to each other — how we should relate to each other in the spaces...
How Much Do Our Words Matter?
Although we have always known it intuitively, science has confirmed the tremendous power our words have on ourselves, communities, and the world. In fact,...
