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Why Morality Matters: Gratitude, Loyalty, and Hope, with Dr. Mona Siddiqui
You can’t be moral on your own. That’s a radical idea in this time of moral outrage, but thriving in public life requires a sense of mutual accountability, belonging, and hospitality for each other. Mona Siddiqui is a professor of religion and society, an author, commentator, and public intellectual, and she suggests that the virtues of loyalty, gratitude, hospitality, and hope can lead us through the common struggle of being human together, living *forward* into a thriving life of public faith and renewed moral imagination. As Professor of Islamic and Interreligious Studies, Assistant Principal for Religion and Society, and Dean...
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Hope vs. optimism: Can someone be hopeless and optimistic?
Hope vs. Optimism? What’s the difference between these concepts and can someone be hopeless and optimistic?
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Patience: The Missing Link in Your New Year’s Resolutions
Most people don't achieve their New Year's resolutions. Here's how to approach your goals in a new way to sustain your journey.
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What is the Advent season?
What is the advent season all about? We’ll tell you all about the history, when it starts, and how it’s celebrated.
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First Sunday of Advent: Hope
The first Sunday of Advent represents hope. Discover the history, relevant scripture, and how it fits into the Advent season.
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Hope Outside of Religion (Part 1)
How Can We Help Those Who Have Left the Church Find Sources of Hope?
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A Practice: Questions to Build Hope
Questions That Promote Hopeful Conversations about Existential Thoughts
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Summer of Love: Is it Possible to Create a More Loving World?
Love is more than a feeling. It is a conscious decision, and requires practices and skills in order to live it out.
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Agentic and Receptive Hope: Understanding Hope in the Context of Religiousness and Spirituality through the Narratives of Salvadoran Youth
Citation Vaughn, J. M., King, P. E., Mangan, S., Noe, S., Hay, S., O’neil, B., … & Sim, A. T. R. (2022). Agentic and receptive hope: Understanding hope in the context of religiousness and spirituality through the narratives of Salvadoran youth. Religions, 13(4), 376. Abstract Hope contributes to positive development in adolescents, and religious and spiritual contexts may be particularly important for developing and supporting hope. However, extant literature on hope, religion, and spirituality neglects their synergistic relation, leaving questions about how they work together to support development. In this study, we explore how religiousness and spirituality (R/S) inform hope...
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The Wows and Woes of Graduation: Traversing Transition with Hope
Dr. Pamela King reflects on her hopes for her son as he graduates high school and her new role as a partner in this next phase of their lives.
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Anchored in Hope
Citation King, P. E. (2020). Anchored in hope. In C. Lee (Ed.) Integration as Integrity: Christian Therapist as Peacemaker. Wipf and Stock Publishers. Abstract What is “integration”? Christians serving in the psychological professions have long debated the proper way to understand the relationship between “psychology” on the one hand, and “theology” or “Christianity” or “the Christian faith” on the other. This book argues for understanding integration as a matter of personal integrity: it’s not about bridging or blending academic disciplines, but about having a coherent vocational identity. What narrative will hold together both our core identity as Christians and our...