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Hope
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Hope: The First Light
If you aren't feeling hopeful these days, intentionally practicing hope can propel your life forward in positive directions. Here's how.
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A Practice: The Hope Worksheet
This is a hope focused goal-setting guide to help you develop agency and make a plan for returning hope to your life.
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Episode
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: How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions
Most people don't sustain 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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