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Joy
Emotions
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Why You Need to Make Time for Play
You might be surprised about the benefits of play for your wellbeing and your spiritual health. Here's how to get more in your life.
Agility
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Motherhood and Thriving: Navigating with Grace
What serves to ground, connect, and direct towards joy? Dr. Pam King asks this question as a guide for Mothers and others.
Joy
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We Really Can’t Do it All: Destigmatizing Human Limitations to Reclaim Joy
Reclaim joy through examining the rhythms of your life. A series of questions will help you explore.
Joy
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News
Unwrapping the Science of Joy
The story "Unwrapping the Science of Joy" is now published in Templeton Ideas!
Joy
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Research Project
The Joyride Project
This project seeks to integrate the theological and psychological perspectives of joy and flourishing.
Joy
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Video
Cultivating Our Capacity for Joy
How can we cultivate our joy “muscles?” Pamela Ebstyne King, executive director at the Thrive Center, speaks on what is required for our joy training and the benefits of joy at the 2018 Future of Joy Conference, hosted by the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. Author’s Note This talk was given at the Yale Center for Faith and Culture.
Emotions
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Moral Elevation (Part 2): Practices for Elevating Ourselves and Our World
Postdoctoral Researcher, Dr. Susan Mangan provides research-based activities to help us experience the positive emotion of elevation.
Emotions
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Moral Elevation (Part 1): The Snowball Effect of Small Inspirations
Dr. Susan Mangan explains the role and benefits of moral elevation in inspiring us to help our communities.
Joy
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Research Link
Joy as a Virtue: The Means and Ends of Joy (Portugues (Brasil))
Citation King, P. E., & Defoy, F. (2021). Alegria como virtude: Os meios e finsda alegria. (Joy as a virtue: The means and ends of joy). Journal of Teleological Science, 1(1), 117-163. Abstract To grasp human flourishing and thriving, we must understand joy. However, no theoretical models explain the complexity of joy as a fruit of the Spirit, nor fully account for its impact on human life. We suggest that joy is best conceptualized as a virtue, a psychological habit, comprised of characteristic adaptations and given meaning by transcendent narrative…
Joy
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Vocation as becoming: Telos, thriving and joy
Citation King, P. E. (2021). Vocation as becoming: Telos, thriving and joy. In Seminary Student Vocation Formation (eds. David J. Downs, Tina Houston-Armstrong, and Amos Yong). Vocation, Formation, and Theological Education: Interdisciplinary Perspectives from Fuller Theological Seminary. Claremont, CA: Claremont Press, p. 185-210. Abstract This volume represents one set of reflections on issues of vocation, formation, and theological education in the first quarter of the twenty-first century. Each of the contributors to the volume is (or was, in one case) a faculty member at Fuller Theological Seminary, an institution that, like many others, has been wrestling seriously with the global...