Topic Archive
Joy
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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Unwrapping the Science of Joy
The story "Unwrapping the Science of Joy" is now published in Templeton Ideas!
Joy
Research Project
The Joyride Project
This project seeks to integrate the theological and psychological perspectives of joy and flourishing.
Joy
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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.
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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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Joy as a Virtue: The Means and Ends of Joy
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 identity. Thus joy involves knowing, feeling, and enacting what matters most. Developmental science and Christian theological approaches to teleology inform the ultimate ends to which joy is aimed. They suggest that telos, the purpose or goal of development, may be understood as a...
Joy
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Vocation as becoming: Telos, thriving and joy
Authors: Pamela Ebstyne King (Page 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 transformation of theological education for at least the past decade. With the generous support of Fuller’s Office of Vocation and Formation, the editors of this volume–all of whom at the time of the project’s origins directed the...
Joy
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Dad Jokes: Science Agrees we Need More Laughter
Research shows that humor can ease stress during hard times. Dr. Susan Mangan shares 3 evidence-based practices to help us get started.
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Joy Competencies (Part 2): How to Make Joy Our Lifeline During Hard Times
How do you become more joyful?
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