What to do when the news is too much to bear? This summer ended with two mass shootings in a single day. These events left Americans feeling lost and helpless, wondering what we could to do to set things right. Here’s how home can be a lifeboat in uncertain times, providing comfort and serenity — and a place to gather strength.
With some simple guidelines for conversation, Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt help us move beyond our “fight or flight” response to discover new levels of empathy and compassion. The benefits—better relationships at home and a saner way of dealing with cultural differences.
My interest in R & R (restoring and repurposing) along with my prior experience as an executive coach, led me to volunteer at the Restoration Project, a retail shop and vocational rehabilitation program for adolescents and adults with emotional and neurological challenges.
No matter how you slice it, the future of the planet depends on our ability to come together in community and change the way we live.
Wendell Berry says, “Part of manners used to be to say to somebody you just met, Where are you from?” I quit asking because so many people say… everywhere and nowhere.”
Since 2003 dedicated church members across the country have been helping low-income families and individuals with the wash.
The dark side of the American Dream: Many families are one missed paycheck, one hospital bill, one mishap away from eviction and stand to lose their homes — for good.
No one captures America’s transition from homesteading to rootlessness better than the heartland writer Marilynne Robinson. In her luminous novel, Housekeeping, she asks: Are some of us natural nesters and others born vagabonds?