At the core of nursing is the ability to love a stranger, to care indiscriminately. Christie Watson was a nurse in the UK for 20 y...
Though magazines and movie stars try to convince us otherwise, we aren’t all living our BEST LIFE NOW. When humor writer Samanth...
What does it mean to be blessed? If you were to scroll through social media, you'd assume that "blessed" are the ones with gorgeou...
Are some people more empathetic than others? By studying those on the opposite end of the compassion spectrum--those with psychopa...
Sometimes it feels like the world is irreparably broken. A climate crisis leading to more hurricanes, fires, warming oceans, a pol...
There are some secrets we'd rather not tell, but that eat us alive anyway. Writer Susan Burton was trapped in an eating disorder w...
How do doctors, nurses, and other caring professionals keep their hearts soft when there are forces that make it hard to stay that...
What does it mean to be called to something? What if that job wears you thin? What if you think you've aged out of your vocation? ...
What do you do when all hope feels lost? Abstract artist Lanecia Rouse Tinsley is no stranger to the hopelessness that comes with ...
Who are we as we age? Our culture has such poor language for the who-we-are-ness across time. The ways we grow and the things that...
We have thick cultural scripts for what is deemed inspirational and it usually goes like this: You can do it. Never give up. Every...
Our lives have shrunk and our choices have been dramatically restricted. But the obligations never stopped, did they? How do we ge...
What does it feel like to really live? Some people jump out of airplanes. Others prefer for their feet to stay on the floor. Some ...
Parenting isn't always Instagram-worthy, but the American myth of perfectionism rarely shows that messy middle. Kristen Howerton, ...
What do we do when the institutions that are supposed to protect us, fail? As a child, Rachael Denhollander was sexually abused by...
Ray Hinton spent 30 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit. With the help of justice lawyer Bryan Stevenson, Ray won hi...
When a group of young moms died around the same time, clinicians Justin Yopp and Don Rosenstein wanted to refer their widowed spou...
What if your life hasn't turned out like you thought it would? When writer Heather Lanier's daughter was born with a rare genetic ...
Timothy Omundson knows what it feels like to make something, then have well-made plans come apart after he suffered a massive stro...
When Jason Rosenthal’s wife died, she left him a gift that he couldn’t even have known to ask for—in the form of a viral Mod...
Sarah Bessey speaks right to the soft spot where our deepest pain and deepest hope meet. The place where in the bleakest of nights...
Wes Moore had a rough childhood growing up in Baltimore. His father died when he was a child, he struggled in school and was arres...
Certain people decide to make other people's pain their own. Gary Haugen, founder and CEO of International Justice Mission, is one...
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