At a time when the Roman Catholic Church in the United States is alienating more people than welcoming them, they seem to have found a new friend in Bill W. The Colorado Springs diocese has decided to ...

Hans Pols receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Gemma Lucy Smart does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from ...

The religious slanging match that divides the media of the western world – Dawkins v Creation, Allah v Hitchens, however you like to define it – disguises the actual state of play in the world at ...

A quarter century ago, Franciscan Fr. Richard Rohr gave a series of talks in Cincinnati that linked the wisdom of the Twelve Steps Program to what St. Francis called “the marrow of the gospel.” “I was ...

James B. is a coauthor of my book The Craving Brain: Science, Spirituality, and the Road to Recovery. The following is a beautiful description of a profound moment in the healing process from his ...

Science has never revealed as much about addiction—potential genetic causes, influences, and triggers, and the resultant brain activity—or offered as many opportunities and methods for initial ...

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places." —Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms Kintsugi is the Japanese art of recognizing and celebrating beauty in broken ...