Thinking About the End of the World
The media had fun, as it periodically does, when a fundamentalist preacher declares the end of the world. But there was a jittery feeling, too, because for the first time since the end of the Cold War,...
View ArticleBombs Go Off in Boston on Marathon Monday
According to reports on social media, several bombs exploded today near the course of the Boston Marathon. Full coverage has not yet emerged on the incident, as reporters are apparently “in lockdown at...
View ArticleRebecca Pacheco on the Boston Marathon Bombing: Now What?
If you know me, you know that I love the Boston Marathon. I ran it in 2009. I cheer myself hoarse and crazy as a spectator. I prepare athletes for race day and help them recover afterward with yoga....
View ArticleWhy Tragedies Like the Boston Marathon Bombing Inspire Greatness
Why? That’s the leading question from many when they think about the Boston Marathon bombings earlier this week, especially since there still remains much speculation around the reasons for this event....
View Article6 Steps to Renew Your Faith in Humanity
By Dawn Gluskin In light of the recent events in Boston, many of us are walking around with heavy hearts. We search for answers. Why? How can such evil exist in our world? We grieve for the lost lives...
View ArticleWhy Last Monday Changed My Life: A Boston Marathon Mom’s Story
By Christine Cronin Monday started as a happy, exciting day. The day had arrived, a day we had been waiting for, for months. We would see our son Ryan cross the finish line of the famed Boston...
View ArticleThe Mom Who Stood Up to the London Knife Attackers
Wednesday’s grisly murder of a British soldier by two knife-wielding attackers has left many wondering – Why? How? In broad daylight? With witnesses standing all around? Many sources are referring to...
View ArticleHappy Malala Day! Honoring the Young Activist the Taliban Couldn’t Kill
Last fall, Malala Yousafzai was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman who apprehended her on a school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. She was 15 years old. Miraculously, Malala survived the attack, and...
View ArticleVOD: Malala Yousafzai Interview on The Daily Show
She risked her life to stand up for girl’s education in Pakistan. She survived a gun-shot to the head for those beliefs. She is a best-selling author. And now, at only 16 years old, Malala Yousafzai is...
View ArticleHow to Save the World–A Simple Answer
Around a decade ago, when I first started posting at Huffington Post, one entry considered the world’s four greatest problems. They were over-population, climate change, pandemic disease, and...
View ArticleA Response to Terrorism: 5 Ways to Bring About Change
By Michael Bianco-Splann Once again the world is infused with a sense of horror and shock by the heinous attacks on innocent Parisians enjoying a Friday night in the City of Lights. And our collective...
View ArticleCan the Problem of Evil Be Solved Or Only Contained?
By Deepak Chopra, MD ISIS and its atrocious acts have thrown the issue of evil into high relief. Once more we are forced to confront a horrifying aspect of human nature and to ask ourselves what can...
View ArticleReligion and Terrorism: The of Self-Deception
From Mark Chironna Psychologist Tori DeAngelis asserts, “the psychology of terrorism is marked more by theory and opinion than by good science”. Nevertheless, there are researchers in the field of...
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