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• How Play in Nature Feeds Our Spirits and Improves Health

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  How Play in Nature Feeds our Spirits and Improves Health by Jessica Palys French Jesuit and scientist Pierre Tielhard de Chardin once said, “Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.” But busy lives and faithful devotion tend towards seriousness and stress rather than the playfulness that opens us up to easy laughter Read More

• Mere Words or Truths?

  Joseph Harrington
  

  We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. I have been and remain troubled by what seems like an uptick in the spate of deaths involving uniformed police Read More

• The Power of Love to Save Babies’ Lives

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  Infant Mortality:  How social support for mothers can reduce stress and improve infant health and survival rates among African American and Latina women and their children The following is an interview with the Rev. Dr. Shirley Gwendolyn Eloby Fleming, Co-Director of The Center for Faith and Community Health Transformation and Director of Faith Health Promotion Read More