In religious traditions, patience is more than waiting, or even more than enduring a hardship. But what does patience look like? And when should we not exercise patience?
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Stories in Greek mythology on the cycle of nature showing youth, death and rejuvenation can have lessons for us today on how grief changes over time and transforms who we are as people.
For Buffett, escapism was not merely some fiddling flight of fancy. It acknowledged the brutalities and indignities of everyday life.
A scholar of Roman Catholicism explains why Pope Francis’ visit to Mongolia, home to fewer than 1,500 Catholics, is significant.
Bill C-7 has created ethical tensions between MAID providers and palliative care, between transparency and patient privacy, and between offering a dignified death rather than a dignified life.
Since 2016, Canada’s practice of offering MAID has followed a trajectory of ever-expanding eligibility. The ultimate expansion would make MAID available to anyone who wanted it, for any reason.
A look at whether modern Buddhists adhere to the faith’s original religious principles or simply guilty of a cherrypicking cultural appropriation that turns religion into a fad.
Pessimism, as explored by the philosopher Schopenhauer, offers tools to come to terms with the idea that refusing to relentlessly pursue happiness is perhaps the most reasonable attitude.
The field of ‘monster studies’ looks at how texts reflect ideas about what’s evil, weird or scary.
The answer could lie in evolution.
A scholar of digital religion and Buddhism argues that not all Western Buddhism practice is inauthentic. Here’s a way to know what’s real.
Christians have engaged in passionate debates over the meaning of the resurrection. Baptists may be distinct in that they believe an external religious authority cannot enforce views on such matters.
If Dostoevsky insists that one cannot shy away from horror and tragedy, Tolstoy would contend that people must act upon what they see.
On World Kindness Day, a scholar of Buddhist studies explains its idea of compassion and the diverse ways to think about and express kindness.
Some therapists are calling for a new way to understand human distress.
Driven by a desire to eliminate pain, some people have shockingly advocated taking the rest of nature with us.
Families who lost their loved ones during the pandemic could not even properly grieve. Greek epics show why lamentation and memorial are so important and what we can learn in these times.
The problems of suffering and evil emerging in the coronavirus pandemic occupy popular evangelical fiction. In ‘The Shack,’ proliferating divine beings harken to a long-standing solution.
Images of famine or poverty are often used by human rights groups to galvanize support. And they often do. The ethics of these images is a more complex story.
More than 2,000 Canadians have chosen medical assistance in dying (MAID) since legalization in 2016. But palliative care doctors aren’t embracing assisted suicide as part of their job.
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Professor of American Literature and Religion, University of Victoria
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Associate Professor of Russian Literature, University of Kansas
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Lecturer, Philosophy of Traditional Judaism, Colorado State University
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Assistant Professor of Psychology and Research Associate in the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State
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Professor of Psychology, University of Toronto
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Professor of Psychology, Management, University of Toronto
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Assistant Professor, Palliative Physician, Queen's University, Ontario
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Associate Professor of Nursing, University of Lethbridge
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Lecturer in Hispanic Studies, University of Aberdeen
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Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy and Law, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor, Public Health and Alberta Innovates Research Chair, University of Lethbridge
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Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Rhodes College
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Research Associate - Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Lethbridge
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Visiting Researcher,, University of Oxford
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Head and Professor, Religious Studies Department, University of North Carolina – Greensboro
