What Gives my Life Meaning? Is it Caring?
Meaning as used here refers to thinking, caring and acting with purpose. Purpose refers to goals whereas meaning consists … Read More
Setting Priorities for Amelioration of Global Threats
The first half of 2017 has tossed the world order into a new set of vulnerabilities not previously experienced. We … Read More
Historical Views of Suffering and Societal Betterment
This article traces the history of the concept of suffering in order to understand how beliefs about suffering and the … Read More
South Sudan and the Ethics of Aid for Poverty & Suffering
South Sudan became an independent nation in 2011, but within the year, armed conflict began between warring clans and ethnic … Read More
The Extremely Negative Rhetoric of President Trump’s Tweets
Donald Trump is the first President to use Twitter to regularly communicate with his public. As of late 2019 he … Read More
A New Framework for Suffering-Alleviation
Society’s institutions to address major world suffering can be divided into four social sectors: humanitarian, social policy, informal … Read More
Pope Francis and Humanitarian Action
From the time of his election in 2013, Pope Francis stood out as a spiritual leader who put service to … Read More
Syria – War, Refugees, & Human Rights in 2017
The United Nations High Commission Refugees (UNHCR), in partnership with Google launched a website called Searching for Syria. (www.searchingforsyria.org) … Read More
Holocaust “Stealth Altruism”: Victims as Upstanders
“Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question,” or so maintains the poet e.e. Cummings (Collected Poems, 1926, … Read More
Drastic Rise in Negative Views of Higher Education
The Pew Research Survey of American adults in June 2017 discovered a disturbing trend: most (58%) of the Republicans gave … Read More