A Sacred Space to Be Whole: Reimagining Mental Health and Spirituality

No Sustainability without Spirituality

War, environmental degradation, racism—it appears that polarization has a death grip on every aspect of our world, including our democracy. I believe the sustainability of humanity depends on the interpretation of the word “spirituality.” There may be no other word...

A Study of Spirituality in the United States Since COVID

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE SPIRITUAL? How do spirituality and faith animate our daily lives, particularly during COVID and similar times of challenge? These are the questions at the heart of Fetzer’s "Study of Spirituality in the United States...

We Need Whole Child Development to Help Children Recover from the Pandemic

More than two years into a global pandemic we continue to witness the effects of the Coronavirus, and one of the groups that has suffered most is children. At the pandemic's peak, more than 1.5 billion children worldwide were out...

Where Faith Meets Medicine: Reclaiming Dignity Through Sacred Listening in Maharashtra

Lakou Tanama: Faith-Inclusive Healing Spaces Supporting Haitians in Crisis

Americans’ Connections with the Transcendent: Study Finds Spirituality Provides Resilience

To many people, religiosity and spirituality are two ways of saying the same thing. But the recently released "What Does Spirituality Mean to Us? A Study of Spirituality in the United States Since COVID," along with its 2020 predecessor, makes...

Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality for Use in Health Research

This publication is the product of a national working group that examined key dimensions of religiousness/spirituality as they relate to physical and mental health outcomes. Its 12 papers include brief literature reviews, recommended instruments, and bibliographies for each of the...

Biologos and the Center for Christogenesis: Finding Sacred Truth at the Intersection of Faith and Science

Biologos and the Center for Christogenesis might appear to be on opposite sides of the spirituality and science debate. Yet both organizations exist principally to help people of faith reconcile the two disciplines—positing that science and spirituality are not in...

Is Spirituality an Indicator of Human Flourishing? 

What does it mean to live well? To be truly healthy? To thrive? Researchers and clinicians have typically answered these questions by focusing on the presence or absence of various pathologies: disease, family disfunction, mental illness, or criminal behavior. But...