The Bene Gesserit litany against fear from Dune is surprisingly good psychology. Fear is the mind killer. This is the striking first line in the Bene Gesserit litany against fear. Dune fans have long ...

It can be tempting to respond to people’s harmful actions by denying their identity as Christians. We should resist this temptation. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, ...

In Joy Harjo’s 2015 poetry collection, "Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings," there’s a poem called “Rabbit Is Up to Tricks” about the origin of human folly. “Rabbit” molds and breathes life into the ...

FLINT, MI -- Kameron Motley, who grew up on the city’s north side, identifies with the word “Fearless.” It’s a mentality that you have to have as a student with lofty goals from Flint, a city that is ...

Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, and behold, the skin of his face was radiant. They were afraid to approach him. ~ Exodus 34:30 this glow of history and promise. It frightens the neighbors.

"Tis harder knowing fear is due / Than knowing it is here," sings neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux with his band The Amygdaloids. The song, an adaptation of Emily Dickinson's poem "While we were fearing, ...

If you besiege a city for many days, to wage war against it in order to capture it, you must not destroy its fruit trees by wielding an ax against them… ~ Deuteronomy 20:19 tearing out or cutting down ...

Poetry addresses many of our most commonly experienced human challenges and has the power to foster resilience, hope, and ...