The New Science of Forgiveness

By Everett L. Worthington Jr. | September 1, 2004 Everett L. Worthington, Jr. has dedicated his career to the study of forgiveness. He has found that it carries tremendous health and social benefits—and he’s taken his research to heart....

How To Forgive, And Why You Should

By Angela Haupt for U.S. News HealthThe deepest wounds feel like they’ll last a lifetime: The absent mother who robbed you of the mother-daughter bond you craved and deserved. The eighth-grade bully who turned the classroom into a living nightmare. The...

How Jealousy Works

BY ALIA HOYT  Of all the emotions humans show, jealousy is one of the most common and unsettling. It tends to bring out the worst in us, even though most of us know better. It’s an age-old problem, having been recorded since biblical times, and no...

Jealousy spot on the brain identified by scientists

The area of the brain which controls jealousy has been found, scientists have ­announced.​It is the same part which detects real physical pain – perhaps explaining why feeling envious of your lover’s philandering ways hurts so much.‘It’s interesting the part of the...

Jealousy – What saith the Scriptures?

KJV Num 5:14  And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:  Webmaster note:  I have...

You Can Inherit Loneliness

By Melissa Dahl Loneliness is an emotion that doesn’t always make a lot of sense. Two people may have very similar social lives, and yet one might feel isolated more often than the other — even when surrounded by people they know and love, who know and love them...

Did Jesus Die of a Broken Heart?

Here’s some psychological, biblical and historical evidence to provide some support that Jesus died from the “broken heart syndrome” (technically a psychosomatic phenomena called “stress-induced cardiomyopathy“).Psychological StudiesOlder couples that have...

Tongues on the Mind

By Constance Holden​For a practice that’s been around for thousands of years, scientists understand very little about what goes on when people “speak in tongues.” Currently, glossolalia–as it’s called–can be found in...

God, Family, and Genetics – A Biblical Perspective

This article is taken from the proceedings of the symposium ‘The Two Shall Become One’ held in Rome in September 2015, jointly sponsored by Human Life International and the Kolbe Center for the Study of Creation. God, Family, and Genetics – A Biblical Perspective Part...

VOODOO DEATH

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Voodoo death, a term coined by Walter Cannon in 1942 also known as psychogenic death or psychosomatic death, is the phenomenon of sudden death as brought about by a strong emotional shock, such...