loneliness
Hiking, disc golf, flower arranging: UMC initiative connects people around non-church interests
By Yonat Shimron — April 19, 2024
NORWOOD, N.C. (RNS) — 'Fresh Expressions' is a denominational initiative intended to connect people who may not be interested in church but are interested in learning a new skill or making new friends.
The Bible suggests even God gets lonely. Why don’t religious people talk more about it?
By Dwight Lee Wolter — January 18, 2024
(RNS) — There is much to be learned from loneliness: prophecy, solidarity, fun, freedom — even creativity.
Why the Israel rally in DC mattered
By Jeffrey Salkin — November 15, 2023
(RNS) — A historic day and its placards tell a very big Jewish story.
More Americans stay away from church as pandemic nears year three
By Bob Smietana — January 5, 2023
(RNS) — Many Americans already had dropped out of church life before the pandemic. COVID-19 gave them a reason to let go completely, according to a new survey.
What do the lonely do at Christmas?
By Candice Marie Benbow — December 19, 2022
(RNS) — Now, more than ever, people are becoming comfortable sharing their grief and longing during the holidays.
As a country we’re in need of healing. Here’s how Shabbat can help.
By Aliza Kline — September 28, 2022
(RNS) — The ancient Jewish ritual of Shabbat, especially Friday night dinners, can help young adults navigate the obstacles to well-being.
SoulCycle’s Peoplehood offers a gig-economy cure for loneliness
By Tara Isabella Burton — June 4, 2022
(RNS) — Intimate connection for urban dwellers may be the modern answer to pandemic loneliness.
This One’s for the Lonely
By Roxanne Stone — November 10, 2021
Ekemini Uwan joins to discuss the difference between solitude and loneliness — how we can lean into being alone and also seek meaningful connection.
What Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ can teach us about reentering the world after a year of isolation
By Joel Christensen — April 26, 2021
(The Conversation) — As the pandemic has dragged on, I've returned to reunited Odysseus and Penelope's conversation.
The loneliness pandemic: The elderly in ICUs battle coronavirus and solitude
By Claire Giangravé — April 20, 2020
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Many elderly, less nimble with modern means of communication, are particularly at risk of feeling alone.
Helping the vulnerable at risk for assisted suicide
By Charles C. Camosy — December 30, 2019
(RNS) — Physician-assisted suicide is one of the few issues that doesn't fall into the well-worn grooves of the culture wars. For that reason, we have a chance to resist it.
Pope Francis urges Japanese to address suicide, depression in Tokyo speech
By Claire Giangravé — November 23, 2019
TOKYO (RNS) — Francis also urged the country's bishops to cater to young people in particular, as they are the most prone to suicide and “thirsting for compassion."
James K.A. Smith: St. Augustine might just be the therapist we need today
By Roxanne Stone — October 11, 2019
NEW YORK (RNS) — 'There are ways in which we've set freedom up so that almost everything we imagine as freedom turns into addictions,' said Smith in an interview with Religion News Service about his new book, 'On the Road With Saint Augustine.'
Cohousing communities hope to offer antidote to America’s epidemic of loneliness
By Steve Rabey — April 22, 2019
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (RNS) — In a time of social isolation and loneliness, cohousing communities are on the rise. Residents say life together has challenges but offers many rewards.
What the joyous solitude of early hermits can teach us about being alone
By The Conversation — February 8, 2018
(The Conversation) — Loneliness (feeling alone) and solitude (being alone) are not the same thing. And lessons can be learned from those who have found solitude essential for inspiration.
Page 1 of 1
