New Year’s resolutions
The key to keeping those New Year’s resolutions? Make it about somebody else.
By Yonat Shimron — January 4, 2024
(RNS) — Experts say a core spiritual practice — even if it's only a few minutes a day — and a commitment to working with others are key to keeping resolutions.
Stay alive in the meantime: Notes at the top of 2022
By Danté Stewart — January 13, 2022
(RNS) — To be completely honest, I thought this year would begin not with questions but with resolutions.
For New Year’s resolutions, better health ranks higher than God, family or money
By Bob Smietana — December 28, 2021
(RNS) — About a quarter of Americans say they want to work on their finances and relationship with God, according to a new Lifeway Research survey.
Ready to try an old approach to a New Year’s resolution? The story of Saint Ignatius may provide some guidance
By Gordon Rixon — January 4, 2021
(The Conversation) — Making and breaking New Year’s resolutions is a familiar and discouraging annual ritual for many people. The problem is most people set out with their resolutions without identifying a practical path for the journey.
How to make a pilgrimage into 2021
By Wes Granberg-Michaelson — December 31, 2020
(RNS) — We walk forward into unknown terrain, not certain of what we will encounter, but learning to trust that hospitable grace will sustain us.
The spirituality hiding in our self-help New Year’s resolutions
By Tara Isabella Burton — January 11, 2019
(RNS) — In the rhetoric of self-improvement, ridding ourselves of the old year's bad energy is a matter of social, physical and emotional health. But the notion is loaded with spiritual significance.
In 2014, let’s stop saying “atheists are immoral” and “believers are stupid”
By Chris Stedman — January 8, 2014
Imagine what we could achieve if we moved beyond name-calling and making dismissive statements about the “other,” and instead put our heads and hearts together to heal our shared world.
My worst New Year’s Eve ever . . . one year later
By Jana Riess — December 31, 2013
The month of January is named for the Roman god Janus, the god of two faces—one looking forward, the other gazing back. Whatever your dreams are for the coming year, may you be able to gaze at the past without regret and the future without fear.
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