The mere act of witnessing character, virtue, beauty, and truth tickles our vagus nerve, which stimulates oxytocin production and evokes in us the desire to be better people living better lives.

Love leading to good works is not necessarily a doomed course; and doomed or not, is good in and of itself.

In the name of living our yoga, we spend more money on organic items, buy fair-trade and goods made in the USA, and we donate our old yoga mats to tho...

Jobs have been lost and homes have been lost, but if Dr. Alan Singer can help it marriages will not be lost to this recession. Singer is a family t...

We asked for you, our readers, to tell us how you or someone you know is serving the community and you sent in stories of volunteerism from across the...

One man is attempting to change the way we think of volunteering. He doesn't think volunteering should be difficult. There's no need to break a sweat...

Islam is the religion of peace, love and tolerance. However, nowadays certain circles are trying to give Islamic morality the wrong image. The religio...

Like ripples circling outward in a pond, individual acts of kindness, taken together, can have world-changing effects. We asked Beliefnet users to des...