It seems that nothing -- not even divorce -- can keep two people meant to be together apart. Just consider Australian couple Rocco and Estelle Dil...
Estelline says her participation in performances of her local culture club "helps the audience, especially those who became orphans because this shows...
My mother died on January 5, 2010. She was 101 years old. Our long association had been troubled from the time of my birth, and throughout my life, I'd found it challenging to choose cards for Mother's Day. So many expressed a gratitude and devotion I couldn't feel.
The Rev. Michael Lapsley barely survived a letter bomb attack by agents of the South African apartheid government who sought to kill him. The bomb exploded in his hands. In the wake of the recent Boston bombings, he reflects on his own experience of physical and psychological healing.
We all know the commandment, "Honor thy father and mother." We've also been schooled to respect our elders. But we also know reality. Older people may have less energy than the young, but they have more resources, such as life experience.
In our fast-paced highly connected world, we see all too often abuse of the Internet as a means for wide-spread gossip, lies and hurtful behavior. How beautiful it is indeed when the energy of this powerful tool can be harnessed to promote healing and friendship.
Would you forgive a cheating spouse? Though some succumb to the belief, "once a cheater, always a cheater," others find a way to look past their pa...
We all know that getting back together with your ex is generally a bad idea. (Research even confirms it!) But if you really gave it some thought, a...
Jean Harris' work at the prison was hard-hitting, yet she was just about the last person I had expected to inspire me in such a powerful way. The only time I had heard of Jean Harris before this was on the front page of the Post, where she was portrayed as a cold-blooded murderess.
Mahatma Gandhi's granddaughter has spent her life as the custodian of his legacy in South Africa as well as the caretaker of Phoenix Settlement. I recently had the opportunity to meet with her.
Should you rekindle your relationship?
As we look into the New Year, it is also time to look back and see which governments might free a prisoner or two due to the decline of age or ill health.
The romance and passion you knew when you first met can be re-kindled. The spark of your early love can grow brighter and into a more profound experience that is truly lifelong and rewarding.
We are deeply imprinted by the suffering we have caused others. In the Buddhist teachings, such sensitivity can be intelligent and healthy -- it plays an important role in awakening and freeing our hearts.
One of life's most difficult situations is when someone you love is no longer present in your life due to disagreements, especially during the holidays.
The tension builds as the two brothers, accompanied by hundreds of followers, move toward each other: "And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him." Differing regimes of interpretation raise urgent questions for us.
The world needs welcoming congregations that are focused on the work of reconciliation -- now more than ever.
Like a musical note seeking union with the harmony of itself, the soul returns to human form, to earth, in order to heal and integrate into a more perfect remembrance of the divinity of love it already is.
As we look to the past, we remember a day when towers fell, and buildings blew apart, a day when hatred seemed to have the final say, and we as a country were amazed at our own "failure of imagination."
May we rest, sleep with the angels, and then wake up to a new day ready to reconcile and reorder this complicated world toward the common good.
Two people may love each other very much, but wanting to be together and being able to be together are two completely different things.
The world needs to celebrate the progress that has occurred and honor those who have taken this country that was broken and devastated only 18 years ago to the top of the development charts in human progress.
Despite announcing their split late last year, NBA star Kobe Bryant and his estranged wife, Vanessa, may not be going through with their divorce a...
Too often when considering injustice, we want perfect victims -- the victim who did nothing to provoke others, whose moral code remains unblemished. But if justice were the privilege of the perfect, there wouldn't be much need for it.
For Father's Day, I have scoured SecretRegrets.com and chosen eight of the most heartfelt and heartbreaking "Dear Dad" secret regrets from divorced households.
