These empty substitutes for authentic yearnings of our human hearts create inescapable cycles of striving and working harder and longer, using the same tools over and over -- tools that are actually designed not to work.

It amazes me that in a nation that claims to be so spiritual, the seven deadly "sins" first identified by Evagagrius Ponticus have become pastimes and oftentimes objects of desire instead of loathing.

Do you remember the old folk ballad Down By the River Side - The one that has the line "I ain't gonna study war no more"? What if everyone studied Love instead? What would life be like?

Mirror, mirror, on the wall! Who's the vainest of them all? Yesterday, while doing something decidedly un-vain, my thoughts happened to stumble upon ...

So, the Vatican updated their seven deadly sins to include some present-day trespasses that fall a little more in line with the issues facing us in th...

1,500 years after listing the original seven deadly sins, the Vatican announced on Sunday that polluting, genetic engineering, obscene riches, taking ...