Practicing mindfulness can help us hold space for the complex emotions tied to racism and discrimination. Recognizing our shared vulnerability fosters compassion even for those we disagree with.

If you do choose to speak with her, express your gratitude for her support after your mother’s death, and approach the ...

Mark Zuckerberg's Meta AI app has become the saddest place on the internet with its public feed of personal overshares.

“The point of my going away is that immeasurably more will open up. If I don’t go, the Holy Spirit won’t come,” says Jesus, ...

Notice that none of this requires you to believe in God yourself. It is simply not necessary. What I’m asking you to do is ...

Michael Pedersen, Edinburgh’s Makar or Poet Laureate, reflects on the city and its artistic riches as he searches for its soul ...

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For decades, Eve Baer remained convinced that her son, unresponsive after a severe brain injury, was still conscious. Science ...

Snippets of poetry have provided writer Irene Latham enough wisdom to fill a book. She shares several in this week's column.

But what if Beth's death was not the tragic result of an illness, but murder? In Beth Is Dead, a new YA thriller out Jan. 6, ...

By the canal, I felt an overwhelming and visceral sense that I had stumbled upon the place where a man had raped me at knifepoint forty years earlier.

The Independent’s Pride List is back again, celebrating the LGBT+ community’s biggest pioneers over the past 12 months ...