The 28th of November is World Compassion Day and an opportunity to reflect on the meaning of compassion. I have come to see compassion as something active, full of movement, and formed of different ...

Compassion has never once waited for the right moment. When hope runs quietly out and the heart feels too heavy to expect ...

Readings: Exodus 34:4b-6, 8-9; Daniel 3, R. Glory and praise for ever!; 2 Corinthians 13:11-13; Gospel – John 3: 16-18 One of my cherished images of the Holy Trinity is from the meditation of St.

Hersh Shefrin is the Mario L. Belotti Professor of Finance at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business and a faculty scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. A ...

Journalist and broadcaster Krista Tippett argues that overtly saintly and sappy connotations have made us lose touch with the true meaning of compassion — so she proposes a linguistic revival.