com•pas•sion We reach out to those in pain, take in stray animals and dash off our checks to help strangers suffering across the globe. Humans are compassionate toward those in need. In fact, considerable scientific research suggests, we may actually be compelled to be compassionate. “Our human compassion binds us the one to the other – not in pity or patronizingly, but ashuman beings who have learnt how to turn
The world’s oldest cities date back more than 10,000 years, but humans actually began living together in small communities, or villages much earlier. Like the inhabitants of the oldest known village, which dates back 20,000 years on the southwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee in Israel, humans band together. They are driven to make their communities better. So what makes a good community? Human beings probably began to wonder about that
Pets: Making a Connection That’s Healthy for Humans We feed them, groom them and sometimes even dress them. We coddle them in a multitude of ways, taking great pains to make sure they are healthy and worry when they are not. When they pass on, the loss for many is as profound as any other. Perhaps we do so much for our pets because, according to a variety of sources,
Members of the women’s volleyball team at Azusa Pacific University shouted and flashed plenty of the usual signals during a close game in the fall of 2007, but a peculiar one proved to be their secret weapon that day. “Link up, link up!” the players on the sideline yelled to their teammates out on the court. Everybody on the team knew the meaning of this verbal admonition: Time for a
